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Proforma Safety, LLC Proforma PSI…when performance counts. Proforma Safety's Mike Arnold Reviews Company Successes; Plans for FutureFebruary 2008 As 2008 kicks off, Proforma Safety International once again has been called upon to furnish offshore safety services and training to a variety of oil and gas industries. Global geophysical companies operating survey vessels offshore have experienced a renewed business surge due to advance technologies in data gathering and processing. Proforma Safety will be there -- just as it has been involved in offshore safety for 32 years -- spanning operations in drilling, production, pipe/umbilical lay, sub-sea completions, sea-bed installations, heavy lifts and anchor handling to name only a few. Since 1995, Proforma Safety has conducted vessel HSE audits/inspections and supplied HSE advisors and consultants to companies like Western, Geco/Prakla, CGG, Halliburton, Teledyne and Digicon to name a few. One long-standing Proforma Safety client/company is Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) of Norway, a leader in the offshore seismic industry with both advanced designed vessels and cutting-edge technology. Serving as PGS’s primer HSE vessel auditor, Proforma has been called on to inspect and qualify in rapid succession, 11 seismic vessels since November. This upswing in vessel requirements was to meet PGS’s growing demand in both its domestic and foreign markets. By conducting marine HSE vessel audits under both Proforma’s Specific Vessel Inspection Certification and IMCA-149, Version VI formats, the client and vessel operator receive the most advanced and detailed Audit/Inspection Reports available in the industry. Proforma’s S.W.A.T. (Safe Work Awareness Team) auditors are qualified in all classes and tonnage of vessel inspections and document verification as well as the vessels specific operational requirements. This same expertise carries over into other audit/inspections performed by Proforma for offshore drilling rigs, various facility safety surveys and air/sea/land transportation (logistics) safety. We also signed a formal contract with Remedial Offshore Limited of Houston and the Bahamas for training services. Proforma will be conducting some 26 different courses of instruction in both standard industry safety and Remedial/Proforma specifically designed HSE training for special operations. The majority of the training will be conducted at the Shell Robert Training facility in Robert, Louisiana for the more than 280 new crew members being assembled to man the four innovated jack-up designed rigs now being built in the US, Japan and China. Remedial will operate for major clients in the US, Mexico, Indonesia and other offshore sectors of the world. Proforma Safety will be completing its six-year HSE Service Agreement contract with BP’s Thunder Horse Project in the Gulf of Mexico later this year. Scott Arnold, Vice President of Operations and Thunder Horse HSE Lead, has successfully overseen the safety of the TH Project from its very beginning and was instrumental in establishing one of the best project safety records in BP’s history. Proforma oversaw the safety for Thunder Horse during much of its fabrication, construction, installation and testing phases of the sub-sea systems as well as HSE assistance on the PDQ platform. Leading a Proforma S.W.A.T. group of 23 safety professionals and HSE advisors, Arnold was proud to report to BP’s top management the achievement of an impressive 13,999,773 man hours as of February 1, 2008, with a TRIR of .031 and with no lost time incidents (DAFWC). We are proud of these successes, and especially of our dedicated S.W.A.T. team members who demonstrate every day their commitment to ensuring our client work is conducted according to the highest standards for safe practices. I speak for all of them in saying we appreciate our clients' business, and look forward to serving them this year and into the future. Sincerely, Mike Arnold
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