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September-October 2010

Hydro-technical and civil constructions

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OFFSHORE CONSTRUCTION

PROJECTS – AkCAkOCA, DLS, GALATA –

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20 GsP JuPiter concluded the drilling operations in Kavarna East perimeter

23 GsP saturn: drilling operations in the Mediterranean Sea

24 a new exercise conducted by GSP Orion OSR

28 GsP OriOn: Successfully completed rescue mission

30 dLs PrOJect, BLack sea, russian FederatiOn

34 OFFshOre cOnstructiOns: the completion of Akcakoca platform installation works

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46 GsP BiGFOOt 1 at the BeGinninG OF a new PrOJect. The subsea pipe installation operations at the Galata platform have commenced

52 hydrO-technicaL and civiL cOnstructiOns dePartment

54 GsP traininG center

58 cristineLa Budin, the new chieF human resOurces OFFice : „I like to get involved and to find development opportunities for young people with potential.“

61 OFFshOre driLLers and saiLOrs in solidarity with the flood victims of Ceatalchioi, Tulcea

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June 29, 2010GSP OriOn entered under a new cOntract with BM GuSt, BulGariaThe supply vessel, classified under DnV (Det Norske Veritas) register, + 1A1, DnV +1A1 Supply vessel OILREC SF EO DINAPOS-AUT will perform offshore supply services for MODU GSP Jupiter. From 2009, GSP Orion is the pollution response capability (OSR / Oil Spill Recovery) vessel, under EMSA (European Maritime Safety Agency) coordination, covering the European Union border at the Black Sea. The new offshore service contract allows the vessel to mobilize within 24 hours for oil spill recovery interventions if necessary.

June 29, 2010the jacket faBricated in GSP ShiPyard left aGiGea POrt headinG tO akcakOca fieldThe 101 meters long steel jacket fabricated in GSP Shipyard under a TPAO (Turkish Petroleum) contract for the second development phase of the natural gas reserve in Akcakoca field, Western Black Sea, has left the port heading to the installation location. The steel construction was loaded out and sea fastened onboard the semi-submersible

barge GSP Bigfoot 2. The jacket installation will be performed with the support of GSP Neptun, the 1800 tons floating crane, already on the location, and the accommodation, work, and heavy lift (400 tons) barge GSP Bigfoot 3. The barge already completed the first subsea operation by installing the new template.

July 2nd, 2010GSP inStalled the hiGheSt Steel jacket faBricated fOr the Black SeaThe 1300 tons and 101 meters long steel jacket fabricated by GSP is installed in Akcakoca field. The operation preparative campaign included planning, implementation and qualification of the transport and installation procedures, qualification of welding procedures as well as testing and certification of offshore welders, as well as jacket buoyancy calculation and unload procedure, lifting equipment certification.The jacket installation operation was carried out in maximum safety conditions and highest regards for environmental preservation and protection.The steel jacket installation consisted in the unload from GSP Bigfoot 2, the detachment of the lifting equipment, the removal of the buoyancy bags and the

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controlled flooding of the jacket legs with the support of the Triton XLX ROV, erection and approach of the location and the lowering of the construction on the matching template previously installed on the bottom of the sea by the SAT divers.For the operation, GSP, the offshore construction project contractor, has mobilized over 350 offshore specialists and a complex fleet of technical and support vessels, including: GSP Bigfoot 3, an accommodation and work barge for offshore operations, GSP Neptun, heavy lift crane (1800 tones), GSP Bigfoot 2, semi-submersible heavy lift transport barge, GSP Queen, ROV support vessel, GSP Licorn, supply ship, Boa Magnitor, AHT, Agat, AHT, P4 flat-top ocean going transport barge, and Aran.Within a timeframe of 20 days, the jacket will be fixed and reinforced during the piling operation (operation consisting in the introduction of the pillars through the jacket legs, in order to secure and strengthen the offshore construction).

July 6th, 2010GSP juPiter entered under a new cOntractGSP Jupiter is carrying out drilling operations on the Bulgarian continental shelf for Melrose Resources.GSP’s offshore drilling rig operates in Kavarna East offshore perimeter, located between Kaliakra and Kavarna gas fields.GSP Orion, OSR, renders the offshore supply services for the duration of the drilling campaign.

July 25th, 2010GSP SucceSSfully cOMPleted the lOad Out OPeratiOn Of the akcakOca PlatfOrM tOPSideThe topside for the second phase of the Akcakoca field development was fabricated within GSP Shipyard.The load out operation was carried out under the supervision of the project management team and the beneficiary’s representatives. GSP Neptun, the 1800

tons heavy lift crane barge, performed the load out of the double-decked topside onboard GSP Bigfoot 2, the semisubmersible barge.The sea fastening activities are currently carried out in order to ensure the safe transportation of the steel construction to the installation location, in Western Black Sea. The design of sea fastening as well as the preparation of drawings and preparation of transportation manuals were previously submitted to the client’s and surveyor’s approvals.A complex GSP fleet of technical vessels, offshore support vessels and an extensive professional body are mobilized in Akcakoca perimeter in order to proceed with the topsides installation activities.The main function of the offshore modular platform topside’s facilities will be to support a drilling rig and test well streams from the platform wells. After the installation of the platform, the modular self contained drilling rig installed onto the platform’s main deck shall complete the two existing wells and drill new directional wells. After the completion of these wells, the platform will operate as a wellhead platform, testing and transmitting the produced gas to the Cayagzi Plant through the offshore pipeline.The topsides facilities developed for 95M water depth will support up to 6 well conductors with well testing and possible future gas compression, four risers and

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three I-tubes (for 4 ½” or larger umbilical) for future subsea tie-ins located at east, west, and south sides and a 12.75 OD pipeline.

August 17th, 2010GSP Prince PerfOrMS the Pre-lay Survey fOr the develOPMent Of Galata PlatfOrM in the BulGarian cOntinental Shelf Of the Black SeaGSP Prince, the diving & ROV support vessel performs the pre-lay subsea survey within the offshore pipeline installation contract for the development of the Galata field, on the Bulgarian continental shelf of the Black Sea.The pre-lay subsea survey operations will be carried out, according to the schedule, in 10 days.The pipelay operations are scheduled to start immediately. GSP Bigfoot 1, the pipelay and heavy lift barge, is scheduled to sail from Constanta Port towards the location on the 1st of September.GSP is the general contractor for Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication and Installation of an 8.5 km 6” pipeline from Galata platform to Kavarna 2 well head, and a 14.5 km 10” pipeline from

Galata platform to Kaliakra 2 well head and the associated piggy backed liquid lines, at an average water depth of 80m within the contract GSP concluded with Melrose Resources, one of the Company’s traditional beneficiaries.

August 19th, 2010GSP SucceSSfully cOMPleted the tOPSide inStallatiOn Of the larGeSt OffShOre PlatfOrM in the Black SeaGSP is the general contractor within the offshore EPIC (engineering, procurement, installation & commissioning) project for Türkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortaklığı (TPAO), the national oil and gas company of Turkey.The installation operation was successfully completed at 00.20 a.m., the topside being safely positioned on the 101 meters steel jacket, in Akcakoca perimeter, offshore Turkey, in the north western part of the Black Sea.The double deck topside was transported to the location onboard GSP Bigfoot 2. The platform installation was performed with the help of GSP

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Neptun, the 1800 tons heavy lift crane moored to GSP Bigfoot 3, the spacer barge barge P4 and GSP Bigfoot 2, the semisubmersible barge. After removing the welded seafastening, the steel double deck platform was lifted from the semisubmersible barge GSP Bigfoot 2 and GSP Neptun lowered the topside and stab cones in the jacket piles. The topside will be welded to the jacket, according to the procedures.GSP has mobilized a complex fleet of technical and support vessels, including: GSP Bigfoot 3 (accommodation and work barge for offshore operations), GSP Neptun (heavy lift crane, 1800 tones), GSP Bigfoot 2 (semi-submersible heavy lift transport barge), GSP Queen (ROV support vessel), GSP Licorn (supply ship), Agat (AHT), P4 flat-top ocean going transport barge, and Aran.The 101 meters steel jacket installation was followed by the pile installation with: foundation pile and conductor installation,

grouting operation (the main and the skirt piles being grouted to the jacket), pile cut-off, and miscellaneous completion activities. These activities were performed according to the project schedule. The top side installation operation will be followed by the completion activities.

September 1st, 2010GSP OriOn rePOrtS the reScue Of 17 SeaMenGSP Orion, PSV & OSR, performed the rescue operation of the 17 seamen onboard a Turkish cargo vessel in the Black Sea.The 17 crew members recovered from the cargo vessel Medy are all in good health, no injuries being reported.GSP Orion was mobilized around 4:45, being instructed to head approximately 10 nautical miles away from Constanta Port, and safely recovered the 17 crew members. At 5:40 a.m. GSP Orion moored near the potentially sinking

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vessel, transferring the Turkish crew onboard.The vessel dangerously tilted to the port side either due to the bad weather or a loading error will be subject to refloating attempts.The mission completed today is not a first for GSP’s fleet: GSP King has previously completed other two successful rescue missions in the Black Sea.GSP Orion is a supply vessel, classified under DnV (Det Norske Veritas), + 1A1, DnV +1A1 Supply vessel OILREC SF EO DINAPOS-AUT. The vessel is from 2009 the pollution response capability (OSR / Oil Spill Recovery) under EMSA (European Maritime Safety Agency) coordination, covering the European Union border at the Black Sea.

September 9th, 2010event – GSP tO ParticiPate at adiPec 2010Grup Servicii Petroliere is proud to announce its participation in ADIPEC 2010, to be held in Abu Dhabi from 1-4

November.The event is one of the largest and most acclaimed oil and gas shows in the world, which brings together exhibitors with their extensive ranges of products and services and international visitors.GSP`s experts will be present at the stand (04040) to present the latest projects as well as the complete range of services our company provides worldwide and the advanced solutions aimed at specifically addressing the needs of the Oil and Gas industry.

September 20th, 2010 GSP BiGfOOt 1arrived On lOcatiOn fOr the PiPelay OPeratiOnS at Galata PlatfOrMGSP Bigfoot 1 has reached the operations location near the Galata Platform, on the Bulgarian continental shelf of the Black Sea. The technical vessel entered under contract with Melrose Resources for subsea pipelay operations. GSP is the general contractor

GSP Bigfoot 1. Pipeline installation works at Galata Platform

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for engineering, procurement, fabrication and installation of two submarine pipelines with piggyback lines.GSP Bigfoot 1 shall install 8.5 kilometers of 6-inch diameter pipeline, 14.5 kilometers of 10-inch diameter pipeline as well as two secondary 1-inch diameter pipelines. The subsea pipelines will connect the Kavarna-2 and Kaliakra-2 subsea wellheads to Galata Platform. The 1-inch lines will be strapped to the main 10-inch and 6-inch lines by means of piggyback blocks. The water depth along the pipeline route varies from 36 m to 80 m. The pipelines cross existing telecommunication cables, and protective 6 m x 3 m x 0.3 m concrete mattress were installed by GSP Prince in March in order to maintain clearance between pipeline and cable, the current depth of burial being of 1.5 m. The technical vessel GSP Bigfoot 1 was towed by GSP Vega, AHT. GSP also mobilized for the operations in the Bulgarian national waters GSP Prince, for DSV & ROV support, GSP Orion, AHT, and Amber II. GSP Bigfoot 3 will mobilize for the SAT diving works.

October GSP traininG center annOunceS PartnerShiP with Gl acadeMy fOr hiGh quality MaritiMe traininG, SeMinarS StartinG in nOveMBerGSP Training Center and GL Academy launches this November modular maritime training seminars.Our new training offer addresses to Shipping and Crewing Agencies, Offshore Service Companies, Shipyards, port operating organizations. The courses are GL Academy certified. GSP Training Center is your partner in ensuring high quality training. We ensure through our offer the best performance of your personnel, at internationally accepted standards.The maritime training seminars to start

this November are:Introduction to the system of maritime regulations/ Basic/ 1 dayLatest amendments to maritime regulations/ Advanced/ 0,5 dayPort State Control/ Basic 0,5 day Implementation workshop ILO Maritime Labour Convention/ Advanced/ 2,0 day Basics ISO 9001:2008 for shipping companies/ Basic/ 1,0 dayInternal Auditor ISM/ ISO 9001:2008 for shipping companies/ Advanced/ 2.0 day Company/ Ship Security Officer (CSO/SSO) training course/ Advanced plus/ 2.0 day ISM 2010 amendments/ Advanced/ 0,5 daySTCW 2010 amendments / Basic/ 0,5 day GSP Training Center delivers the courses in Romanian, English and Russian, according to the client’s demands.

OctoberGSP annOunceS the cOMPletiOn Of the PiPeline inStallatiOn activitieS at Galata PlatfOrM fOr MelrOSe reSOurceSGSP Bigfoot 1 has completed the installation of the 10-in and 6-in pipeline at Galata Platform.According to the contract with Melrose Resources, the technical vessel installed 8.5 kilometers of 6-inch diameter pipeline, 14.5 kilometers of 10-inch diameter pipeline, as well as two secondary 1-inch diameter pipelines.The subsea pipelines connect the Kavarna-2 and Kaliakra-2 subsea wellheads to Galata Platform.The technical vessel returned to Constanta Sud – Agigea port and prepares for new pipeline operations.GSP Bigfoot 3, the 300 men work and heavy lift technical vessel, carries out the completion operations and testing. The vessel is assisted by GSP Queen and Amber II.

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GSP ShiPyardAs the trend during the second semester in the naval constructions’ domain is the one of growth, as proven by both the number of orders and the values of the new contracts at international level, GSP Shipyard becomes a greater interest object for the regional. GSP Shipyard has the advantage that, within an industrial landscape scattered with companies having similar profile, it offers services in the offshore constructions domain, assuring the steel structures’ fabrication in accordance with the standards requested by the offshore oil industry. Having a professional body specialized in the field of steel fabrication and special welding, GSP Shipyard takes pride in the completion of some works of significance contributing to the energetic balance of the Black Sea region.The fabrication of jacket and of modular two decked platform for the second development stage of the exploitation of Akcakoca natural gas field, the fabrication of components for the subsea pipes installed by GSP Bigfoot 1 along the shores of Bulgaria, Russia and Turkey on the Black Sea’s continental shelves, with a technical vessel new-build project (GSP Bigfoot 1) and a series of technical vessels’ modernization, reclassification and reactivation projects, allowed GSP Shipyard to quickly and surely enter in line with the well-known companies.

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„The market demand is increasing. The future belongs to the companies which have relied on the specialization of services offer and manpower. I can assure you that the future is here. We are building it. The GSP Shipyard’s objectives in this stage are to continue the personnel’s specialization process and to enrol in competition to gain a higher number of projects. Such investment has become necessary in our area. This site was necessary. We shall sustain the development of offshore industry through the fabrication activity which we are carrying out here. For us, the collaboration with GSP is the first option, but we grant equal significance to the projects from other partners. GSP Shipyard is a company determined to keep the specialized professional body and, depending on the number and dimension of projects, to increase it trying to select the manpower with the highest degree of specialization and the best performances.We are currently during a stage that allows us to consolidate the team and to complete it. GSP Shipyard currently has approximately 100 employees, to these being added the subcontracting companies’ personnel, whose number

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„The GSP Shipyard’s objectives in this stage are to continue the personnel’s specialization process and to enrol in competition to gain a higher number of projects. Such investment has become necessary in our area. This site was necessary.“

Gavril Groze, the GSP Shipyard General Manager

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varies depending on the needs.We are carrying out an investments program which has as purpose the completion of endowment with equipments – automatic metal plates and pipes cutting machine, special welding equipments, non-destructive control equipment, other equipments specific to the naval industry and to the

steel construction activities. Another investments objective that is a priority for us is represented by the completion of works at the multipurpose workshop. One million dollars shall be invested for this first stage.We are now ready to approach fabrication projects such as: jackets, modular platforms, a complete range of offshore constructions depending on the market’s request and we shall offer works of construction and modernization, mounting, installation, maritime and inland waters ships’ repairs. We already have the experience of a number of projects executed in close collaboration with the classification authorities and we shall further treat with the same concern these partners’ requirements”, has stated Gavril Groze, the GSP Shipyard General Manager.Further to the discussion, Gavril Groze has also told us: “GSP Shipyard had obtained a good mark once with the completion of GSP Bigfoot 1 project. I

We are now ready to approach fabrication projects such as: jackets, modular platforms, a complete range of offshore constructions depending on the market’s request and we shall offer works of construction and modernization, mounting, maritime and inland waters ships’ repairs.

Gavril Groze, the GSP Shipyard General Manager

GSP Shipyard. Akcakoca’s topsides’ construction stages

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can say that my entire team is confident, that the general trend of market’s recovery allows us to be optimistic and to prepare for new challenges. In conclusion I would like to let you know which is the thought that had always guided me in my career: “I shall not start working on a project if I don’t have the firm conviction that I can do it very well and it shall prove itself useful”. The initiators of new projects, the ship-owners have started to be more and more careful to the ratio between quality and price. When we say quality, we include here the materials, operations, processes, activities with low impact on the environment and the labour’s safety management. The quality in naval constructions is an extremely complex concept. GSP Shipyard shall have the capacity to respond to the complex quality requirements and we expect to engage orders mainly from the Black Sea’s region, but without stopping here.”Asked which is the project that he sees as the closest, Gavril Groze has answered: “GSP Bigfoot 1. The technical vessel is going to enter a modernization process. The project has as purpose the extension of the operation area up to the sea depth of 300 m, the increase of maximum diameter of the pipes which the vessel can currently install up to 48 inches, the installation of its own propulsion system through DP2 dynamic positioning, the installation of a power plant with four

3.5 MW generators, the installation of 6 azimuthal thrusters, of a tensioner which shall lead to the increase of the capacity of the subsea pipes fabrication lines up to 200 tons. The project takes also in consideration the extension of the accommodation capacity up to 240 places, so we are going to execute extension works at the accommodation as well, this being GSP Bigfoot 1 superstructure. We have the experience of this year’s works; we are ready to finalize the project on time so that the technical vessel will be prepared for operations within a new contract in the spring of 2011. We know that a risk factor for this project is the weather: the operations shall be carried out during winter and we have the experience from last winter, which was extremely tough. Still we hope to record a new success with this new project. We cannot control the weather’s rigour but we can be sure about the determination of the team we have here of proving its entire skill. GSP Bigfoot 1 cannot be immobilized for modernization works during summer. It is obvious. And, if we follow the activities which the barge has carried out since April, as well as the future operations’ agenda, we understand more clearly that the cold season is the only period in the year when improvements can be brought to the technical vessel. The modernization project shall be carried out during November 2010 – April 2011. A high volume of works has been planned; we shall have work fronts in all points of vessel.”The GSP Bigfoot 1 technical vessel’s conversion project foresees the following main works packages: Works for the extension of accommodation capacity;Works for the extension of pipes launching capacity;DP2 (dynamic positioning) conversion works; Works of mounting propellers;Works of mounting the new power plant.Paul Nichiforov, Site Manager, has added: “Besides the two main objectives

The completion of the integrated management system’s implementation process. The conclusion of this process shall certainly transform us in a company that fulfils all the criteria in order to become a leader in the naval construction domain for the offshore industry. It is very important.

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mentioned by Gavril Groze, the General Manager of GSP Shipyard, the continuation of the personnel specialization process and the enrolment in the competition for winning a greater number of projects, I would like to mention one which I consider extremely important: the completion of the integrated management system’s implementation process. The conclusion of this process shall certainly transform us in a company that fulfils all the criteria in order to become a leader in the naval construction domain for the offshore industry. It is very important. We have here an experienced team, I am talking about Elena Petre and Nicolae Raicea, so we expect nothing but very good results. For the GSP Bigfoot 1 project we can already say that the works are ongoing, since the engineering activity is in progress.

In this moment, there is one basic design and they are working at the execution design: we are trying to be prepared so when the vessels enters the site, all the aspects regarding the assembly, mounting and installation are clear, and the main part of the structural elements are prefabricated. For this, we are counting on the experience of the technological engineers we have here. The same specialists’ team had worked at the first stage of newbuild of GSP Bigfoot 1, at the GSP Orizont upgrade and reclassification project and some of the team’s members are with us since the modernization and reclassification of GSP Saturn drilling rig. We have gathered along us also the engineers that had worked in the offshore construction project for TPAO. These people have the necessary experience and skills to strengthen the GSP

Paul Nichiforov, Shipyard Manager, GSP Shipyard

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Shipyard team, and the workers that we have now offer, through their skills, a net advantage compared to other shipyards. These people have accumulated experience working on large sites of the oil and gas industry, they are representing an elite force in the economical landscape in this region.GSP Shipyard carries out fabrication activities which come to the support of the offshore industry. The site assures design, procurement and fabrication services, covering in the same time the operational aspects.The steel structures fabrication strategy for the offshore oil industry is centred on the products quality and the maximum safety of processes. GSP Shipyard is the only shipyard specialized in the offshore constructions filed for the oil and gas industry in the Black Sea region.GSP Shipyard sustains the dynamic development of the offshore industry through complex fabrication projects. The fabrication activity in the offshore constructions filed requires manpower

having a special training, which can document and demonstrate special professional competences. Talking about the fabrication of steel structures designated for a special environment, the offshore one, we must be able to warrant for our teams’ competency level. Well, we have discovered how easy a successful professional curriculum is produced and how far this can be from what we are looking for: welders with surgeon precision, fitters that would make envious a horologe specialist. Few are those that confirm that “the craft is a golden bracelet”, but the names of these people becomes synonym with the skill and quality, and GSP Shipyard has managed to develop a team made of the best professionals. With these men of value that we have hardly identified and have recruited bringing them back home from the big sites around the world, we manage to carry out the production activities so that we can meet the exigencies of our most demanding clients.

GSP Bigfoot 1. Newbuild process: fireline, accommodation, heavy lift crane

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GSP JuPiter concluded the drillinG oPerationSin Kavarna eaSt Perimeter

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GSP Jupiter concluded the drilling operations in Kavarna East perimeter Melrose Resources, the beneficiary of the services provided by GSP Jupiter, announced the discovery of significant reserves of natural gas at the end of the offshore well drilling in Kavarna East. Grup Servicii Petrioliere will also collaborate with Melrose Resources within the natural gas deposit development project in the Kaliakra area.GSP Jupiter has installed at the Kavarna East 1 well a subsea well head allowing the transportation of the natural gas from the subsea deposit without the support of offshore constructions such as topside and jacket, natural gas being delivered to the processing facility through subsea pipelines. The development plans for this newly discovered deposit provide the connection to Kavarna manifold linking afterwards to Galata Platform.The crew onboard the offshore drilling rig GSP Jupiter has performed the works requested by the client as scheduled, to the customer’s satisfaction, without registering incidents. The client’s (Melrose Resources) representative on board the platform declared himself satisfied with the professionalism proven by the offshore drilling crew as well as his satisfaction in regards of the drilling program which was carried out under the conditions required by the well engineering. The two operations carried out by GSP Jupiter, the Kavarna East 1 well drilling and the installation of the X-mas tree at the Kaliakra 2 complete the list of successful and safely conducted operations of the marine specialists, confirming the value of trained and experienced crew on board the GSP’s offshore drilling rigs. The fact that operations were safely carried out prove the high level of safety culture among our experts. Vasile Nicolae, Chief Drilling Officer, highlighted the performance of the marine operations team led by Vasile Ciochina. The latter has acquired valuable experience in a great number of rig moving operations. “The offshore drilling rig positioning operation on the location the client has indicated was a success, the same as operating the rig’s jack system. The platform’s legs have penetrated the ground at 25 meters depth on the work location. The rig move team has worked very well, receiving congratulations

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GSP 31Rig Type Modular Drilling Rig, skidding type Design DRECO , National Oilwell Technology Year Built 1987 Classification Det Norske Veritas Max Drill depth 12,000 ft / 3,600 m

CapaCitiesLiquid mud 1,685 bbls 268 m³ Drill Water 1,257 bbls 200 m³ Potable Water 630 bbls 100 m³ Fuel Oil 630 bbls 100 m³ Bulk Mud 1257 bbls 3878 cu ft 110 m³Bulk Cement 3878 cu ft 110 m³Sack Material 3,000 sacks

MaChineryMain Power 2 x Caterpillar 3512 TA Air Cooled,600 V, AC Power Distribution BENTEC - AC Synchronous Generator , Kato Engineering / Mustang Power Systems SCR System BENTEC 600 V 50/60 Hz – 660V-50/60 Hz

Drilling equipMentDerrick Dreco Model 10816.5-616 BS, Double , Gross nominal capacity 616,000 lbs Drawworks DRECO , D 1000 UE, 1000 HP , 1 1/8 EIPS 6 x 19 IWRC Drilling Line Crown Block DRECO , 528,000 lbs Top Drive Maritime Hydraulics, PTD 410, Capacity 350 mT, Rated Input 752 HP ( 3412 DITA CAT DIESEL ) DRECO Auxiliary Brake – Dretch Inc. Houston Texas Rotary 37 ½ and 27 ½ Dreco Drilling Machinery , 550 t , Draworks Torque Tube driven Driller’s Cabin Bentec , Single Chair Drilling Instrumentation Martin Decker Pipe Handling IR 3080 , National Oiwell Varco Mud Pumps 1 x Continental Emsco F800 + 1 x Upetrom 3 PN-1000 Shale Shakers 2 x Gann Mekaniske , AS GM-2000-E (Linear Motion) Mud Cleaner MI Swaco Mangoose BOP 13 5/8 x 5 k NL / Shaffer , Annular + SL Double and Single Control System NL/Shaffer ,T60-320-3S , 3000 psi Choke & Kill 1 x 3 1/8 in x 5 K choke manifold w/ 1 x 3 1/8 in x 5 K positive choke, 1 x 3 1/8 in x 5 K manual choke and 1 x 3 1/8 in x 5 k fixed choke Cementing Schlumberger Cementing Unit (Third Party)

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The mobile offshore drilling rig GSP Saturn performed drilling operations in the Mediterranean Sea. The beneficiary of the drilling services is JAPEX, through the branch JAPEX Libya Ltd. Based to the contract, the offshore drilling rig performed drilling for an exploration well. The Mediterranean Sea drilling campaign involved preparative works in order to ensure the offshore drilling rig the safe passage under the Bosporus Strait bridges. For the Bosporus Strait crossing it was necessary to remove the last segment of the drilling rig legs, as well as the superior section of the drilling derrick. The activities were carried out in GSP’s operational base in Constanta Port. The legs’ and drilling derrick sections were reinstalled in Tuzla Port in Turkey. GSP Saturn was subject of an extensive upgrade and reclassification process, completed in 2009. The investment amounted 60 USD mil. The rig move operation took place in March. The rig safely crossed the strait under the bridges, observicg the height restriction of maximum 55 meters. At the end of the re-installation operations scheduled in Tula for the legs and derrick, the beneficiary carried out an extensive audit onboard. At its completion the convoy set sail towards the Mediterranean Sea. The drilling campaign was carried out according to the program the client has designed. Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd. (JAPEX) is the largest oilo and gas company in Japan. JAPEX carries out operations in Japan, were it focuses its activities in Hokkaido, Akita, Yamagata and Niigata regions and overseas, in countries such as Canada, Indonezia and Libya. The offshore drilling campaign carried out by MODU GSP Saturn in Southern Mediterranean as well as the excellent proof of professionalism of the crew underlined again the key elements which are the very base of successful commercial relations. Toyohiko Kaneiro, CEO of JAPEX Lybia Ltd., addressed at the completion of the scheduled operations the following message:“With this letter, JAPEX would like to express our satisfaction with the service provided by Grup Servicii Petroliere S.A. and Petroleum Company’s Group Collaborators on our last offshore drilling operation conducted in the second quarter of 2010 in Area 40 Block 3 and 4, offshore Northeast Bengazi of Libya. Please extend our appreciation to your crew who was onboard of GSP Saturn and supported in very good performance. Once again we appreciate GSP’s performance and contribution to JAPEX and look forward to working with GSP in the future.”

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from the Melrose Resources representative in Varna, Bulgaria. Vasile Ciochina proves himself to be an inspiring mentor for the new generation of specialists in marine operations. We can say that the young barge engineers were significantly helped to reach the performance level the Company demands due to the skills Vasile Ciochina has proven in transferring knowledge and experience”, Vasile Nicolae said.Melrose Resources envisages setting up in 2012 a development project for a subsea reserve on the Romanian Black Sea continental shelf. The project involves a jacket construction and installation, as well as the installation of a subsea pipeline. In the cooperation tradition with Melrose Resource, the fabrication activities will be carried out by GSP Shipyard, the load out, transport and installation activities being performed by GSP. The key elements qualifying GSP for a new collaboration consist in the extensive experience the company possesses in the field of integrated services for the offshore industry, the excellent knowledge of the perimeters in which we operate, the highly trained staff, the offer of integrated innovative solutions, a careful cost controlling for each operation, the long lasting and solid partnership we developed with our clients, based on the elevated quality and safety standards”, concluded Vasile Nicolae, Chief Drilling Officer, thus explaining the good commercial relationship GSP and Melrose Resources are having.

GSP 31 – PreParative workS for a new drillinG contractThe self contained modular drilling rig GSP 31 is prepared for a new offshore drilling contract. The activities are carried out in GSP’s Constanta Nord - Midia Base. The modular drilling installation will perform drilling operations for the development of Akcakoca perimeter in western Black Sea. The self contained modular drilling rig will be assisted during the drilling of three new wells by GSP Bigfoot 3, the heavy lift, work and accommodation barge.

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A new exercise conducted by GsP orion osrThe best antipollution intervention consists in avoiding pollution.For the unwanted hazardous situations in which pollution takes place, the only possibility is to find ourselves ready to intervene, with well trained crews and most efficient pieces of equipment. The oil and shipping industries have the duty to

focus on issues related to reducing the environmental impact of the commercial activity. Our crews receive up-to-date information enabling their members to control the consequences a large oil spillage could have. The practical training also covers environmental preservation issues. In this way we can guarantee

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attached to the idea of protecting the environment, and regularly prepares for intervention in cases of oil pollution.On the 3rd of September, GSP Orion performed a new OSR (oil spill recovery) exercise. The ship left the port of Constanta South - Agigea after the loading and installation of the oil recovery equipment. The OSR exercise also included the theoretical training of the crew that specialized in oil recovery in the open sea. Ship’s crew already has the experience of many exercises of the kind, some involving international collaboration, involving extensive specialized maritime forces in actions such as saving human life at sea, other antipollution activities. The preparative training actions for the intervention in case of accidents involving oil pollution of the sea water are usual for the GSP’s Orion crew. The exercise took place under the following weather conditions: sea grade 3-4, NW wind, the speed reaching 5m / s. the oil recovery equipment has been tested and the vessel proved capable to effective intervene for the ORS missions. GSP Orion meets the requirements for recovery interventions in case open sea oil spill accidents, having, in addition to the oil collection equipment a sufficient storage capacity and oil separation tanks. The oil recovery equipments are stored in GSP’s main operational base in Constanta Port as well as in Constanta Sud – Agigea port as well as onboard the ship. The vessel carries out the commercial activities on contractual bases supplying the offshore oil and gas installations, being able to mobilize in a 24 hours time frame from the moment when the request is received for OSR operations. Each crew member proved himself well informed and excellently prepared to act. Behind the coordinated actions of the people stays the deep understanding of the need to protect the natural environment.

that we can carry out production and commercial activities while minimizing or even eliminating the environmental risks without interrupting the operations. We currently ensure that each crew member is an environmental agent. People prefer learning to apply prevention methods than implementing solutions to reduce the impact of events that resulted in marine environment pollution. The marine environment has undergone dramatic changes over recent decades. The crew onboard GSP Orion, proves deeply

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GSP ORiOnMAIN PARTICULARSShip’s name : GSP ORIONShip’s type : Offshore Supply VesselCall sign : OUUZ2IMO no. : 8102517Port of registry : DOUGLAS

MAIN CHARACTERISTICSLength overall: 67.400 mLength between perpendiculars: 60.000 mMoulded breadth: 16.800 mMoulded depth: 7.100 mSummer draught: 6.200 mDeadweight: 3003 tGross tonnage: 1599Net tonnage : 654Class: DET NORSKE VERITASCharacter of class : +1A1 SUPPLY VESSEL(SF)- EO OILREC

CARGO CAPACITIES:Deck area: 615 sq.m (42,2 m x 14.7 m)Allowable deck cargo load : 5.000 t/sq.mCrash barrier height : 2800 mFuel: 299 cub.mPotable water: 979 cub.mDrill water: 719 cub.mLiquid mud: 304 cub.m/ 1900 bblsBrine : 207 cub.m /1307 bblsBase oil : 304 cub.m /1900 bblsDry bulk : 340 cub.m / 12000 cubic feet

DISCHARGE CAPACITIES:Fuel : 2 x 100 cub.m/h -7.5 barPotable water : 2 x 100 cub.m/-7.5 barDrill water: 100 cub.m/h – 7.5 barLiquid mud: 2 x 50 cub.m/ h- 18 barBrine : 100 cub.m /h- 7.5 barBase oil : 2 x 100 cub.m /h – 18 barDry bulk compressor : 2 x 28 cub.m /min – 5.6 barCapability to discharge 2 products simultaneously via discharge stations on both sides

DECK MACHINERY/ MOORING SYSTEMTugger winches 2 x 10 tCapstans 2 x 7.5 tDeck crane 1 t at 2-9 mWindlass / Mooring 8 t/6 t SWLAnchors 2 x 1980 kg StocklessChain cables 1 x 466 m and 1 x 548 m , both with 36 mm K3 chain

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MACHINERY & PROPULSION Diesel electric main engines 3 x Rolls Royce 1720 BHPAuxiliary engine 1 x 160 Kw; 440V; 60 HzEmergency generator 1 x 24 Kw ; 440 V ; 60 HzGenerators : 3 x 1500 kVA ; 440 V; 60 HzMain propellers 2 x 2000 BHP Azimuth thrustersMain propeller diameter : 2 x 2300 mm diaBow thrusters 2 x 900 BHP TunnelStern thruster : Using Azimuth thrustersRudders: Using Azimuth thrusters

NAVIGATION & COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENTRadars: 1 x 3 cm and 1 x 10 cmJoystick: Liaaen PosconElectronic chart: FittedMain radio : GMDSSInmarsat C : Telex

PERFORMANCE Maximum speed: 12,5 KnotsConsumptions per day Sailing: 9 t at 10.5 knots, 12 t at full speed Stand-by approx.: 3-5 t In port approx. 0,75 t

ACCOMODATIONTotal capacity 21 personsCabins 11 x 1 person; 5 x 2 personsHospital fully equipped infirmary for 1 personLounge 1Office 1

CONTINGENCY EQUIPMENTFast Rescue Craft 1 x outboard motorsCO2 fire fighting system for engine room and galley

OTHER EQUIPMENT / FEATURES4 x 32 amp reefer – outlets on deck

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SucceSSfully completed reScue miSSion

A Turkish vessel loaded with scrap left the port of Constanta South - Agigea after midnight and headed to Turkey, bound for Istanbul. For reasons remaining unknown, the ship began leaning dangerously to port, shortly after departure, while at a distance of six nautical miles away of the harbor external breakwater. The crew has announced the port authorities the vessel was about 20 degrees tilted and in danger of sinking. At around 4.45 a GSP vessel arrived on location and the 17 crew members were safely taken aboard the salvage ship. Around 7.20 a.m. the saved sailors arrived in Constanta Sud – Agigea port. At about eight hours from the salvage mission, Medy, the Turkish ship sank. The true acts of heroism are performed by modest people, with a strong sense of duty. This is what we have discovered on the 1st of September, meeting the GSP Orion crew. Perhaps the most important thing they wish at their departure at sea is to avoid dangerous events and to return safe at home. The mere fact that they hear about or witness high – risk incidents at sea leads people to value more safety and health. On returning from a rescue mission the sailors are hardly persuaded to speak about it. They find completely exaggerated when they are called heroes and look away in embarrassment.

At 8 am on the 1st of September, the harbor formalities onboard GSP Orion had been already concluded. It was obvious that it was not an ordinary morning, a usual return to port after a routine mission. The large number of people with faces expressing fatigue and excitement stood witnessing this. At the end of a terrible test, the people silently enjoyed touching the firm ground again under their feet. They were at the end of a long string of hours during which their stamina, skill and courage have been hardly put to test. Medy crew, rescued on the morning of September 1 from the ship in danger of sinking, was later taken into care by the port authorities. It was the end of long hours of torment. They tried to save the ship until they understood that there is nothing to be done. They called authorities. The support vessels at the shortest range have been mobilized. GSP Orion, supply and OSR specialized vessel was returning from a mission, being available for the task. The vessel carried out the rescue mission. GSP Orion crew has proved the high value of the regular exercises and training and the efficiency of each responsibly trained crew member. „I tell you that this is by no means a situation people at sea may consider desirable. It is true the fact that our intervention was a success, we saved 17 people. But during my years at sea I have learned that human life must be protected. A prime objective of the crew is to operate in such a manner as to ensure there’s no danger for the people, the environment, the goods he is entrusted to care. When life brings people to confront with desperate situations, such as the one we have all witnessed, our sole satisfaction is to prove responsible, highly efficient and save the lives of our fellows. We were

I tell you that this is by no means a situation people at sea may consider desirable. It is true the fact that our intervention was a success, we saved 17 people. But during my years at sea I have learned that human life must be protected.

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to maneuver the approach with great precision, to assess all risks in order to avoid them: the conditions at sea are not among the most favorable we faced a rough sea in adverse wind conditions. To our satisfaction we now report a successful rescue operation“, told us Brojboiu Sorin, master of GSP Orion after the rescue mission carried out on the 1st of September.The Turkish vessel Medy, loaded with 3247 tons of scrap iron, started taking water after tilting dangerously to port and sank on the 1st of September 2010 at 12.45, about 12 km south-east, despite the rescue attempts.

La operaţIunea de saLvare au partIcIpat: SORIN BROJBOIU, MASTERBOGDAN IORDANESCU, CH.MATEADRIAN PUIU, DECK OFF.CORNEL LUCA, CH.ENGTEODOR DANDU, 2ND ENGINEMAURO PREZIOSO, ENG.OFFVALERIU GABRIEL ROSCA, ELECTRICIANFLORIAN SIRMON, BOSUNNICOLAE BALAN, HELSMANDUMITRU GHEORGHE, HELSMANNAGI MENASAN, HELSMANSTERE CARTUNA, MOTORMANGHEORGHE SURMELIS, MOTORMANMARIAN TRIFU, COOKBOGDAN STROE, DECK CADET

travelling from Varna to Constanta South – Agigea Port. At a distance of 10 miles before entering the port we have been contacted by the Romanian Agency for Saving of Life at Sea (ARSVOM). We were informed at around 4:45 that the Turkish ship Medy is in danger of sinking. I received instructions to head at our highest speed towards the location in order to save the crew of 17 people, which I did. At around 5:20 we stopped near the endangered vessel and in around 20 minutes we managed to transfer all the crew members, including its master, safely, on board our vessel, GSP Orion. Medy was very much inclined on port side, and we do not know the causes that led to this situation.What I want to emphasize is that GSP Orion is not the only GSP’s vessel that successfully completes a rescue operation in the Black Sea. GSP King in its turn also successfully conducted operations of the kind.Facing a limit operation the people are extremely stressed. We took great care to keep constant contact with the endangered crew from the moment we received instructions to proceed towards Medy and rescue the 17 people. Until the moment the last Turkish crew member was brought safely on our deck, our crew has sent encouraging messages and helped to coordinate the fairest way the transfer operation. It was necessary

Gsp orion and Medy’s turkish crew at the end of the rescue operation

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The underwater pipe-laying operations have been completed. The installation of the subsea pipeline in the north – eastern region of the Black Sea is an important step forward for GSP in order to confirming its position of regional market leader in the offshore construction domain. The Company’s strengths were, in a quick view: the already gained prestige, its dynamism, the ability to adapt quickly to new, the manner of working closely with customers in order to build long term relationships and contractual cooperation. In a close competition, GSP was able to impose itself as the Company business card includes, along with a relevantly experienced professional body, a complex and modern fleet, able to respond effectively to the challenges of the vast operations the project involves. The Company’s ability to provide the offshore industry in the Black Sea an extensive fleet able to answer to a complex series of specific requirements for the proper conduct of the offshore activities in the project area was of crucial importance. GSP proved the ability to ensure a good part of the flow services, such as: inspections, training, procedures and in-house testing generation – including mooring, transportation, installation, welding. GSP has completed 95% of the underwater pipe-laying operations to be performed under the DLS project (Dzhubga-Lazarevskoye-Sochi). Sochi will host the 2014 Winter Olympics and the project for which GSP was the contractor of the subsea pipeline installation activities is considered by the Russian Government a strategic development project of Krasnodar region. The pipeline will secure gas supplies, being designed to transport 3.8 bcm annually. DLS project objective is to provide a stable and reliable gas supply

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to Krasnodar territory, on the Black Sea coast area, including the cities of Tuapse and Sochi. The Dzhubga - Lazarevskoe – Sochi pipeline is also included in the Olympic Objectives Program, approved by the Russian Federation. The construction of this gas pipeline will ensure stable and uninterrupted supply of gas to the Caucasus and the coastal area and will contribute to the improvement of the supply of natural gas for the city of Sochi. The operations carried out by GSP in the north east of the Black Sea within the DLS project have included the installation 150 kilometers of 20-inch pipeline and of 4.5 km of pipeline with the 6-inch diameter out of the total length of the pipeline (including the onshore sections ) being 177 km. GSP has provided the project management activities, QHSE / QC activities, diving, welding, pipe non-destructive inspection, engineering, logistics, subsea survey, manufacturing, dredging, pipe flooding and inner diameter measuring operations, pressure testing and pipeline drying operations. The subsea pipeline has been installed on the bottom of the Black Sea at a distance of about 4.5 km from shore (2.8 nautical miles) its route going parallel to the shore; the pipeline ends onshore at the Kudapesta gas distribution plant, near Sochi. GSP Prince has carried out the underwater inspection operations along the entire route of the submarine pipeline. The vessel supported the GSP ROV Triton XLR subsea survey operations, the equipment providing monitoring data for the installation along the entire pipeline length, and supervision in the area where the pipe crossed a subsea cable. The 20-inch pipeline was installed by the technical vessels GSP Bigfoot 1 and C-Master, the installation operation starting from Kudapesta to Tuapse 1, Tuapse 2, Dzubga. GSP Bigfoot 1 has also attended the pipeline pulling

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operations onshore, the first operation of this kind taking place at Kudapesta. There have been performed directional drilling operations and casing in onshore locations in order to pull the pipeline on land between Tuapse and Kudapesta after the installation of the 530 mm / 20 inch. With the support of GSP Bigfoot 1 and a onshore based hydraulic system the pipeline was pulled also in Tuapse 1. Tuapse 2, and Dzubga. There are scheduled trenching operations on the pipeline route on a a distance of 6.5 kilometers in the Shakhe region and another 2.9 kilometers in Kudapesta region. GSP Bigfoot 1performed the connection works of the pipeline sections coming from the shore to the subsea pipeline installed parallel to the shoreline. GSP has mobilized for offshore operations in north-eastern Black Sea over 350 professionals and an impressive number of vessels: GSP Bigfoot1, C MASTER, GSP PRINCE, GSP PHOENIX, GSP Vega, Boa Magnitor, Amber II, fleet to which vessels of the client were added. GSP has provided project management, including QA/QC, HSE management, provided interface with the insurance and subcontracting companies, documentation management and project planning, procurement and logistics management, shipping and control of the temporary and permanent imports, subcontractors’ supervision, coordination and contracted engineering services inspection, the issue of the close out documentation. The welding methodology developed by GSP has been approved by the beneficiary and the welders have received the work permit after training and testing completed within GSP Welding School, according to the standards the client has set.

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OffshOre COnstruCtiOns: the COmpletiOn Of AkCAkOCA plAtfOrm instAllAtiOn wOrksThe regional market is our first target. Our offer of offshore services is addressed to the national and multinational petroleum companies which hold exploration – exploitation – development licenses mainly in the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Caspian Sea, and the Azov Sea. With some of these companies we already have a very good collaboration, other potential clients have stated their intention to collaborate with us and have announced their intention to assess us more closely from the point of view of the integrated management system and the projects portfolio. We have a chance which must not be overlooked, namely the one that we are located in an area where the offshore industry announces an accelerated development: the context of the business counts as much as the team that you begin with. GSP has signed the engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning of the greatest modular production platform in the Black Sea. We don’t stop here but we are preparing for new projects, with a higher degree of complexity, we are ready for new challenges.

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Mihai Cârlan, Chief Offshore

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Further to the successful completion of Akcakoca Project, we estimate a gradual increase of the request for integrated packages of services, including engineering, fabrication, project management, offshore operations, shipping in the Black Sea’s area. We are expecting that, besides the already contracted engagements, in projects currently developing with traditional contractual partners to whom we already have a of joint projects, on the Black Sea’s continental shelf in Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Russia, to receive other orders as well. Proving

by completing this project, the high level at which GSP has the capacity to fulfil its contractual obligations, we shall record an increasing number in collaborations within some new offshore constructions projects (engineering, project management, human resources, fabrication and transport, installation, commissioning and maintenance), drilling and well intervention, subsea operations – inspections, installations, maintenance – with both subsea remote operated vechicles and divers, supply and naval transport in the oil fields, offshore operations, drilling and training.

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P37 GSP Shipyard. The Akcakoca jacket - people who made it possible

GSP is leader on the offshore constructions’ regional market. The EPIC contract (engineering, procurement, installation, commissioning) for the execution of Akcakoca platform within the second stage of development of the natural gas reserve in this perimeter has proven to be a success. GSP is currently carrying out the last activities of commissioning the equipments, testing and handing over to the Client, TPAO, Türkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortaklığı, the beneficiary of this complex offshore constructions work. The success recorded by GSP within

this project was based on the activities of inspection, quality control, those carried out in the domain of labour’s safety and occupational health. These had contributed, along with the attention that the procedures of fabrication, assembling, installation procedures were elaborated with, to the results that we are registering now. The HSEQ activity had permanently accompanied the entire process of fabrication, as well as the other activities carried out.The HSEQ standards had been equally exigent during the load out, transport and

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installation operations. At the beginning of the works we have proposed to ourselves to obtain very good results and now we have the opportunity to inform you that during the evolution of the project there were no incidents recorded, wounds, lost time injuries or ecological accidents. This achievement had been possible because GSP applies the same high HSEQ standard in all the activities it carries out and because the carefully selected and trained personnel has developed a labour’s culture within which the work’s safety, the environment’s protection and the quality are constituting as central values. „We are now gathering the fruits of the daily toolbox meetings, of the weekly production meetings with the subcontractors and of the weekly analysis meetings held with all management and decision factors involved in this project.

These had had as result the identification of the most efficient and safe solutions for the problems we had confronted within this project. The team’s full implication had led us to these results”, Mihai Carlan, the director of Offshore Constructions Department has told us. In the transport operations, as well as in the installation ones carried out within the Akcakoca perimeter, installation operations for the subsea pipeline, the jacket and the topsides, GSP had mobilized four technical vessels: GSP Bigfoot 1, GSP Bigfoot 2, GSP Bigfoot 3 and GSP Neptun; AHT (anchor handling tug): GSP Vega and Amber (AHT 1, respectively AHT 2 for the GSP Bigfoot 1 barge), GSP Queen, (AHT 2 for Bigfoot 3), GSP Licorn, supply and assistance vessel, for the hyperbaric rescue unit (HRC), the Aran motor-ship and the P4 barge.

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WOrldWide OffShOre SOluTiOnS (WOS) Worldwide Offshore Solutions (WOS), member of Upetrom Group, provided operational support to the general contractor of the offshore construction project having as client TPAO The collaboration with GSP does not exclusively includes offshore construction projects, WOS being involved as well in the newbuild project of the shallow water pipelay and heavy lift barge GSP Bigfoot 1.Worldwide Offshore Solutions BV operates autonomously and provides services to a growing customer base of oil companies and contractors. Management and all senior staff previously held senior positions with leading offshore installation, pipe laying and construction contractors.Worldwide Offshore Solutions’ services may be called in for a single project stage, or to completely manage an overall project and all of its interfaces.The Akcakoca offshore construction project has included a series of spectacular activities, such as those of template, jacket and topsides load-out, transportation and instalation. All these couldn’t be safely completed without the mobilization of the GSP SAT 1 saturation diving system and of the last generation remotedly operated vechicle GSP ROV Triton XLX. From the people taking part in the offshore operations and directly involved in these activities, we managed to find out a few facts in regards of the divers’ work as well as the most important operations carried out by the ROV. Wen are now introducing these facts to you:

SubSeA WOrkS WiTh SATurATiOn diverSAkcakoca platform is installed at 95 meters water depth. At such a depth, the divers’ work become possible only in saturation. GSP has mobilized the diving system GSP SAT 1 LexMar, which allows the divers to work

at the maximum depth of 300 msw.Pat Mooney, the diving superintendent onboard GSP Bigfoot 3 gave us a few details about the divers’ work:The diving services have worked out very well and the last client was very pleased with our production. We expect this one to be the same. The GSP SAT 1 LexMar system is up there, among the top equipments in the world. We’re working with the best professional people, the best technicians, professionals that made it possible for the divers to do their job. It’s not just us doing the job; we’re all a team, onboard this vessel from the riggers to galley staff, to everybody, and you can rely on them. At the end of the day is team work that gets the job done, not just one.The equipments onboard supply all the services to the divers in the water. This way we give them warmth for the working depth, the breathing gas, and communications, so we can talk to them and have video too. The divers will stay at the working depth for approximately 28 to 30 days, they will decompress and recompress to whatever depth will be required to work at, without coming to the surface. In effect you can see here these cameras cover all the locks inside and focus on different parts of the locks; you can see the living conditions inside.

The Akcakoca offshore construction project has included a series of spectacular activities, such as those of template, jacket and topsides load-out, transportation and instalation. All these couldn’t be safely completed without the mobilization of the GSP SAT 1 saturation diving system and of the last generation remotedly operated vechicle GSP rOv Triton XlX.

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Mostly, these guys spend eight hours in the water, when they come back it is understood that they are quite tired. The GSP SAT1 LexMar system has two baro-chambers, each of them having the maximum capacity of with six places. At their return inside, the divers have their meals and probably they sleep 8 to 12 hours. We do like to keep the protein level up and we like to send them good quality food, because you do consume a lot more calories in there then normally. They get the same menu as everybody else does, sometimes a little bit extra if we have chocolate and stuff like that. Breathing in helix environment is taxing on the body. Work, eat, sleep, that’s basically it. They do have communication, we have an e-mail link here and they can communicate through the life support supervisor and the life support technicians who run this panel and we try and make them as comfortable as possible, to get in there as much comfort as we can.

rOv SubSeA Survey And WOrkS WiThin AkCAkOCA PrOjeCTThe GSP ROV Triton XLX was mobilized within this project, for subsea surveys and works. The equipment has registered over 3000 mobilization hours, being reported as operational time more than 350 hours. The equipment was installed onboard GSP Queen, GSP Prince, GSP Bigfoot 3, GSP Licorn. The first operation was performed by GSP ROV Triton XLX between the 12th and 14th of August 2009. GSP Queen, AHTS was mobilized as ROV support vessel for the Akcakoca perimeter activities. The program incuded the subsea survey of location of the future offshore construction as well as the seven kilometers of pipeline route. These surveys are carried out in order to assess the potentialy existing risk

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of the new template. On the 3rd of July the jacket reached the location; from this point forward were carried out the most spectacular operations of the GSP ROV Triton XLX within the installation program. The subsea robotic vechicle has opened the valves on the jacket legs in order to allow the controlled verticalization and positioning according to the project. In order to do that, a special hidraulic equipment was installed on the ROV.GSP ROV Triton XLX was also involved in monitoring the piles installation operation as well as assisting the divers’ works, while onboard GSP Bigfoot 3. Triton XLX was equiped with a hidraulic cutting device, able to cut steel cables up to maximum 3,5-in (75 mm); it was used to cut the rigging which couldn’t be otherwise removed or recovered. The ROV also completed the subsea cutting operation on the rubber diafragms installed on the legs of the jacket. After the drilling platform installation, the ROV took part in the installation of the concrete mattresses over the spools connecting the subsea pipeline. The ROV support is a key factor for the operations within an offshore construction project, as the engineering works are based on the subsea survey results on the routes of the future subsea pipelines or on the location where offshore constructions are going to be installed. The successful installation of the subsea pipelines depends as well on the results of the touch down survey or as lay survey. The ROVs give the possibility to transfer and analyse the information onboard the vessel in real time. The subsea survey services combine at the highest level last hour technologies. The offer of subsea survey services GSP provides was elaborated in order to meet the demands the offshore oil and gas industry rapidly developing in the Black Sea region.

factors for the scheduled operations, having an important role in the safety of the transportation and installation activities. The operation carried out in August has mobilized, besides the GSP ROV Triton XLX the DGPS positioning equipment (Differential Global Positioning System) and the subsea Rotech dredging equipment. The final report of the operation shows it was a success: there have been removed the subsea debris on the jacket location, the two conductors of the existing wells were precisely located the subsea survey also including two other locations of high interest, in order to precisely locate the subsea wooden fishing boat wreck on the pipeline route as well as the connection location on the main pipeline transporting the natural gas onshore. Onboard the vessel there have been carried out works to ensure the safe operation of the GSP ROV Triton XLX 150 and Rotech equipments. The subsea survey program was carried out under the supervision of the beneficiary’s representative (TPAO). GSP Queen, after the testing and calibration of the equipments, had the task to move on the location where the jacket is going to be installed, to perform the ROV visual survey of the site. After the subsea survey, as the images and the other collected data presented uneven ground, the offshore construction perimeter was dredged with the Rotech equipment. GSP ROV Triton XLX has also performed the entire seven kilometres of pipeline route subsea survey; the pipeline will connect the jacket and the already installed main pipeline transporting the natural gas from the offshore subsea reserve to the onshore processing plant. A last inspection performed on the jacket location showed the dredging activity results. The remote operated vechicle was aso involved in the old subsea template removal as well as the installation works

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Heavy Duty Work Class rov, 3000M, 150 HPDepth Rating 3050 MSW (10500 fsw) Power 150HP Through Frame Lift 3000 kg Control System ICE ™ Real Time Control System with Gb Telemetry and Graphical Diagnostics Auto Control Modes Heading, Depth, Altitude and Auto Position ™ Payload Capacity 250kgsPeCifiCationsDiMensions Length: 3250 mm Width: 1780 mm Height: 1940 mm Weight in Air: 4900 kg Payload Capacity: 250 Plus kg Power Pack (Shaft/HP) 150Thruster Horizontal: 4 x 380 mm Thruster Vertical: 4 x 300 mm Turning Rate: 40 deg. per second Auto Heading Control: Automatic to ± 2.0 degree Pitch and Roll Control ± 5.0 degrees Depth Control Automatic to ± 150 mm Altitude Control Automatic to ± 150 mm Bollard Pull (Nominal) Forward: 1100 kgf Lateral: 1100 kgf Vertical: 900 kgf Through Frame Lift: 3000 kgf stanDarD equiPMent Gyro/Fluxgate Compass Pitch/Roll Sensor Digiquartz Depth Doppler Velocity Log-ROV DP Auto Functions (Heading/Depth/Altitude/Position) 16 Station Proportional NG3 Main Manifold 14 Station Proportional Thrusters Manifold-6 spare functions 12 Station Proportional Tooling Manifold 500 watt lights on dimming circuits available (6) Circuits x/2 x 250 watt lights per standard (6) Manipulator (Left/Right) Sonar interfaCes for Hydraulic Interfaces Electric Tool Interfaces teleMetry Realtime Video Channel (8) Spare Fiber Optic Wavelengths (4 total)

Devoted Serial Channels for Gyro, Digiquartz Standard survey interfaces 12 ( 8 x RS232 4 x RS485) Various options up to 44 serial channels -Voltage feedback for input power and all switching controls -Current sensing on each channel -1 Gb Ethernet survey mux -Various AC and DC sensor with up to 42 power channelsPoWer Distribution 215 KVA Transformer for Vehicle Hydraulics (1) 8.5 KVA Transformer for Vehicle Electronics (1) 15 KVA Transformer for TMS-HPU (1) 2 KVA Transformer for TMS Electronics (1) Ground fault detection circuits Deck cable interface CB, OL and current/voltage sensor Control systeM Utilizes the evolutionary ICE™ Integrated Control Engine Fully redundant Windows® based HMI Computers Dedicated real-time controllers Intuitive Graphic User Interface (GUI) Advanced graphical interactive diagnostics User configurable GUI Ergonomic pilot/co-pilot control consoles and touch screen control interfaces 4 x 40” HD Plasma video wall systeM oPtions Main Umbilical ArmoredSurface Handling ‘A’ Frame/Winch to Lawson Handling SystemControl Cabin Certified/Zone Rated Control Console Advanced Console or Integrated Chair Control Video Wall (Four 40” LCD Monitors) Surface Communications Manipulator Control Tether Management System Tophat 350 Tether (Tophat) Workskids Survey & Bathymetric suites Suction Pile Variable Ballast Jetting Module Tool Interface Module Telemetry

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GSP BiGfoot 1 at the BeGinninG of a new Project. the SuBSea PiPe inStallation oPerationS at the Galata Platform have commenced

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GSP is the general contractor within the installation contract of the subsea pipes at the Galata offshore platform, on the Bulgarian continental shelf in the Black Sea: therefore GSP has the responsibility for the activities of engineering, fabrication, installation and commissioning the infrastructure for the transport of natural gas from Kavarna 2 and Kaliakra 2 wells towards the offshore platform, according to the development project elaborated by Melrose Resources. The project, for whose execution GSP is now in charge, consists in: • The installation of a subsea pipe with the diameter of 6 inches for natural gas, which shall connect the Galata platform, built at a water depth of 36 meters, to a subsea wellhead located at 8.5 km away, at a water depth of 52 meters;• The installation of a 10 inches subsea pipe with the length of 14.5 km;• The installation of two subsea pipes with the diameter of 1 inch, which shall connect the Galata platform, at a water depth of 36 meters, to a subsea wellhead located at 8.5 km away, at a water depth of 52 meters;• The installation of a riser with a 10 inches diameter, which makes the connection between the subsea pipe and the Galata platform.Grup Servicii Petroliere assures the project management, the fabrication of the two 1” diameter pipes, the mobilization of GSP Bigfoot 1 barge for pipeline installation, mobilization of GSP Vega and GSP Orion AHT vessels, of the supply vessels and of GSP Prince, vessel which assures the support for the subsea survey works, for both the pipe’s route and the visual subsea inspection of the installed pipe.The preparatory works within Galata project had been carried out in several stages. These had included the stages of engineering, procurement, subsea inspections, map drawing, installation of concrete mattresses in the points where the new subsea construction is going to cross the previously installed cables

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pipe installed within the previous project (DLS). At the Galata subsea works project, GSP had collaborated for the fabrication activities with Upetrom 1 Mai and for the designing works with Worldwide Offshore Sollutions, both companies being members of Upetrom Group. At the completion of subsea pipe installation works, GSP shall carry out their connection at the subsea well heads, the testing and the drying of pipes, as well as the measuring of their inner diameter with the help of the pipeline internal gauging devices (PIG). For the operations scheduled within the Galata project, four such devices (PIG) shall be used, depending on the pipes’ diameter. The PIG’s are endowed with localization sensors which are activated at contact with water. The entire fabrication operations cycle shall take place on board GSP Bigfoot 1 pipelay barge, from those of preparation of the pipe sections for welding, welding, NDT, tightness test, mounting the supports for the two 1 inch auxiliary pipes, the mounting of aluminium anodes which compose the pipe’s anticorrosive system and the fixing of auxiliary pipes. The touchdown survey operation – the pipe’s inspection at the contact with the seabed, shall be performed with the help of the Mohican ROV installed onboard the GSP Bigfoot 1 technical vessel. The development of Galata project and the exploitation of the subsea natural gas deposits from the Black Sea’s platform shall offer for Bulgaria a viable alternative to assure the energetic resources, contributing to the decrease of imports. The Galata project, for the stockage of natural gas, was initiated by Melrose Resources, taking into account also the new discoveries from Kaliakra East perimeter.GSP Jupiter had concluded the operations of drilling a well in this perimeter and the beneficiary company had communicated that the results of this recently finalized project are a success.

routes. The 10 inches pipe shall overpass two subsea cables. At the location of the crossing between the subsea cables and the pipe, the terrain had been previously prepared. The project foresees that a distance of 1.5 meters between the subsea cable and the pipe is kept. The 6 inches pipe also crosses a subsea cable and the same type of protection works had been performed in this case as well, being assured that the same minimum distance between the cable and the pipe is kept. The client shall perform the tightness test for this pipe in the period foreseen for commissioning. GSP Prince previously performed in March, within the preparatory activities for the subsea pipes installation works within the Galata project, two activities: the 3D map drawing and, with the help of the sonar, the mapping of the marine terrain’s configuration on the pipe’s route so that, further to the data checking, its route to be highly documented. GSP Prince had also performed the works of placing the concrete mattresses for the protection of the optic fibre subsea cables, in order to protect them during the pipe’s installation. GSP Bigfoot 1, the shallow water subsea pipelay and heavy lift barge had returned from the Russian territorial waters, where it concluded the subsea pipe installation operations within the DLS project on September 16. The barge preparation works for the Galata project had been carried out for a period of 2 days, these including: the completion of internal audit, the performance of audit by the representatives of Germanischer Lloyd Classification Company, maintenance works for the two cranes, the thorough check of equipments, supply works. GSP Bigfoot 1 barge has left the Constanta South – Agigea harbour on Saturday, September 18th, heading to the work area. The configuration of the subsea pipe fabrication line had been modified in order to install different diameter pipes – namely 6 inches, 10 inches and 1 inch – compared to the diameter of the

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GSP BiGfoot 1 haS Been viSited By the BulGarian MiniSter of econoMy, enerGy and touriSMThe development project of Galata Platform is a strategic one for Bulgaria. The Bulgarian Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism, Traicho Traikov has visited on the 4th of October the natural gas production platform Galata, offshore Varnaand the shallow water pipelay and heavy lift barge GSP Bigfoot 1. Traicho Traikov, the Bulgarian Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism was particularly interested while onboard GSP Bigfoot 1 about the welding and pipelay technologies and equipments used. The welding stations, the nondestructive equipment and the pipelay system as well as other last generation pieces of equipment were presented by GSP’s representatives onboard. The technical vessel GSP Bigfoot 1 was built in 2010 in GSP Shipyard, being endowed with the most modern technologies. The Bulgarian officials were transported from Varna Port by GSP Lyra. Another technical vessel mobilized on the offshore work location which attracted the interest of the officials was GSP Bigfoot 3, the offshore heavy lift and accommodation barge. The vessel was ensuring the technical support for the saturation diving system; the divers work for the pipeline spools connections both at the Galata production platform and the subsea wellheads Kavarna and Kaliakra.The visit of the Bulgarian Minister of Energy took place during the specific pipelay operations: the pipelay project includes the installation of 6-in and 10-in subsea pipelines from Kavarna and Kaliakra wellheads to the production platform. These operations GSP has carried out under the contract with Melrose Resources. According to the contract, the two pipelines, one 8.5, the other 14.5 kilometers long will transport the natural gas from the two subsea wells to Galata. The client’s objective is to start the production as soon as possible. Traicho Traikov, the Bulgarian Minister

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of Economy, Energy and Tourism, has declared during the visit:”It is our priority that these two wells start producing natural gas. The two wells have the capacity to produce 2.8 bcm of natural gas. This volume could cover approximately 1/6 of the Bulgarian annual internal gas demand for about five years. According to the plan, the production shall start this year.”According to the Bulgarian Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism, “approximately 15 – 20% of the internal demand shall be covered by the natural gas produced by three wells, two of them being the ones in Kavarna and Kaliakra perimeters. The internal production could sustain a price reduction. The natural gas from the internal production will be 30% cheaper than the price of the imported gas from Russia, the difference compensating the actual high price. This way the prices of the heating this winter shall not rise this winter”, has declared the Minister during his visit.

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Hydro-tecHnical and civil constructions department

The department’s objectives, as they have arisen from a short discussion with Stefan Muntoiu, Chief Officer of the hydro-technical and civil constructions department, are the following: engaging specialty services within a higher number of domestic and international large dimensions projects, in the domain of hydro-technical constructions, as well as the execution of civil constructions preponderantly mainly to fulfill the company’s internal needs. From the latter, Stefan Muntoiu has itemized the following: the rehabilitation of berth 34, the repairs foreseen for the operations base from Constanta North – Midia, after which it shall follow the 30 hectares development of the GSP Midia North operations base.„We are currently interested in two local hydro-technical projects of large dimensions, such as the project of extension of the breakwater with 1050 m in Constanta Harbour” tells us Stefan Muntoiu, “and the shore rehabilitation”.The specialists of the hydro-technical

and civil constructions department are currently involved as well in the operations which are carried out within the DLS project, the onshore part, in Russia. These are acting within the onshore pipe pulling activities. These activities are carried out with the assistance of the hydraulic equipments through the casing further to the horizontal directional drilling works. Our specialists are involved also in the activities of testing the entire pipe, the final tests, the pressure tests and the water tests. The pipe testing activity is carried out together with the subcontracting companies and the documentation for these operations is done by the representatives of WOS (Worldwide Offshore Solutions). From Stefan Muntoiu we are also learning which are the criteria for the selection of the specialists within the department he is managing: “First of all the experience in the hydro-technical and civil constructions domain. The people

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vast project, whose execution stages spread along many years, approximately ten, and its value is not negligible at all. We want to get involved in this project!” The internal market is coming now with a large number of projects whose execution has been delayed too long. If we are talking only about the Constanta Harbour north breakwater, of its execution depends the further development of the docks, with moles 3, 4 and 5, and the works for the artificial island can begin. The values of these projects are also significant, and we cannot afford to ignore such opportunities.On the external market it is easier to follow the way from the bid to the completion of the project for which you are employed. Unfortunately the bureaucracy is a major obstacle in the path of executing some projects of strategic significance for the development of economy in our area. And absolutely nobody gains anything from the never-ending delay of starting the execution of some high extent projects. Another obstacle is the one of disloyal competition. Still, we have faith that we shall succeed to break down the trammels because the objective of each member of my team is that of valorising as best as possible his professional capability”, concluded Stefan Muntoiu.

whom I am currently collaborating with have worked with me also in the projects I had been involved in before joining GSP. I know very well which are the capacities and the merits of each team member. Each project we have been involved in had been a school for each of us, had accentuated our knowledge and abilities, and had formed us as a team. With the same people I had worked at the north and south breakwater projects of Constanta Port, starting from 1999. I have also worked with them in the project of the containers terminal from Constanta Harbour’s Mol 2, and then we worked at a bridge which was executed in Constanta South. I have recorded an average of 2 or 3 collaborations with each of the current team’s members. In the selection of the personnel for the hydro-technical and civil constructions department we are confronting with the issue generated by the migration of the experienced manpower towards regions where the activity in our competence domain is more dynamic. In order to convince the specialists to join our team, it is necessary to align the remuneration conditions to those of the international market, to offer them home the financial advantages for which they could have accepted to work abroad. This is the first Romanian company for which we are working. The advantage that we are offering, within GSP, to some experienced specialists who wish to sign together with us objectives of major significance for this region, is that of reaching the international market’s level of wages without being necessary for the people to migrate abroad. This is an important advantage also for the Romanian economy, as the competences remain home and are valorised within some strategic projects for us.”Being asked which is the project that the specialists of the hydro-technical and civil constructions department intend to be associated with, Stefan Muntoiu answers without hesitation: “the inshore rehabilitation project. It is an extremely

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The training agenda of GSP Training Center in the first half of 2010 included the following courses:QA / QC training, up to date informationSSM training, up to date informationHandling the potentially dangerous goods during helicopter operations at the offshore drilling rigs / On-line trainingCourses conducted in collaboration with other training providers, CERONAV being among themIWCF training Training in X-COM controls operation in the driller’s cabin.Mirona Pantiru, program coordinator, highlighted for us the activities held in early 2010 at GSP Training Center: „The situation we evaluated in early August shows that GSP Training Center provided training services to a number of 464 participants: 244 GSP employees, 160 Navymar employees, 60 employees from other companies such as: TGT; Eekels, Hertel, DEN BREEJEN MASTER. Year 2010 has brought an increased demand for training services. How the trend in recent years is that of accurate assessment of the training quality level, our offer is becoming increasingly appreciated. Our customers are very interested in the real benefits of training programs, or we have proved that the

work done by GSP Training Center directly contributes to meeting the business goals of our partners.“GSP Training Center provided IWCF training in two sessions conducted in Congo Brazzaville Pointe Noire as well as in Istanbul. For these sessions carried out overseas has been mobilized the portable well control simulator DrillSIM 20.Cristiana Crivat, head of technical assistance compartment of GSP Training Center, added: „It should be noted that GSP Training Center is accredited since July 2010 as accredited IWCF training provider in Istanbul, Turkey and also in Pointe Noire, Congo. GSP Training Center has, consequently, two new areas in which regularly carries out training activities, apart from Constanta. In the two new locations, classes are conducted, the same manner we work in GSP Training Center, covering

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both theoretical and practical training, with the simulator support. This becomes possible due to the mobilization of the portable drilling simulator DrillSIM 20: it is moved for every new training session in both locations. GSP Training Center has conducted so far three training sessions abroad, one in Istanbul and two in Pointe Noire (between the 2nd and 6th of August and 23rd and 28th of August 28). On these occasions 30 drillers and drilling supervisors coming from Iraq and Congo have been trained.“Between the 23rd of August and the 3rd of September 2010 GSP Training Center housed two training sessions during which 10 Navymar employees were trained in Electronic Drilling Systems.GSP Training Center comes this fall with a much more extended training offer. Mirona Pantiru, programs coordinator and Cristiana Crivat, head of technical assistance Compartment have presented for us the scheduled training programs.

Project ManageMentGSP Training Center will continue the collaboration with Sebastian Cazacu; the project management training will be provided by GSP Training Center in partnership with TenStep Romania. We invite you to join in the training „Management of Successful Projects”, the course being dedicated to those professionals in any domain wishing to acquire practical project management skills. The training is offered under the auspices of REP accreditation (Registered Education Provider), TenStep Romania being the first Romanian company accredited by the Project Management Institute, since 2004. The course also benefits from the CNFPA accreditation under COR NATB 241 919 code „Project Manager”, participants receiving the Certificate of Authorized Project Manager, recognized by the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Protection and the Ministry of Education, Research and Innovation, as well as the descriptive supplement of the acquired skills. The

efficient organization and planning are two key requirements for successful implementation of projects.The „Management of Successful Projects” course helps you grow your business value!A large part of the activities of a company can be organized as projects. The ability to successfully define projects and then to successfully apply project management become key competencies for organizations. Project management is not simple and not a native skill. Fortunately, this knowledge can be acquired through training. Understanding and applying concepts and techniques presented in the course substantially improve success chances of projects.The course „Management of Successful Projects” addresses to:Project Managers,Members of project teams,Directors of departments,Personnel responsible for qualityEntrepreneurs.The offered training program answers a series of objectives to ensure that, on completion, the participants will be able to:Define the necessary elements to initiate a projectDevelop a Project PlanKnow and apply various techniques in the following areas: project monitoring and control, problems management, management of the entire coverage of the project, communication management, quality and performance indicators management, procurement management.Among the immediate benefits the training brings to the participants include:Delivery times reduction;Improved financial control;Increased quality level;Efficient use of resources;Predictability of economic outcomes;Improved customers and partners relations;Developing a performance-oriented organizational culture.

Welding SchoolGSP Welding School will open this autumn. It is already set as the welding school courses shall be conducted in English and Romanian (through the aid of a translator).The GSP Welding School courses address to welding professionals of the company, concerned about continuous performance improvement as well as to companies in need of international certification of their professional body. The training sessions provide theoretical knowledge and practical demonstrations and exercises, the mission of the courses being to ensure effective transfer of information, gain the required experience and skills. During the training sessions, the evaluation of the employees will be performed so that the measurement of competence level shall be made objectively, based on a set of predefined criteria. GSP Welding School curricula

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shall be annually reviewed in order to meet the need of effective support the development of the employees’ career, staff reaching higher skill levels.

gl acadeMy SeMinarS MaritiMe ManageMent SySteMS SeMinarS IntroductIon to the system of marItIme regulatIons Content: This module explains in detail international and regional conventions in the field of ship safety and protection of the marine environment, and their structure, content and application is presented. An overview regarding the various types of surveys and ships’ certificates is provided. Special emphasis will be placed on the implementation of amendments of regulations. The course objective is getting to know the system of maritime regulations. The one day training emphasizes: International and regional maritime regulating organizationsStructure, content and application of major conventionsOverview of survey types and intervals as well as types of certificatesAnalysis and implementation of amendments to regulationsApplication of tools developed by GL, such as IMO Pilot and checklistsThe seminar is GL Academy Certified and addresses to Shipping Companies: Technical managers (CTO), managing directors (CEO), superintendents, fleet managers, chief operating managers (COO), CSO, quality managers, designated persons, crewing managers, nautical officers, engineers, assistants (management, inspection, quality/ISM, crewing).latest amendments to marItIme regulatIons Content: This module introduces the recent changes to national, regional and international maritime regulations with respect to ship safety and the protection of the marine environment. The course objective is gaining knowledge of the latest developments as well as the consequences for the construction, equipment and operation of ships. The ½ day course emphasizes: Results of IMO committeesResults of regulatory conferences and sessions of EU committeesResults of selected flag statesResults of IACSFuture trends in maritime regulationsThe course is GL Academy Certified and its target groups are: Shipping Companies: Vice presidents, technical managers (CTO), managing directors (CEO), superintendents, fleet managers, chief operating managers (COO), CSO, quality managers, designated persons, crewing managers, nautical officers, engineersPort state control / BasIc Content Participants will learn the legal basics of port state controls. Using the current standards, ways of conducting efficient preparation are explained. The ½ day course objective is to ensure the participants will gain knowledge of how to avoid problems with PSC. The training emphasizesLegal backgroundOn board procedures

Dealing with deficienciesPreventive measuresThe course in GL Academy Certified and it addresses to the following target groups: Shipping Companies: Superintendents, quality managers, nautical officers, engineersImPlementatIon WorkshoP Ilo marItIme laBour conventIon Content: This workshop offers explanations and solutions for compliance with the ILO Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006). The requirements will be analyzed in detail and the relevant information for ship’s crew, ship managers and crewing managers will be discussed. Particular attention is paid to those areas of MLC, 2006 where individual conversion of ILO Member States (Flag Administration) is expected. The course objective is the acquisition of detailed knowledge about the requirements of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 and an understanding of how the requirements can be implemented. The 2 days training emphasizes: Background and development of MLC, 2006.Structure and contentsRequirements for ship managers, crewing managers and the operation of shipsImplementation in daily practiceApproaches for the implementation aboard and ashoreCertification and monitoringThe training is GL Academy Certified, its target groups being: Shipping Companies: Superintendents, fleet managers, crewing managers, nautical officers, engineers, assistants (crewing); Yard: Design managers, production managers, engineersBasIcs Iso 9001:2008 for shIPPIng comPanIes / BasIc / 1,0 day Content: This module contains a detailed discussion of the requirements of the ISO 9001:2008 standard with special emphasis on the International Safety Management (ISM) Code. In addition, participants receive practical advice for the implementation of integrated management systems. Possible ways of structuring

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and building up such a system are illustrated clearly with the use of forms and checklists. The 1 day course objective is to help participants will gain basic knowledge of the ISO 9001:2008 Standard and its implementation in the shipping industry. It emphasizes: Elements of the ISO 9001:2008 standardParallels with and differences to the ISM CodeIntegrated management system: ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004, ISM CodeThe course is GL Academy Certified and its target groups are: Shipping Companies: Quality manager, internal auditors, assistants (quality/ISM)Internal audItor Ism/Iso 9001:2008 for shIPPIng comPanIes Content: The different types and phases of

audit are introduced. The audit process is introduced by means of practical case studies related to shipping. Possible disputes occurring during audit performance are dealt with in a role play. The workshop is based on the recommendations for the qualification of auditors contained in ISO Standard 19011. The 2 days course objective is the qualification as internal auditor (ISM/ISO 9001:2008). The training emphasizes: Requirements ISM/ISO for auditorsPlanning, preparation and performance of auditsPeculiarities of shipboard auditsHandling of non-conformities and corrective actionsInterview techniques and social skills of auditorsThe training is GL Academy Certified, the course fulfilling the recommendations for the qualification of auditors contained in ISO Standard 19011. The target groups are: Shipping Companies: Superintendents, quality managers, internal auditors, nautical officers, engineerscomPany/shIP securIty offIcer (cso/sso) traInIng course

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Content: The course provides participants with the knowledge, understanding and proficiencies as required by the ISPS Code to undertake the tasks, duties and responsibilities as Company Security Officer (CSO) and/or Ship Security Officer (SSO). Practical case studies, exercises and videos are used to illustrate possible measures to comply with the maritime security requirements as laid down in the ISPS Code. Achievement of competencies is assessed by means of a final test. The course objective is providing internationally recognized qualification as Company Security Officer (CSO) and Ship Security Officer (SSO). The 2 days course emphasizes: Development and maintenance of Ship Security Plans (SSP) and supervisionAssessment of security risks, threats and vulnerabilityMonitoring the security measures on board shipsOperation, testing and calibration of security equipment and systemsEnhancing security awareness and vigilanceThe course is GL Academy Certified, approved by all major Flag States. This course meets the requirements of the ISPS Code, the requirements specified in the IMO. Model course 3.19 for Company Security Officer and 3.20 for Ship Security Officer and the requirements of the STCW Convention (Regulation VI/5). Its target groups are: Shipping Companies: CSO, SSOIsm 2010 amendments Content: At the 85th session of the IMO Maritime Safety Committee important amendments were made to the International Safety Management (ISM) Code which will come into effect on 1st July 2010 through resolution MSC.273(85). This module will inform about the revisions in details, how safety management systems will be affected and explain what actions are required by companies to ensure compliance. A practical case study is used to illustrate possible methods for assessing risks and establishing safeguards. The ½ day course objective is: gaining knowledge of the new amendments to the ISM Code, the interpretation of the requirements and their significance. The training emphasizes: Knowledge and understanding of the ISM Code amendmentsPractical application of basic risk assessment methods and risk control measuresPlanning and completion of renewal verification of SMCs within given time frameThe course is GL Academy Certified and its target groups consist in Shipping company personnel involved in safety and safety management systems: Safety managers, DPAs, superintendents, masters, nautical officers and engineers. Personnel in maritime administrations and training institutes.stcW 2010 amendments Content: In 2006 the IMO decided to thoroughly review the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW) to ensure that it will meet the challenges that the shipping industry will have to face in

the future. The amendments were finalized at the 41st session of the STW Sub-Committee and adopted at the Diplomatic Conference in June 2010. Within this module the most important amendments to the STCW Convention and the STCW Code are presented in detail. The participants are familiarized with these changes. New requirements for ships’ crews, shipping companies as well as for shipping administrations are introduced. Practical case studies are used to illustrate the new requirements. The course objective is facilitating the participants to learn about the amendments to the STCW Convention and the STCW Code. The ½ day course emphasizes: Introduction to the changes of the convention and the STCW CodeFirst indications about how to address the new requirementsSafe ManningThe course is GL Academy certified for attendance and the target groups include: Shipping Companies: Managing directors, fleet managers, superintendents, personnel managers, crewing personnel, masters, ship’s officers and engineers, lecturers of training institutions, staff of flag State administrations

courSeS for roV oPeratorSGSP Training Center was endowed in August with the third simulator. The new equipment is dedicated to training the ROV (Remote Operated Vehicle) operators. The simulator has the capacity to generate situations and scenarios in support of the development of the professional skills of the ROV operators. It also may support the process designing activities, procedures development, working methodologies. Hamish Thomson will be the trainer for the courses scheduled to begin this fall. The training will include both theoretical and practical modules. The course attendants will receive in/house certification.More details on GSP Training Center offer can be accessed at www.gsptrainingcenter.com.

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Cristinela Budin tells us the career development of the employees is a priority in her agenda. Cristinela Budin is highly recommended by the 20 years of leadership experience in human resources departments of companies such as Shell Gas Romania, Enel Romania and Rompetrol Rafinare. She graduated the Oil and Gas University, in Ploiesti, holding a B.A. degree in Refining and Petrochemicals. Mrs. Budin is member of HR Club, the association of human resources professionals in Romania, affiliated to the European Association for People Management (EAPM) and the World Federation of Personnel Management Associations (WFPMA).„In 1990 I started working in the department of human resources, being in charge of the relationship with the unions as well as of the personnel administration and payroll. It is true I have been working in several large companies, but I constantly remained in the energy domain.The experience I gained in these large companies, with complex structures

has great importance for me. Managing human resources is an enormous responsibility.“At only a few weeks after her arrival in GSP, we asked her about the objectives she has set. She quickly listed: „I have found in this short time I am here that my goals have proven to be common to the entire GSP’s management team. They are practically identical in the company’s development strategy and this situation makes me very happy. Among the main objectives that I proposed to meet in the near future, sustained both by the teams of the human resources department and of the training center are:• Further development of skills of the entire personnel:Achieving competitive advantage not only through investments for the acquisition of the latest generation equipment but also by investing in building knowledge and skills of all employees. The personnel knowledge and skills must move beyond the current level of meeting the current needs. We think the proactive development of skills and knowledge in order to successfully meet the future requirements of the integrated services market for the offshore industry.What I want to emphasize is that a competent professional body, who understands the importance of the continuous improvement succeeds in transferring as a synergistic sum these skills to the level of the entire organization. We want to emphasize that we have an organizational culture that continuously matter, the skilled human resource being a factor of economic stability and an unbeatable advantage: we shall focus on the competence of GSP’s main recognition factor as integrated services provider

Cristinela Budin, the new Chief Human resources Office

„i like TO GeT invOlved and TO find develOPmenT OPPOrTuniTieS fOr yOunG PeOPle wiTH POTenTial.“

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for the offshore industry. The training activities will be focused on the innovations in the field; this way we will ensure that the new equipment and technologies acquired can be exploited at their maximum efficiency level; we make sure that GSP is ready to face challenges. Today, the state of „organizational change“ represents the normality. Therefore, being constantly ready for the competition challenges, means to be ready at any time to „change”. It would be counterproductive to consider the organizational change has an episodic nature. We will maintain our market leading position only by counting on people prepared to cope with change, people who are constantly defined through their efficiency and the competence of their professional curricula. • Identification and training of young professionals with potential:We are committed to support young specialists in their career development and training. We consider the young graduates are pre-qualified as they can prove that they have a solid theoretical background and their career goals agree with the company needs. We will ensure that GSP will remain a competitive and dynamic company as long as learning, career development will occupy a central place in the concerns of employees, facilitating access to performance. It is very important to have young people who, in addition to a solid theoretical background, are able to gain the practical experience necessary to ensure the smooth exchange of generations. This process can successfully take place only with the involvement in training of the professionals who have reached levels of seniority. GSP currently has the ability to facilitate the experience transfer. Human resources are, with no doubt, the most important capital. Our task is to create an optimum environment to facilitate the transfer of knowledge from honored senior to the GSP’s young professionals. We have here at hand, a capital of a value very difficult to assess, the seniors’ experience, and we intend to put it to work more than it was done before. The optimal management of human resources and training processes will exert positive effects on the company’s business results.• designing a program for the personnel development and promotion, able to ensure the smooth generations exchange for management positions as well as for other „key“ positions within the organization:GSP’s human capital is the first resource for identifying future leaders: the future leaders of departments and compartments, the future project leaders are among us. We must ensure that they have, or will have in a given time the knowledge and skills required to take over the positions with a high degree of responsibility. The unlocking of the real potential of the human capital in an industry as demanding as the offshore industry is an element of strategic importance. We propose to identify the next generation of managers among us and assist them in their career development, in order to prepare the necessary resources to ensure the generation exchange in management. And here we

exploit the highly valued resources that seniors can offer in support of achieving this objective, an appropriate integrated development in the short / medium time, preparing the next managers echelon.• Development of the “Cadet” program:The “Cadetul” program benefits upon a special attention in my own and my management colleagues agendas. We shall take this program to a new level simultaneously with a more rigorous definition of its objectives and a new structure. A positive and gratifying fact is that now the program addresses to a greater number of graduates their specialization covering a larger panel. It is an advantage to be able to design and dimension the professional training program according to the specific needs of the operational and all the other departments. The purpose of the program is to facilitate the operational flexibility, through recruiting and retaining those specialists whose knowledge are closely seconded by a solid experience. We further recognize the importance of the individual competence and of the personal responsibility in daily activities. I shall encourage behaviors and attitudes that lead to the formation of competent professionals and responsible employees and we’ll gradually move the focus from the person to the team and we’ll identify the professionals mastering undeniable leadership qualities. If the human resources strategy has included these objectives from the start, we have decided to bring them to the fore, to reserve a central place in the company policy, for meeting them will give us confidence that GSP will be a company prepared for the future, for the change. The characteristic of learning company, already evident, will be better outlined, will become stronger.In the end I wish to take this opportunity to thank the entire staff of GSP, who showing support from the first day of my arrival here, helped me to integrate quickly and to be „plugged” to the realities of the company”, said Cristinela Budin.

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OffshOre drillers and sailOrs in sOlidarity with the flOOd victims Of ceatalchiOi, tulcea

The humanitarian action initiated by the Saturn Foundation in collaboration with the Free Union of GSP’s Employees (SLS GSP) has mobilized more than 250 union members, employees of GSP and Navymar who have made donations amounting to the significant 92,100 lei and 4565 USD to assist the victims of floods in the Tulcea county. Paul Cocos, the president of SLS GSP, told us: „We live not so calm times. The last thing we expect to see in times of calm and well-being suddenly becomes the first priority for a society facing disasters. People become united. And I’m talking about people helping other people they do not personally know but whose collective drama is so large that goes beyond the need of the personal contact. We were all moved by what the unleashed forces of the water left behind in Ceatalchioi, in Tulcea County. I was also moved by

how quickly people in GSP and Navymar responded. We, the Union, did simply join the current. What these people have made through their acts of donations surpassed all expectations. We try to meet people’s needs and the generosity shown by the sailors and offshore drillers is worthy of uncensored admiration. It is true that our action is marked by a profound sadness: the victims of floods always remind us that we are small in front of the nature forces, that our power cannot face by far the unleashed natural forces. Natural disasters leave behind long lists of needs: one is answered, and from behind hundreds of new needs arise. It is not easy. The sadness that I have talked about can be overcome when we realize that our common actions can change things, when we realize that we can unite in support of good causes, that we can join a coherent idea of supporting the positive change

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of a community. Individual donations are the ones who have pioneered this comprehensive action. The meaning of gestures generated by the sense of human solidarity is a reflection of each of the goodness residing in every donor. And the charitable gestures of all together, as this campaign has made it possible to be seen, opens a vast horizon of expression of the human kindness. Charity leads us to the true and important reason for which we are acting, for which we live. Charity builds works! The opera of the people I talk about consists in bringing back peace and safety in a community recovering from disaster. It began with individual actions, with limited means and everything turned into a coherent and fruitful action, with a program the results of which can be seen. My hope is that this campaign will become an example of involvement, will expand as a viable model for the whole society. I’d like that the action of the offshore drillers and sailors who were involved in this action will become a lesson to follow, a pattern to act. It would be a new work of solidarity. The most precious gift we can give, as representatives of a field of activity where only strong spirits last is the force resulting from our unity: we see how good gestures become more consistent in this unity. The offshore drillers and sailors are strong characters, impetuous spirits: once with the determination to help, they took into their responsibility finding solution to a multitude of problems arising from the disaster generated by forces of nature, because it seemed the right thing to be done, because solidarity is learned very well sea. Every contribution is important, no gesture, no donation was made in vain. Realizing that people are not alone in the harshest tests of life and of the forces of nature chase away the thought that efforts to fight the forces of nature could be in vain. The offshore drillers and sailors have decided this time to bear the load of others, to reduce their oppression, because no one can be enough to himself, people need support.

And now I would like to thank everyone who helped, especially because I know that these people acted led by their consciences, without waiting for thanks,“ concluded Paul Cocos. The Saturn Foundation Director, Nicu Dranca, wanted to fill in with more details about the project as well as information on actions taken so far: „The project Ceatalchioi – The village under the water” was initiated after the tragedy taking place in June, when the Danube broke the surrounding levees of Ceatalchioi village, flooding 60% of village households. We then went to the scene by boat, the road being under the waters. Together with the village priest we went on boat to make an assessment of the disaster. We identified then a number of 20 houses totally destroyed and several others having the resistance structure seriously damaged. Together with the members of the Saturn Foundation Board we decided organizing a fundraising campaign to help families who lost their houses. Subsequently, the Romanian Government has donated building materials necessary for the reconstruction of houses and the Saturn Foundation will equip the reconstructed houses with furniture and household appliances, also completing with building materials where necessary. Next week we will go there with a second shipment of aids for the 20 families whose houses collapsed. Along with Saturn Foundation were involved in the project many individuals and institutions such as: SLS GSP, Grup Servicii Petroliere S.A., Hotel Vega, Navymar, the Orthodox Church „Sf.Ioachim and Ana“ in Constanta and many others. In this way we thank all those who have been united with us and invite them to access at the beginning of November the address www.fundatiasaturn.ro, the Saturn Foundation website, to see the results of this humanitarian campaign. I also invite all those with led by faith to support us, as many people put to a cruel test of life need our help,” said in conclusion Nicu Dranca