Offshore and industrial safety training in Kochi for Navi Mumbai teams

The Uran peninsula, at the south-eastern end of the Navi Mumbai region, is where offshore production meets the shore. ONGC's Uran plant is the onshore terminal for the Mumbai High fields: a 30-inch oil line and a 28-inch gas line, together about 204 km, were laid from the field to replace an older trunkline that had reached the end of its design life. Crude is stabilised at the terminal, and gas and condensate are processed to recover LPG, C2/C3 and naphtha; an expansion package awarded in 2010 added a gas sweetening unit and an LPG recovery unit. Most people employed here are onshore operators, technicians and shutdown contractors, who need plant-side certificates such as H2S awareness and permit to work far more often than helicopter escape. Engineers whose work orders cover both the terminal and the platforms may be asked for an offshore induction as well.

Across the creek, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) was commissioned on 26 May 1989. It lists five container terminals and says it handles about half the containerised cargo of India's major ports. Its liquid jetty is a twin berth built by a BPCL and IOCL consortium and working since October 2002, taking vessels up to 120,000 DWT, with 23 pipelines running to tank farms for petroleum products, edible oil, chemicals and acids. A container terminal rarely needs an offshore induction. The liquid berths, the tank farms behind them and the multi-product SEZ are where fire watch, hazardous-materials handling, oil-spill response and permit-to-work discipline count. Tug, launch and bunkering crews are more likely to be asked for first aid and firefighting.

Inland, the Trans-Thane Creek (TTC) MIDC estate along Thane-Belapur Road covers about 27 sq km, and the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board lists chemicals, dyes and dye intermediates, bulk drugs, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, petrochemicals and engineering units among its occupiers. Taloja MIDC, between Panvel and Kharghar and close to the port, is mainly a chemical estate with food processing and engineering alongside. The courses that fit these shop floors are permit to work, lockout and tagout, hazardous materials, fire watch and risk assessment, with Basic H2S for any process that can release the gas. Apart from H2S, these are iMost certificates rather than OPITO ones.

Navi Mumbai is also a seafarer town. The Indian Maritime University's Navi Mumbai campus at Karave, Nerul, is the shore-based successor to Training Ship Chanakya and has belonged to the university since 2008. Short-course institutes and crewing agencies cluster around CBD Belapur and Vashi; confirm any agency's licence on the DG Shipping site before paying anything. Cadets and junior seafarers building a first CV usually add an offshore induction when they move from ships to platforms: T-BOSIET for warm-water western offshore work, BOSIET with EBS when the job could involve the North Sea or a client who names the standard version.

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Planning a group booking

• Corporate accounts at portal.imostacademy.in/register cover team logins, rate-card pricing, group bookings, statements and renewal tracking for your whole roster.
• Invoices carry GST; credit terms follow a credit assessment.
• Split a unit's staff across two batches so the plant or terminal is never without trained cover; ask our team about dates around your shutdown.