Past 2013 Luncheons

November Luncheon - "Offshore safety philosophy and design principles"

Topic:
Application of Offshore Oil and Gas Standard Practices to Floating Offshore Wind Platforms

Philip Poll, Houston Offshore Engineering


Tuesday, November 12th, 2013

11:30 AM  - 1:30 PM

Westchase Marriott Hotel
2900 Briarpark Dr.
Houston, TX 77042
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Abstract:
Houston Offshore Engineering provided engineering support for a 2 MW floating offshore wind platform that was installed offshore Portugal in 2011. We are currently working on the design of a 6 MW floating offshore wind platform for installation offshore Oregon. Between these two projects, ABS released guidelines for building and classing floating offshore wind turbine installations. This presentation will provide an overview of the 2MW wind platform and the 6 MW wind platform as background information for a general discussion on the application of offshore oil and gas design standards and design practices for the offshore wind industry. Key differences will be highlighted such as unmanned operations, design load conditions, structural safety factors and marine systems. A key challenge for floating offshore wind platforms, and for renewable energy in general, is economic efficiency to reduce the overall unit cost of the produced power. The purpose of the presentation is to encourage safe optimization of floating offshore wind platforms within the framework of industry standards and class requirements.

Biography:
Philip Poll is Manager of Projects for Houston Offshore Engineering and is currently managing the detailed design effort for the Williams GS1 Tubular Bells Spar platform. Philip has a B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University and a M.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Philip started working in the oil and gas industry in 1994 and has almost 20 years of experience designing floating systems for installations worldwide. Philip was project manager for the FEED and detailed design of the 2 MW floating offshore wind platform that was installed offshore Portugal and is supporting the engineering effort for the 6MW offshore wind platform for Oregon.


October Luncheon - "Offshore safety philosophy and design principles"

Chang Hee Yoo,  Kathrine Ilje Nerland


Tuesday, October 8th, 2013

11:30 AM  - 1:30 PM

Westchase Marriott Hotel
2900 Briarpark Dr.
Houston, TX 77042
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ABSTRACT:

The offshore oil & gas industry has achieved an outstanding improvement in occupational safety over the past three decades. Although it has learned much from major accidents in the past, such accidents are still occurring, while the industry is facing increasingly complex and demanding environments.

The presentation will give an overview of offshore fire hazards and important barriers to prevent and suppress incidents. The presentation will focus on design principles from a class perspective, including accidental loads, arrangement, hazardous area classification, ESD Principles, escape and communication.

 

 

PRESENTER BIO:

Chang Hee Yoon

Chang-Hee has been with DNV since 1997.  Chang Hee is a principal engineer specialized in Marine, Process and Safety System and statutory requirements. Chang Hee started a summer job at Koje Island in South Korea back in 1996 and was fascinated by the way the vessel was constructed and Classification engagement. After that, he joined DNV Korea in 1997 as a trainee. He started his career as an approval engineer for stability, Loadline and tonnage in DNV ACEA (Approval Center for East Asia) for maritime vessels (from barge to LNG carriers). He enjoyed the experience and involvement with a basic design of ships reflecting all regulatory requirements. In 2004, Chang Hee was transferred to the marine piping and safety system in ACEA. It was a completely different experience from before, but lots of challenge with painful joy. After all, he considers it as a great step forward in his career which enables him to cover many different disciplines (i.e. piping and safety system design etc). In 2009, he was transferred to DNV Singapore offshore center and work there for 4 years.  

Apart from work, Chang Hee is married with two daughters and just settled down in Houston and  bought a house!  At the moment he has a lot  to do at home and enjoys doing home improvement and fixing-up.  Chang Hee is also an enthusiastic golfer whose handicap used to be 10.5 but now 18 after a long break. 


 

Kathrine Ilje Nerland

Kathrine Ilje Nerland (M.Sc.) has 15 years’ experience from design verification and class approval of safety systems for ships and offshore units/installations, statutory compliance and project management.

Experience includes unit arrangement, escape routes and lifesaving equipment, structural fire protection, fire and blast divisions, fire and gas detection systems, active fire protection systems, area classification and ventilation, risk analysis, statutory requirements, Flag and Shelf state requirements, project management. 

Kathrine joined DNV as a fire safety engineer in 2003, after 5 years of international engineering and research. Her experience with the Maritime and Offshore industry is gained through work in Norway, The Netherlands, South Korea and USA.  


 

SNAME September Luncheon - “FLNG and Offshore Gas Monetization – Technologies and Solutions”

Joseph Gebara
General Manager – Offshore                                                          
OG&C 
                                                                                                
 
 
Tuesday, September 10th, 2013
11:30 AM  - 1:30 PM


Westchase Marriott Hotel
2900 Briarpark Dr.
Houston, TX 77042
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Abstract:

Monetization of Gas has been a growing market over the last decade and many technologies have been explored, including CNG and GTL. LNG seems to be the most economical and most used technology for large gas monetization projects, given distance to market and size of fields being explored. The question always remains, what are the boundaries and how far can LNG technology be used in the offshore arena. This talk would discuss, some of the key drivers for offshore gas monetization, as well as some of the technologies and solutions being explored


Presenter Bio:

I was born and raised in Lebanon in Cornet Chehwan which is a small town that overlooks the Mediterranean Sea.  During my high school years and college while earning my bachelors’ degree, I spent most of my free time as a Boy’s Scout leader and a Lebanese Red Cross volunteer.


After graduating from the American University of Beirut, I worked in Lebanon as a civil design engineer and construction manager for three years, the projects included  a beach resort, an office building, and a factory.

In 1983, I met my wife, Danielle while volunteering working at Red Cross. In 1990 we married and moved to the US to Pittsburgh, PA where I earned my Master’s Degree from Carnegie Mellon.  Later, we moved to West Lafayette, IN where I completed my PhD in civil engineering, and Danielle earned her Master’s degree.

I joined Bechtel July 2, 2012 with more than 18 years of experience in the offshore industry.  Prior to joining Bechtel, I served in numerous roles at Technip and Amoco, most recently, as vice president of floater operations and director of floater projects at Technip USA, managing the division responsible for most of the company’s large-scale spar hull and mooring delivery.

I actively  serve on several committees including, the Ocean Energy Safety Advisory Committee, a national advisory committee to the US Secretary of Interior formed following the Deepwater Horizon incident; the University of Texas, Petroleum Engineering Department, External Advisory Committee and  the American Petroleum Institute Subcommittee for Fixed and Floating Structure.

Previously, I have worked with the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, as well as the United Kingdom Health and Safety Executive in numerous areas including the development of new technology for the decommissioning of platforms in the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea; regulation on the fitness for purpose assessment of offshore platforms; and on the comparative risks of operating FPSOs, TLPs and Platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.

Danielle and I have two children, Michael, a 16 year old junior in High School, and Christine our 19 year old freshman at Georgia Tech.


 

August Luncheon - "New Technology on Life Cycle Management for Marine Industry – Adaptive Modeling"

William Boze
Tuesday, August 13th, 2013
11:30 AM  - 1:30 PM

Westchase Marriott Hotel
2900 Briarpark Dr.
Houston, TX 77042
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SUMMARY:

The Adaptive Modeling Group, a business relationship between TechnoSoft, Inc and Newport News Energy, a subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding, have leveraged and adapted a unique model-centric engineering capability for the marine industry which enables managing data within a unified modeling environment to automate the generation of products for various disciplines at different asset life cycle stages. The capability is based on an engineering environment that uses an advanced object-oriented modeling framework and underlying software language to enable automated rules-based generation of products from a central 3D product model. The technology and software developed by TechnoSoft fundamentally changes the present CAD/CAM/CAE approach to integrated design and analysis processes.  

In this generative modeling environment, knowledge of the engineer's tools and the intricacies associated with executing them is captured within a modeling language.  This empowers the engineer to initially search a broader set of product design configurations, rather than being limited to simple parameter changes common during the concept design or front-end engineering design stages.  Integrating both the design and analysis process within one environment facilitates design exploration and provides increased detail and guidance across disciplines to assess viability, technical merit and risk during the various stages of the asset’s acquisition or modernization period. 

 

 

PRESENTER BIO:

William Boze, 
Manager of the Newport News Energy Adaptive Modeling Group specializing in Knowledge Based Engineering products and services, has over thirty years of ship design and shipbuilding experience with Newport News Shipbuilding encompassing concept design development, arrangements, naval architecture analyses, weight estimating and control, engineering structural analysis, structural closure design, hull outfitting, environmental safety & health, construction engineering support, plus engineering/design software application development and integration


Adel Chemaly
President and Founder of TechnoSoft Inc., Cincinnati, OH, June 1992 has over twenty five years of experience in engineering software application development, including geometric modeling and reasoning, constraint based 3D routing, and automation of schematics, work packages, and fabrication process planning.  He has managed the technology development for more than twenty TechnoSoft products, and the development of the business plan for their deployment on commercial as well as US Department of Defense applications


March Luncheon - Model Tests for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines

Mr. Arjan Voogt
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
11:30 AM  - 1:30 PM

Westchase Marriott Hotel
2900 Briarpark Dr.
Houston, TX 77042
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Abstract

With the growth in renewable energy, there is an increasing focus on offshore wind. Currently mostly fixed offshore structures are installed in shallow water, but the technology is improving and the turbines are expected to move to deeper water with stronger more frequent wind. The challenges of floating offshore wind turbines are very similar to those of the offshore industry. It requires safe and economic design, production, installation, maintenance, repair and removal.

In 2011, MARIN tested three different floating wind turbine concepts for the University of Maine-led DeepCwind project. The floaters include a spar buoy, a tension leg platform and a semi-submersible. The model tests were conducted to calibrate and validate simulation codes for floating wind turbines. Therefore, great attention was paid to the coupling between aerodynamic and hydrodynamic behaviour. We will discuss the chosen test and simulation approach, lessons learned and recent developments for testing of offshore wind turbines. 




Short bio:

Arjan Voogt holds a MSc. degree in applied physics from Delft University of Technology and graduated in fluid dynamics. He joined MARIN in 1998 to work as project manager on offshore model tests. Arjan is currently working as manager of MARINs satellite office in Houston. From this office MARIN provides local client support, third party verifications work and design optimization studies using in-house developed software.

January Luncheon - Development of the HiLoad Technology - A Long and Interesting Journey

Mr. Svein B. Hellesmark
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
11:30 AM  - 1:30 PM

Westchase Marriott Hotel
2900 Briarpark Dr.
Houston, TX 77042
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Abstract

The HiLoad Technology for Offshore Loading and Mooring has been developed by Remora over the last 12 years. Remora is currently in the final process of entering into a 10-year contract with Petrobras in Brazil for the first HiLoad DP vessel where the operation in Brazil is scheduled to start in Q3 2013.  

Remora’s co-founder, Mr. Svein B. Hellesmark will in his presentation describe the entire step-by-step technology development process carried out by Remora from the initial “napkin idea” until a fully commercial vessel. The HiLoad DP is today a recognized offloading solution by a number of Oil Companies.

The motivation for developing the HiLoad Technology was to obtain a solution to enable safe offloading of crude oil directly from Spread Moored FPSO’s onto Conventional Tankers. With such a solution, the crude oil can be exported directly from the FPSO’s without any need for transshipment of the crude oil or use of remote deepwater CALM buoys connected to the FPSO.

The main need for such a solution is in Brazil and West Africa, but the trend is moving more and more towards an international crude oil trade and the need for such FPSO export solutions may be required at multiple areas of the World in the next coming decades.

The main focus of the presentation will be to describe the development of the FPSO Offloading System – the HiLoad DP. 70.000 engineering hours has been spent by Remora and in total 7 different Model Test has been carried out in the period from 2001-2010 to validate the function of the system and to obtain the most reliable hydrodynamic data for the vessel. Furthermore, a number of advanced computer simulations have been carried out during the 12-year development. Mr. Hellesmark will walk you through each of the main steps in this process during his presentation.

Biography

Mr. Svein B. Hellesmark
Remora

Mr. Svein B. Hellesmark is the co-founder of Remora and is today Technology Manager of the company as well as heading Remora’s office in Houston. Svein has 20 years experience in the oil and gas industry where he the last 16 years has mainly been focusing on FPSO Offshore Loading and Mooring Systems.

 

Svein has managed the development of the HiLoad Technology from the first initial idea in year 2000 until a fully commercial HiLoad vessel in 2012. This includes a number of Model Test and simulation projects carried out in cooperation with various Oil Companies. He has also been granted a number of International Patents related to the HiLoad Technology.

 

Svein is an active member of SPE’s OTC Committee with responsibility for organizing Technical Sessions at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, where he has been serving as Chairman for several sessions since 2010.

 

Mr. Hellesmark has been leading Remora’s activities in Brazil over the last 5 years where Remora now is in the final process of entering into a 10-year contract with Petrobras for HiLoad DP.

 

Svein graduated from the University in Agder in Norway with a BSc in Civil Engineering in 1992 and a BSc in Naval Architecture the year after. He also received his CAND.MAG. degree in 1993.