Thursday 1 December 2022 | 19:30 – 23:30 GMT

Soul, 333 Union Street, Aberdeen AB11 6BS

Please join us for our 2022 Christmas social – an engineering-themed pub crawl. You will be allocated a team on arrival and your team will work together to solve engineering problems/puzzles/anagrams and challenges, all while networking throughout Aberdeen’s finest establishments.

Wednesday 30 November 2022 | 17:00 – 18:00 GMT

Join SUT+ for a site visit to MacArtney UK Ltd’s 3000 m2 custom-built facility in Howe Moss Avenue, Aberdeen.

This event is free to attend; spaces are limited so please register in advance to guarantee a place.

MacArtney Underwater Technology Group is a leading manufacturer of high-quality products, fully integrated systems and innovative custom solutions, from design to installation, supported by training, service and local workshops. They cover the areas of connectivity, launch and recovery, and data acquisition for oil and gas-related companies, ocean science institutes, marine renewable developers, navies and others around the world.

Housed in a modern 3000 m2 custom-built facility in Howe Moss Avenue, Aberdeen, MacArtney UK Limited currently employ 52 people in a variety of sales, workshop, administration, HR and QHSE roles and are the largest MacArtney Group operation outside of Denmark where their Group headquarters is located.

Their products and systems portfolio combines their expertise in subsea connectivity products and solutions, umbilical terminations, fibre optics, winch and handling systems, telemetry, rotary solutions, marine survey and scientific instrumentation and underwater cameras and lights. Moreover, they offer a wide range of design, engineering, construction, testing and project management resources backed by the global MacArtney Group network. All MacArtney products and systems are backed by 24/7 local access to global support.

Whilst visiting the facility, members can see first-hand a range of products and services that MacArtney UK has to offer including underwater connectors, cable moulding, fibre optic connectors and termination, slip ring repair and maintenance along with a variety of products manufactured by other MacArtney sites and distributed across the globe.

Registration & Refreshments 6.00pm | Presentations 6.30pm
Newcastle University, Armstrong Building, Room ARMB1.49, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU

Seabed Geology v/s Offshore WTG interconnecting power cables

Peter Allan, PACE Geotechnics

Peter will need little introduction to many having been in the industry since 1990. Foundation stability and successful burial of subsea cables/pipelines all come down to getting the initial site analysis right – find out direct from Peter how these engineering decisions are made.

Peter’s talk will focus on the protection of WTG interconnecting cables in context of the geotechnical challenges and the tools used to get them effectively into the seabed, illustrated with project examples.

The engineering that bridges between seabed geology & Offshore Wind infrastructure

Dr Indrasenan Thusyanthan, Managing Director of G&D Geosolutions

‘Thushy’ is a recognized expert in the field of offshore geotechnics with a wealth of project experience. Geotechnics play a vital role at all stages of offshore windfarm development. This talk presents the key stages in an offshore windfarm project where geotechnical input is critical, challenges in geotechnical aspects of pile design in rock, effect of pile diameter on axial capacity in rock and recommended design methodology. The talk will be underpinned and illustrated with practical examples.

22^nd November | 13:30 – 14:30 GMT

Ian Ellis – Global Service Manager – Operations

Responsible for managing regional, technical and operational project management, as well as commercial interfaces for Scotland and Northern Europe. From receipt of a scope of work, through to the delivery of results, Ian will ensure our customers achieve their project objectives safely and effectively. Ian’s career started as a survey data processor and has spanned 21 years’ in the offshore Oil and Gas industry. Over this period Ian has held onshore and offshore positions with Subsea 7, UTEC Survey, Nautronix and latterly Proserv where he acted as the Survey Operations Manager.

With expertise in the hydrographic survey, acoustic positioning, inertial navigation and data processing Ian will also support the advancement and commercialisation of new technologies to meet the client’s needs within the region.

Overview
3D at Depth, Inc. is the world’s leading expert in subsea LiDAR laser technology. Our advanced subsea LiDAR laser (SL) systems and subsea survey support services help customers transform the value of underwater 3D data. From data collection and processing, through visualization and analysis, 3D at Depth delivers precise, accurate, repeatable, millimetric 3D point clouds to measure, map and evaluate underwater assets and environments.

Agenda

• Introduction
• Principles of Lidar
• Lidar Applications
• Remote Operations Definitions
• Remote Operations – Technical Barriers
• Remote Operations – Solutions
• Competence Transfer
• System Integration
• Q&A

OSIGp invite you to the 2022 Awarding Ceremony

This is a competition event where students, young academics, and early-careers professionals aged 30 years and under, give a 7-min presentation about their research or contributions in the advancement of knowledge in and practice of the offshore 4Gs – Geophysics, Geology, Geomatics and Geotechnical Engineering.

At the end of the night, the OSIGp Committee will determine the best presentation who will then be awarded the “OSIGp Prize”.

PROGRAMME:

• 5.30pm – 6.00pm: Registration
• 6.00pm – 7.00pm: Presentations
• 7.00pm – 8.00pm: Networking over drinks and finger food

FINALISTS:

1. Alessandra Rosati from Sapienza Università di Roma on “Load-time failure envelopes for suction caissons under sustained vertical loading.”
2. S. Farid Fazel Mojtahedi from University of Melbourne on “Assessment of offshore geo-hazard and failure prediction using AI-ML.”
3. Thien An Nguyen from The University of Western Australia on “Wind turbines foundation: from wind to earthquake.”

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Professor Mark Randolph

He’ll be presenting on “A Lifetime of Offshore Geotechnics – Career Reflections and Lessons Learned”

For further enquiries, please contact OSIGp directly by emailing: Júlia Hein Mazutti [email protected]

To view the flyer, click OSIGp Prize 2022 Flyer

To view the finalists on OSIGp LinkedIn Page, click OSIGp Prize 2022 Finalists

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Wednesday 16th November

Registration open from 17:30, presentations start at 18:00 | Buffet at 19:00

Holiday Inn Express, Westhill, Aberdeen, AB32 6TT

This event is free to attend, but booking is essential.

Graham Dixon, Vattenfall: Hydrogen Turbine 1 (HT1)

Click here to view the presentation

Vattenfall’s HT1 project aims to be the first in the world to test the full integration of hydrogen production with an offshore wind turbine. HT1 will also map out development and consent processes for large-scale hydrogen projects co-located with offshore wind farms to speed up future development.

The pilot project at Vattenfall’s Offshore Wind Farm in Aberdeen Bay will have an output of 8.8MW and will be able to produce enough hydrogen every day to power a hydrogen bus to travel 24,000km. Hydrogen will be produced offshore, on the wind turbine and be exported to shore at Aberdeen South Harbour via a small diameter flowline.

The availability of large quantities of fossil-free hydrogen will play a key role in the decarbonisation of heavy industry (predominantly in steel, chemicals, and fertilizer production as well as refining), as well as heavy transport.

Eric Kiltie, Salamander Floating Wind: A Steppingstone for the Scottish Supply Chain

Wind turbines at sunrise off the North East coast

The Salamander Offshore Floating Wind project is being developed by Simply Blue Energy (Scotland) Ltd in joint venture with Ørsted and Subsea 7. The project ethos is to be a precursor and stepping-stone to ScotWind developments; allowing the Scottish supply chain to gear-up and de-risk in preparation for these commercial-scale opportunities.

Salamander is planned as a 100 MW development comprising six or seven turbines situated on industrialised steel semi-submersible floating foundations. The project location is approximately 35 km east of Peterhead in the North East of Scotland with water depth of around 100 m.

This session will present the current status of the development and discuss some of the challenges ahead.

This event is jointly run with the Aberdeen Association of Civil Engineers

Thank you to our sponsors

How Nauticus is utilizing fully autonomous robotics to execute subsea manipulation but with an added safety layer of control by having a person in the controls loop for supervision. What is the technical readiness of the technology, and what makes this technology commercially viable?

Todd Newell