Elevate Offshore specialise in the provision of survey, ROV and inspection personnel to the offshore oil and gas, renewables, telecoms and power industries.

And as we put decades of industry experience and expertise to work on behalf of clients and contractors alike, we do things our way: a genuinely distinctive approach that’s all about adding extra value. We build a unique understanding of the challenges, priorities and opportunities of our clients, so we’re putting the right people into the right roles to help you deliver on your operational or project objectives. And we create sustainable relationships with our contractors, focusing on your interests, growing your skills and maintaining a highly flexible contracting strategy.

The course was held centrally in the UK to optimise take up and equalise travel arrangements for all at the Cadbury/ Bourneville Room, Somerset House in central Birmingham, providing excellent support, training aids and hospitality. Elevate themselves providing high class luncheon hospitality each day.

An Elevate evening of excellent entertainment at the Flight Club added to the 3-day training experience.

Subjects covered included – Professionalism, Communications, Continuity of actions, Document control, PM procedures & process (Prince 2 flow), Tendering & Commercials (best practise), Fit for purpose resourcing (vessels, equipment, personnel, software etc.), Client meetings & liaison, Client negotiations, Project legal/ contractual interaction & liaison, Department & management colleague liaison, Project preparations (kick off meetings client & internal, site visit, sub contractors meetings, audits etc.), Project HIRA/ Risk and QHSE liaison, Project pre job briefings/ inductions, PM project visibility, Project actions, Project daily interaction & liaison/ reporting and comms protocols (client, sub cons, offshore and office), Project schedule tracking & impacts, Project resource tracking, Project cost control & reporting, Project washups/ lessons learned.

A special mention to Anthony Williams, Technical Manager at Elevate Offshore for making all the local arrangements whilst acting as a superb event host.

The 11 (eleven) attendeees contributed to a highly enjoybale lecturing experience over the 3 days with focus, interaction and considerable sounding board/ discussion sessions throughout. All personnel were from a multitude of senior disciplines and roles in the marine survey sector – with thanks to Anthony Willaims, Phillip Wilding, Daniel Graham, David Eggleston, Marcin Dmochowski, Svetlana Klockova, Jhosa Keetley, Christopher Cain, Sean Quirk, Lucy Martin, Ffion Blundell.

S4 (an Innovatum Group Company) provide marine survey & subsea inspection services & solutions to the marine survey/ geoscience and offshore energy sectors, including full survey support from tender phase to full operations & delivery (survey & positioning, MBES, geophysical, geotechnical,
pUXO and ROV subsea inspection), project management, tender support, sub cable DTS & feasibility studies, sub cable route engineering, training & personnel development.