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News archive
An overview of Top Side Offshore Technology's news items
Hyundai Heavy Industries chooses Top Side Offshore Technology
November 11th, 2011 – Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (HHI) based in Ulsan, South Korea, has selected Top Side Offshore Technology - the Netherlands, to supply the full CCTV package for the four Ultra Deepwater Drill Ships HHI is building for Noble Drilling.
AAA Rating
September 2011 - Top Side Offshore Technology has been awarded the Graydon triple A rating and is officially a financially healthy company.
All eyes on safety
May 3, 2011 - Extra pairs of eyes – in this case mechanical – are watching out for safety lapses on floating platforms and rigs, according to Netherlands-based Top Side Offshore Technology.
Top Side’s cameras can be found on deep-water drilling rigs and floating production platforms, including FPSOs. The company has sold cameras to Allseas, Petrobras, Maersk Drilling, Transocean, Diamond Offshore, Ensco and SBM. Shell has installed dozens of different sizes and types of cameras everywhere from the tip of crane booms to the monkeyboard on its tension-leg platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. “We supplied some equipment to BP Mad Dog (spar), we did the Noble Danny Adkins, the Noble Jim Day,” Top Side managing director Arie Rolloos said today at the OTC conference in Houston. “We did Thunder Horse.”
Representative in India
March 14, 2011 - We are happy to announce that Empire Industrial Equipment is our new representive in India. Empire Industrial Equipment is part of Empire Industries Ltd, is founded in 1900 and has offices in Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad and New Delhi. They are active in the offshore oil & gas industry, ports & shipyards, power generation, (petro)chemical industry and steel production.
Operational criteria for CCTV systems
January 21, 2011 - Creating awareness and improving safety are both ongoing concerns and continuous processes in the offshore industry. It involves not only safer equipment, better-trained people and tailored regulations, but safety monitoring as well. Closed-Circuit TeleVision (CCTV) systems are proving to be an important monitoring tool!
Seafloor monitoring system
January 21, 2011 - Sidus Solutions, our sister company from San Diego - USA, has developed the innovative Seafloor Observer camera system, featuring remote positioning, lighting, video and still photography through a single Ethernet cable at depths up to 3000 meters.
CCTV specialists join forces!
March 19, 2010 - Arie Rolloos & Hans Rolloos, directors of Top Side Offshore Technology and Leonard Pool of Sidus Solutions based in San Diego are proud to announce that Top Side Offshore Technology, specialist in CCTV, safe load, weighing and control systems has invested in Sidus Solutions by acquiring a major portion of their shares. This allows Top Side Offshore Technology to have a strong partner in the USA and a partnership that compliments their current product range with subsea cameras, lights, lasers and positioning systems. This merger now provides the industry with turnkey CCTV packages for various applications with the highest level of service and support by both companies.
Largest CCTV system installed on Noble Paul Wolff
July 14, 2009 - Top Side Offshore Technology has successfully commissioned their largest CamPro IP rig cctv system so far. The system is installed on the semi submersible drilling rig Noble Paul Wolff and contains 60 cameras, 9 monitors stations and a 4 Terabyte Network Video Recorder. In this project, the driller cctv, marine cctv and surveillance cctv system are combined into one package. The CamPro IP technology made it possible that Noble now has only 1 system instead of 3. The installation took place during the shipyard period in Angra dos Reis, Brazil.
Large order Seadrill
March 9, 2009 - Seadrill is going to outfit all their cranes in the fleet with crane boom tip camera systems. Netherlands based Top Side Offshore Technology has been selected to supply the Orlaco cctv product. This 34 camera system project is part of a refurbishment program to improve the safety level on board the Seadrill drilling rigs. Top Side Offshore Technology has been chosen as supplier, because of the quality of the equipment and their impressive track records in the oil & gas industry. Not only the crane camera systems, but also their derrick – and rig cctv systems are manufactured to the highest quality level.
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