New Technical Director Appointed for IMCA
Richard Benzie has been appointed technical director of the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) to replace Jane Bugler who retires at the end of September 2015 after 18 years in the role. He will join IMCA in the near future.
Richard joined the industry in 1981 working first as a Mud-logging Equipment field service engineer. He then moved into ROV operations and spent eight years with Wharton Williams (2W) Ltd before moving to Rockwater Ltd as ROV project manager and Subsea manager, spanning a period of nearly five years. Six years at Stolt Offshore then followed where he became Group manager – Mobile Assets after roles as ROV Support Engineer and ROV Manager.
He was Asset Manager at Thales Geosolutions at the start of the century and in 2001 Richard moved to Technip Offshore where he spent seven years on the DSVi Contract, a multi-Client Saturation Diving call-off Project; initially as Project Engineer, subsequently as Team Leader and finally as project manager; before moving to Subsea 7 as Global ROV Manager, from 2009 until 2014. Latterly at Eunoia Services Aberdeen he has undertaken business and operations management consultancy in the oil and gas subsea sector before taking up the position of Global ROV Services Manager at Forum Energy Technologies.
