MTCS High Voltage Training Supports Enshore’s New JETs
A new generation of equipment technicians has benefitted from ROV High Voltage Training provided by leading offshore energy sector and competence management specialists MTCS.
The JETs (Junior Equipment Technicians) are part of the
growing team at Port of Blyth-based Enshore Subsea, who provide
seabed services to global oil and gas, telecoms, defence and offshore power generation organisations.
Enshore own and operate an impressive array of innovative subsea vehicles including tracked mechanical trenchers, jet trenching vehicles and a high-performance power cable plough (PCP).
With an operational background of over 25-years in these highly specialised areas of activity, Enshore can rightly boast to have ‘the largest track record of subsea trenching of anybody in the industry’ and have trenched many thousands of kilometres of pipelines and cables for the offshore industries.
They can also include the world’s largest pipeline plough, the Advanced Multi Pass (AMP1500), and the largest tracked trenching vehicle, the powerful and sophisticated T3200, amongst their innovative portfolio of vehicles.
“MTCS were approached at the start of 2022 by Enshore who were seeking dedicated High Voltage training for their latest cohort of JETS at their facilities at Port of Blyth.” Comments Richard Warburton, Managing Director at MTCS (UK) Ltd.
“The vast majority of the training we have facilitated over recent years has been distance learning via our dedicated portal, MTCS Online, with both individuals and employers appreciating the convenience of this approach and the minimal impact it has on day-to-day activities.”
“However, there are certainly instances where face-to-face training in a classroom with practical elements in a workshop help us to better impart the information and for the learning to be quickly appreciated, embedded and retained by the trainee.”
The group of three JETs undertook the MTCS ROV High Voltage Training Course at Enshore’s facilities at the Port of Blyth over a period of 2 days, following the Knowledge and Practical stages with electrical isolations carried-out under the supervision of MTCS and Enshore’s own technical authorities.
Richard Warburton is quick to illustrate the importance of the training and ongoing competence certification, and gives an indication of the type of vehicles the Junior Technicians will be working with:
“You just need to look at Enshore’s incredible T1 and T2 Tracked Mechanical and Jet Trenching Vehicles which are used for the burial of pipelines, flowlines, umbilical and submarine cables. These machines have upwards of 500kW of total power.”
“Whether onshore or subsea, they can trench to a depth of over a metre when in cutter wheel mode, or to three metres in ‘jetting’ mode.”
“Enshore’s commitment to their clients is not only by providing the services of these incredible machines but also through their ongoing investment in their personnel. The training these young technicians have undertaken will be a benchmark moment and something upon which they can build their learning, experience and personal development wherever their career takes them.”
The MTCS ROV High Voltage Course has been designed to give personnel a detailed understanding of High Voltage safety with learning created to both reflect industry best practice and current legislation, whilst satisfying IMCA R005 – Guidance on safety procedures for isolation of ROV high voltage equipment (above 1㎸).
The online training course can be completed offshore and requires the candidate to research their own systems and procedures.
The course includes a practical assessment that can be completed under supervision by a technical authority, either offshore or in a suitably equipped workshop. The practical assessment also requires the candidate to conduct an electrical isolation, in accordance with their company procedures.