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You are invited to join colleagues from industry, academia and government at the 27th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2008) which will be held at the Estoril Congress Centre, in Estoril, Portugal between 15-20 June 2008.
The event is organised by ASME International, the OOAE Division of the International Petroleum Technology Institute (IPTI), and the Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon), through its Unit of Marine Technology and Engineering and is sponsored by various professional associations of many countries.
The objective of this annual international event is to provide a forum for the scientific and industrial community from around the world to meet and present advances in technology and its scientific support, to exchange ideas and experience whilst promoting technological progress and its application in industry as well as international cooperation in ocean, offshore and arctic engineering.
The Conference proceedings will be indexed in the ISI Web of Knowledge.
The Conference will have nine traditional Symposia and will be complemented by four Special Symposia
Industrial Workshop on Advances on Strain-Based Designs of Pipelines
Safe and economic development of hydrocarbons resources in remote challenging environments (e.g. arctic, seismic, subsea high
pressure/temperature) will potentially require advances in pipeline design and materials engineering. Some of the pipeline related technical challenges associated with the development of these resources are the need for accommodating large deformations due to permafrost related frost heave & thaw settlement, earthquake induced surface ground motions, and thermal buckling and cycling of flowlines.
To address these technical challenges, several major efforts related to strain-based design of pipelines are currently being undertaken by the industry, consultants, and pipe steel suppliers. In order to provide a forum for discussion on some of the recent advances with development of strain-based design methods, a one-day workshop will be conducted at OMAE 2008. Primary objective of this workshop is to bring together technical experts from various organizations working in the area of strain-based designs to present their recent technical developments and to engage in discussions on potential codified methods and associated technology needs. Some topics of interest at this workshop, include, computational and experimental methods for characterization and verification of strain capacity, ECA methods to address strain-based designs, welding & joining technologies, line pipe
developments.
Organizer: Jaime Buitrago, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company - Houston
Email: j.buitrago@exxonmobil.com
For the second year, the Outreach to Engineers Specialty Forum is planned to run during the OMAE Conference in Estoril.
Plenary Session - Monday, 16th June 2008
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Plenary Keynote lecture:
Near Term Challenges for Offshore Energy Developments
Jim O'Sullivan is Vice President of Technip SA in charge of their worldwide Offshore Facilities Product Line & Technologies and is stationed in Paris. Mr. O'Sullivan is responsible for managing all the company's surface facility products that include developing and launching new technologies, along with supporting established products. He has 34 years of experience in the oil & gas industry, covering technology development, engineering, project management, commercial project development and multiple business related activities. He received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University, a Masters in Ocean Engineering from MIT, a Professional Ocean Engineers Degree from MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and an MBA from Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business.
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Plenary Keynote lecture:
Subsea processing and long-range multiphase transport - the next steps
Roald Byhre Sirevaag has a Masters' degree in Petroleum Production and Diploma in Business Administration.
He has 7 years experience from Norsk Hydro drilling department; 16 years in the Statoil subsea department; and, 1 year in StatoilHydro subsea department.
He has performed diverse functions within engineering, line- and project management. He is presently chief engineer for StatoilHydro Subsea Technology and Operation.
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Plenary Keynote lecture:
Pre-Salt Reservoirs Offshore Brazil: Perspectives and Challenges
Solange Guedes graduated in Civil Engineering from the Federal University of "Juiz de Fora", Brazil, in 1982. She concluded a specialization in Fuel Oil Production Engineering in 1986 at the Petrobras University; the Master's degree in Civil Engineering at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1988; and her PhD degree in 1998 in Fuel Oil Engineering at the State University of Campinas, São Paulo.
Dr. Solange Guedes held the position of Executive Manager for Petrobras in the area in the North and Northeast Brazil between February 2003 and April 2008. She is currently the Executive Manager of Exploration and Production of Production Engineering for E&P in Brazil.
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ACCOMPANYING PERSONS’ TOURS
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16 June |
Half-day tour of Lisbon |
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17 June |
Full day tour of Óbidos, Nazaré, Fátima and Batalha |
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18 June |
Half-day tour of Sintra |
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19 June |
Full day tour of Évora |
The tour bus leaves each day from the Estoril Congress Centre at 09h30.
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