SESME announces executive appointments

Robin Perry, currently Regional Vice President for SESME's parent organization SEACOR Environmental Services International, will also become Managing Director of SESME and Simon Waterman will become General Manager of its Fujairah-based oil spill response centre.

Mr. Perry brings 25 years of international oil spill response experience to the business. Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Perry worked in the UK North Sea and later, as General Manager of Oil Spill Response Limited (OSRL), the oil industry response organisation based in Southampton UK, and was responsible for the major development of its response consultancy and training capabilities.

During this time OSRL responded to more than 50 spills in Europe, the US, Australia, Africa and the Far East. Before joining the offshore oil industry with British Petroleum, Mr. Perry served in the British Royal Navy, and after training at the Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth, he served in various seagoing and flying appointments culminating in command of the minehunter, HMS Brereton.

Mr. Waterman has lived and worked in the region for the past 3 years. He was most recently the Health, Safety and Training Manager for Gulftainers Ltd, responsible for the Ports of Khor Fakkan, Mina Khalid, Sharjah Inland Container Depot and Gulftainer Transport Companies, where he developed the training, health and safety and security programmes for this large and growing company. Prior to that, he worked in port operations at the large container port of Felixstowe in the UK, after military service in the British Royal Air Force and Army.

Randall Blank, CEO of SESME's parent group, remarked, "these appointments mark an important milestone in the continuing development of the company's operations in the Gulf States Region. Already one of the most experienced and equipped emergency response service providers in the world, SESME is now bringing its world class capabilities and best practices to its three, strategically located response bases in the region: Mussafah in Abu Dhabi in cooperation with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), Fujairah on the Gulf of Oman, and a small but growing base in Bahrain to service the Northern Gulf."

Recently SESME signed a memorandum of understanding to provide major spill response and ancillary services to the ADNOC and its subsidiaries.

SESME was established to satisfy the clearly stated requirement of the Gulf oil companies to site a major response base in the region. Its development would mean they no longer need to rely on long distance support from overseas.

Mr. Perry commented, 'We are focused on developing a world class oil and hazardous material response organisation that will plug the yawning response capability gap in the Gulf, the Caspian region and the Gulf of Oman as well as the surrounding seas and oceans. As the producer of the majority of the world's oil and increasingly, petrochemicals, the Gulf region has long suffered from the lack of a permanent professional spill response capability.'