For the Operator Who Does Have and Does Not Have a SIMOPS Plan in Place The Operator/Client who hires this vessel should get with the project team as discussed earlier and try to collect as much information about the vessel and pass to the other vessels operating in the field at the time of this vessel being in the field. Case Example Surprise Vessel Pipelay was ongoing on a project when a phone call came in at 0200 asking what the heck (profanity) is a seismic vessel doing out here. We are shutdown, do you know how much this is costing us, find out who the vessel is working for. I asked, what is the name of the vessel I woke up all of the client project managers asking them to check with their geophysicist to see if they had a gunboat working while I looked for the owner/operator of the vessel. Well we all found out that the vessel was working for no one at the time, it was a spec shoot. The data they were collecting they had ambitions of selling to the client that they stopped all work on.
