OPOL Appoints Charles Taylor for Administration/Financial Services
Oil industry company Offshore Pollution Liability Association Limited (OPOL) has appointed Charles Taylor to provide administrative and financial services following a competitive tender. All offshore operators currently active in exploration and production on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf are party to a voluntary oil pollution compensation scheme known as OPOL. It applies to all offshore facilities from which there is a risk of a discharge of oil causing pollution damage.
Halyard Chairman Takes the Plunge for Swanage RNLI
Halyard Marine’s Chairman, James Grazebrook has completed a 170-meter abseil down Portsmouth’s 550-foot Spinnaker Tower. James Grazebrook, founder of South Coast based marine exhaust specialists, Halyard, and four other brave RNLI committee members, Richard Acland, Alistair Groom, Marcus Trinick and Mark Waterhouse joined forces on Saturday, May 25 to take part in the Spinnaker abseil to raise much-needed funds for an upgraded lifeboat station at Swanage. To upgrade the boathouse for the arrival of the new Shannon class all-weather lifeboat…