Offshore Technology Symposium

Innovations and industry know-how have bloomed over the last few decades. Fixed platforms reach multiple thousands feet of water depths using compliant towers. Spars and TLPs have allowed dry trees in up to 5,000 feet; drill ships are stationed for weeks on DP, and we currently drill in over 10,000 feet of water depth.

Areas of activities have increased as well! The North sea and the gulf of Mexico are no longer the epicenter of offshore activities. Oil reserves are now coming significantly online from West Africa and Brazil, while gas from Australia and Qatar is being transported worldwide in tankers that have tripled their capacity over the past couple of decades.

The offshore industry's move into the deeper waters has created a need for innovation. We are however only at the forefront of the challenges. In the next decades, we will be active in harsher environments, including icebergs, even deeper waters, and will have to deal with more and more stringent legislations. We will need to continue improving our safety records, and be more environmentally aware. GHG and LCA will become common acronyms in our PowerPoint presentations, and we will discuss carbon footprint level s just as much as the trading price of an oil barrel.

The offshore symposium continues to stand ready to provide the necessary forum to link the present and the future of our industry. Traditional and new sessions will be available in key areas of current and future interest in the offshore field. Design methodology, analytical tools, experimental techniques, structural and hydrodynamic modeling, applications in deepwater technology, and challenges for safe operations are some of the key topics discussed in the OFT symposium.

The Offshore symposium and the OOAE division are also honored to present the:

Subrata Chakrabarti Young Lecturer Award

This award, given, in commemoration of our distinguished colleague, is to be given each year at the OMAE conference and is aimed at recognizing a young professional who has presented an outstanding paper in Subrata’s original symposium.

 

Symposium Coordinator:

Advisory committee

§         Bas Buchner • MARIN • B.Buchner@marin.nl

§         R.Cengiz Ertekin • University of Hawaii at Manoa • United States • ertekin@hawaii.edu

§         Tim Finnigan • Chevron • United States • TimFinnigan@chevron.com

§         Mamoun Naciri • Single Buoy Moorings • Monaco • Mamoun.Naciri@sbmoffshore.com

 

Floating Platforms

§         David Brown • BPP-TECH •United Kingdom • d.brown@bpp-tech.com

§         Jose Ferarri • Petrobras SA • Brazil • jferrari@petrobras.com.br

§         Takeshi Kinoshita • University of Tokyo • Japan • kinoshit@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

§         Bonjun Koo • Technip • United States • bkoo@technip.com

§         Steve Leverette  • SBM Atlantia • United States • steve.leverette@sbmoffshore.com

§         John Murray • FloaTEC • United States • jmurray@floatec.com

§         Jan Van Kessel • Delft University of Technology • Netherlands • j.l.f.vankessel@tudelft.nl

§         Dagang Zhang • INTECSEA • United States • dzhang@dmar-engr.com

 

Fixed platforms

§         Partha Chakrabarti • Zentech • United States • parthac@zentech-usa.com

§         Michael  Gachet • SBM-Gusto • Netherlands • michael.gachet@gustoMSC.com

§         Bogdan Iwanowski • FORCE Technology • Norway • boi@forcetechnology.no

§         Myung Hyun Kim • Pusan National University • Korea (Republic) • kimm@pusan.ac.kr

 

Hydrodynamics

§         Xiao-Bo Chen • bureau veritas • France • xiao-bo.chen@bureauveritas.com

§         Don Danmeier • Chevron • United States • DDanmeier@chevron.com

§         Antonio C. Fernandes • UFRJ-COPPE- PENO • Brazil • acfernandes@peno.coppe.ufrj.br

§         Bernt J. Leira • Norwegian University of Science and Technology • Norway • bernt.leira@ntnu.no

§         Sime Malenica • Bureau Veritas • France • sime.malenica@bureauveritas.com

§         Alexandre N. Simos • University of São Paulo • Brazil • alesimos@usp.br

§         Longbin Tao • Newcastle University • United Kingdom • L.Tao@ncl.ac.uk

 

Ships and Ship Dynamics

§         Bertrand Alessandrini • ECNantes • France • bertrand.alessandrini@ec-nantes.fr

§         Bas Buchner • MARIN • Netherlands • B.Buchner@marin.nl

§         Fabien Remy • EC Marseille • France • fabien.remy@ec-marseille.fr

 

LNG Challenges

§         Hannes Bogaert •MARIN • Netherlands • hbogaert@marin.nl

§         Haiping He •ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co. • United States • haiping.he@exxonmobil.com

§         Jerry Huang • ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co. • United States • jerry.huang@exxonmobil.com

§         BookiKim •ABS • China • bkim@eagle.org

§         Jang Whan Kim • Technip • United States • jwkim@technip.com

§         Fabrizio Pistani • University of Western Australia • Australia • fpistani@mech.uwa.edu.au

§         Robert Seah • Chevron • United States • RSeah@chevron.com

§         Krish Thiagarajan • The University of Western Australia • Australia • Krish.Thiagarajan@uwa.edu.au

 

Mooring , Anchoring and Station Keeping

§         Alexia Aubault • Marine Innovation & technology • United States • Alexia.aubault@marineitech.com

§         Yannis Chatjigeorgiou • NTUA • Greece • chatzi@naval.ntua.gr

§         Jim Lye •BPP-TECH • United States • j.lye@bpp-tech.com

§         Basim Mekha • Cuneiform Offshore Consulting • United States • bmekha@cuneiform-offshore.com

§         Flavia Rezende • Bureau Veritas • France • flavia.rezende@bureauveritas.com

§         Anil Sablok • Technip • United States • asablok@technip.com

 

Metocean

§         George Foristall • Forristall Ocean Engineering • United States • george@forocean.com

§         John Heideman • Consultant • United States • Heidat3642@aol.com

§         Jaap-Harm Westhuis • SBM Gusto • Netherlands • jaap-harm.westhuis@sbmoffshore.com

 

Subsea Systems

§         Christopher Barton • McDermott • United States • cbarton@mcdermott.com

§         Howard Wang • ExxonMobil Development Co. • United States • howard.h.wang@exxonmobil.com

 

Drilling • Risers and Flow assurance

§         Peimin Cao • SBM Atlantia • United States • Peimin.Cao@sbmoffshore.com

§         Vikas Jhingran • Shell Exploration and Production • United States • vikas.jhingran@shell.com

§         Kostas Lambrakos • Technip • United States • KLambrakos@technip.com

§         Jae Myung Lee • Pusan National University • Korea (Republic) • jaemlee@pusan.ac.kr

§         Charlotte Saltner • The Offshore Partners • Netherlands • CSa@theoffshorepartners.com

§         Shan Shi • Houston Offshore • United States • sshi@houston-offshore.com

 

Offshore Field Development

§         Tim Finnigan • Chevron • United States • TimFinnigan@chevron.com

§         Denby Morrison • Shell International E & P • United States • denby.morrison@shell.com

§         Mamoun Naciri • Single Buoy Moorings • Monaco • Mamoun.Naciri@sbmoffshore.com

§         Oriol Rijken • SBM Atlantia • United States • oriol.rijken@sbmatlantia.com

§         Neil Williams • Wison • United States • neil.williams@wisonfs.com

 

Model testing

§         Hans Cozijn • Marin • Netherlands • J.L.Cozijn@marin.nl

§         Pierre Ferrant • ECNantes • France • Pierre.Ferrant@ec-nantes.fr

§         Shan Huang • Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde • United Kingdom • shan.huang@strath.ac.uk