OPITO 7025 · OIM Controlling Emergencies
A drill for OIM emergency command.
The candidate sits as OIM and gives orders, by push-to-talk voice or typed, to a twelve-role crew. Every word is recorded. Every fact is held in a ledger the model cannot change.
What it replaces
OPITO 7025 is assessed in a control room simulator exercise, with instructors role-playing the crew.
This drill replaces the role-played crew, not the assessor.
The crew
Twelve roles: the eleven on the platform, and the Master of the standby vessel on VHF.
- 01CRO
- 02Deputy OIM
- 03Production Supervisor
- 04Off-Duty CRO
- 05Safety Man
- 06Emergency Response Team Leader
- 07Medic
- 08Deck Supervisor / HLO
- 09Deck Crew
- 10Camp Boss
- 11Radio Operator
- 12ERRV Master, on VHF
They comply, never coach and never invent facts.
The OIM is the only variable.
C06 · Tanker collision · BG1A
The live scenario
A laden tanker, not under command, sets onto the fixed platform BG1A at eight knots: thirty-seven and a half minutes to impact.
The OIM must sound the GPA and muster, find five missing men and recover a casualty, shut the platform in, work the beach, the Coastguard and the shore, sound PAPA, and board and launch both freefall boats into the standby vessel’s lee before she strikes.
ProEquipAI’s film on the drill, aligned to OPITO 7025. 12 minutes.
The record
Agent speaks, ledger rules
The crew’s words come from a model. POB, stage, completed tasks and the ending are database rows the model cannot change.
Every word in both directions is logged verbatim. A debrief scores the transcript against the 7025 criteria, citing each finding to a turn number.
You cannot predict a sentence.
You can audit every one.
The first completed drill
16 August 2026, a helicopter hard landing: 31 orders, 39 replies, stand-down, scored debrief.
The audit found no invented facts, numbers or names. POB closed on 72. All 25 citations matched the transcript.
Who built it
Ian Simpson went to sea with Ben Line in 1979 and has spent over forty years in marine and offshore operations, more than thirty-five of them in command. He holds the UK MODU Master and OIM certification and the OPITO assessor award.
In 1990 he was Barge Master and stand-in OIM on a deepwater rig for Diamond Offshore, West of Shetland, and was seconded to the Aberdeen office to prepare the fleet’s first Safety Cases under the post-Piper Alpha regime.
In August 1997 he was called in as Emergency OIM on the jack-up Sneferu, off Egypt, after a blowout. He worked alongside the Adair well-control team on the removal and re-installation of the BOP until the rig was safe.
In 2006 he set up and ran the OIM and CRO training facility at QISC in Doha, installing the control room simulators himself and running Major Emergency Management evaluations in the Gulf. He then ran Millennium Offshore Services, a seven-rig jack-up contractor turning over a hundred million dollars a year at its peak. From 2010 to 2015, as Managing Director of ISS in Ajman, he trained and assessed OIMs and boardroom crisis teams across the Gulf.
He founded ProEquipAI in 2024 to build the drill he could never staff.
Status
ProEquipAI is seeking OPITO’s view on the development of this instrument. It is not an OPITO assessment, is not presented as one, and will not be offered as one without OPITO. The evidence file from a completed drill is available to OPITO on request.
Ian Simpson, Director · ian@proequipai.com