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Text II The Underwater Centre secures its biggest ever contract – worth $1.3million - to train Russian saturation divers Your Oil and Gas News Magazine The world’s leading commerci

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CESGRANRIO · 2012

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The Underwater Centre secures its biggest
ever contract – worth $1.3million - to train Russian
saturation divers


Your Oil and Gas News Magazine


The world’s leading commercial diver and Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) training facilitya, based in the Scottish Highlands and Australiab, has secured its biggest ever contractc – worth US$ 1.3 million – to train Russian saturation diversd. The award cements its reputation as a major service provider for the growing worldwide oil and gas industrye.


The men, already experienced air divers, were trained on saturation procedures and techniques and will receive the Australian Diver Accreditation Scheme (ADAS) and the Closed Bell certification. More advanced than the ADAS, the Closed Bell is the certification appropriate to deep water dives of 60 meters / 200 feet, using a trimix tank with 16 percent oxygen (O2).


During the training, divers lived in a chamber for up to 28 days, which was pressurized to the same pressure of the sea, exactly at the depth that they will be working at. Living and working at pressure mean that they can be transported quickly and efficiently to the work site under the water without decompression stops, allowing divers to work in much greater depths and for much longer periods of time.


MRTS Managing Director Alexander Kolikov said: “Oil and gas firms in Russia are currently facing a skills shortage due to the rapidly increasing amount of exploration work underway at the moment. By investing in the training of our divers in saturation diving, we are addressing this need for experts in maintenance and repair activities vital to maintaining Russia’s subsea infrastructure.”


Steve Ham, General Manager at the Fort William Centre said: “We were delighted when MRTS chose The Underwater Centre to train its divers in saturation diving, and I think this is testament to the hard work we have been putting in to ensure our reputation as a world-class training facility.


Available at: <http://www.youroilandgasnews.com/news_item. php?newsID=79107>. Retrieved on: 28 June 2012. Adapted.

 

In Text II, the possessive pronoun its refers to

  1. commercial diver and Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) training facility
  2. Scottish Highlands and Australia
  3. biggest ever contract
  4. Russian saturation divers
  5. oil and gas industry
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No trecho, o pronome possessivo its refere‑se ao próprio centro de treinamento — isto é, à facility que é sujeito da oração.

Observe a frase: "The world’s leading commercial diver and Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) training facility ... has secured its biggest ever contract." O pronome aparece imediatamente após o verbo vinculado ao sujeito da oração.

Gramaticalmente, o antecedente de um possessivo costuma ser o subject que realiza a ação. Aqui, o centro de treinamento ("facility") é quem has secured o contrato, portanto its indica posse desse centro.

Teste de substituição: trocar its por "the facility's" mantém o sentido natural da frase ("the facility's biggest ever contract"), confirmando que o antecedente é o centro de treinamento.

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