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Why No Training To The OGP Burning Standard?

    OGPEditB 0002 (2014 08 24 20 25 53 UTC)

    The basic requirements for a diver qualifying to the OGP Oxy-arc underwater cutting Recommended Practice come straight out of The Devon Standard and the Oceans Technology OXY ARC Burning Course. Those are no problem, the problem is: As currently published it over reaches: #1 anyone that wants to qualify burners has to use the OGP Diving Recommended Practice Report No. 411. Fine if you’re a major diving company working the oil patch for one of the OGP Oil Companies. Not good at all for a small Dive Company working the harbors, rivers and lakes. That's still where most of the diving is done.

From day one of over a year and half process, they were told that if they did not fund the first Qualifying of a Course and Instructors to their recommend practice, it would fail. It was published June 2012 almost two and a half years ago. No Course or Instructors Qualified to their Recommend practice.The shame of this is: In the recommendation to the OGP Dive Safety Sup-Committee was the following

“Presenting
the Information/Tool Box

How we present the information in the OGP Oxy Arc Tool Box is critical. Training Divers is half the battle, training the planers and company representative is the other half. We strongly recommend that we use the computer tools we have at our disposal to make this information available to the training facilities in a user friendly manner.

The key component is having qualified instructors ready to teach when the OGP Tool Box is Complete; 12 divers qualified on Tubular, Exothermic, Swordfish type and Gouging Rods. While these candidate instructors are being qualified they will accomplish three things we need to complete the tool box.

1.
While they are being trained the explosive gases for each type of rod will be captured and tested, against inches of steel burned per-rod. Exothermic Rods will be tested for inches of steel burned per-rod and hydrogen created, burning both Hot and Cold. This information will be compiled and presented in chart form for planners of burning operations.
(currently no one can tell how much hydrogen each rod creates in the burning process)

2.
Everything
will be videoed: Set up & check out of equipment, dry burning and wet burning and some class room presentations. From what is shot, while training instructors, a new training video would be made. The current training video is outdated and depicts techniques we can no longer use, such as, burning on a well conductor. The video is an important part of training and needs to be replaced. One area in which the current Video that is weak: Oxygen Safety. The new Video needs to address that issue not only in relation to underwater but on surface as well.

3.
At
the end of the classes,
the Qualified Instructors will suggest addition and revisions for both the written course and the practical training.
If
we
go
about
it in this manner, when we roll out the OGP tool box, we will have a polished product. Ready to provide training and testing for as many divers as might be necessary.
”

If they had followed what was recommended we would have Divers, Supervisors and Company Representatives in the field trained over a year ago.

More Impotent; a course with information that
the planers and company representative have never had!
Their recommend practice calls for the instructors to have a minimum ten years diving experience. Good, I promise you, 12 divers with 10 years of diving experience would recommend all the, Over Reaching, out of the OGP Recommend Practice.


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