28 January, 1700hrs CST (Houston, TX, US)
Online Engineering Competition Informational webinar to learn about the specifics and guidelines of the competition. This webinar will also provide an overview of the SUT-US Mentoring Program and how you can register as a mentee or mentor.
Undergraduate and graduate students and young professionals are encouraged to attend this webinar.
The agenda for the webinar is as follows:
- Welcome by Tricia Hill, SUT-US Chair
- Student chapters by John Allen, Chair of SUT-US Education Committee
- Young Professionals by Patricia Varela, Chair of SUT-US Young Professionals Group
- Online Competition Information by Tricia Hill, SUT-US Chair
- Mentoring Program Information by Roneet Das, Vice-Chair of SUT-US Young Professionals Group
- Online Competition Information by Tricia Hill, SUT-US Chair
Click here to learn more about the SUT-US Online Engineering Competition.
Click here for more information and to register.
In this interview, SUT Council Member Andrew Connelly speaks to Dr. Ed Steele from the UK Met Office in Exeter about the range of ocean and weather data products that the Met Office can to provide to offshore industry users including ship operators, offshore hydrocarbons platforms, helicopter ops, and marine renewables.
The episode will be uploaded to https://sut.buzzsprout.com/
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Our second interview from HR Wallingford, Richard is a long-serving SUT member and is active in our Environmental Forces Special Interest Group. His specialist area is understanding sediment dynamics around seabed structures such as wind farm monopiles. In this interview he talks to our former CEO Steve Hall about how HR Wallingford constructs physical scale models of these sort of structures, to test using specialist flume tanks.
The episode will be uploaded to www.buzzsprout.com/1000288
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Click here to listen to part 1 of the HR Wallingford Interviews with David Todd, Laboratory Manager.
In this episode, SUT council member Andrew Connelly speaks with Anna Lambert – Head of Programme Delivery at SubSea Craft based in Portsmouth UK. Anna talks about the background of SubSea Craft and their current ‘VICTA’ development of a surface and submersible diver delivery craft, what has been involved in the development cycle of such a project, and how students and younger people can be motivated to get involved in engineering.
The episode will be uploaded to https://sut.buzzsprout.com/
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In this episode, SUT council member Andrew Connelly speaks with Marco Gilissen – Global UXO Marine Risk Mitigation Director and Offshore Wind Site Appraisal and Design Array Solution Owner at Fugro. Marco talks about UXO risk mitigation and the processes involved to deal with UXO issues that are experienced by different markets around the globe.
The episode will be uploaded to https://sut.buzzsprout.com/
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Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment and Decommissioning (OPRED) – What is decommissioning?
It’s not just End of field life, it’s lifespan from Field Development Programme to Decommissioning Programme, to future use.
Wednesday 16th June 2021 – 1330-1430hrs BST
This is the fourth & final Presentation in a Virtual Series of Events, Life Cycle of a North Sea Decommissioning Project Audrey Banner – Head of Decommissioning Programme and Policy
- Background to OPRED and BEIS
- UK and international legislation and how we translate these into the UK decommissioning guidance notes
- OSPAR, decision 98/3, derogations and considerations
- Technology development and Technology advancement joint industry project
- OPRED as regulators, working with Operators, industry, contractors and interaction with Stakeholders (HSE, HMT, HMRC, OGA and SEPA)
- What is decommissioning – its not just end of field life – Lifecycle of interaction with OPRED, Field Development Programme to Decommissioning Programme
- Decommissioning programmes large and small – example of an OSPAR decom programme and a small subsea decommissioning programme
- Comparative assessments
- Pipeline decommissioning and Pipeline bundles
- CCUS, reuse, and repurposing
- Liability in perpetuity and monitoring of pipelines left in situ
- Financial Governance, decommissioning security agreements, security and asset and company sales.
- Levels of decommissioning going forward
Webinar – 1330 -1430 BST
Allseas Engineering – Making Single Lift Possible
Presenter: Michael Jeffrey – Lead Heavy Lift Engineer Ninian Northern Platform topsides removal
Click here to watch a short taster video clip from our speaker
Allseas is known for her flagship vessel the Pioneering Spirit and her single lift technology, the Topsides Lift System (TLS).
This talk will present CNRI’s Ninian Northern Platform topsides removal project as a case study concentrating on the work that goes on in the background that makes single lift possible.
The main focus areas will be:
- The challenges dealing with aging offshore assets
- Completing preparations amid competing plug & abandonment activities
- Creative solutions for separating and lifting separating topsides from their jackets
- Executing a single lift
- Transferring an asset onshore with a transport barge and heavy lift skidding system
Please click here to read the transcript of the Q&A from this event.
Wednesday 10th March 2021 1330-1430hrs GMT
This is the second presentation in a virtual series of events
Life Cycle of a North Sea Decommissioning Project
Boskalis Subsea – Optimised Decommissioning Delivery Subsea (ODDS)
Richard Cawthorne – Project Director, Boskalis Subsea
The talk will present Boskalis’s experience as a subsea contractor across completed and ongoing decommissioning projects.
Within subsea sector, this remit covers all subsea infrastructure, including: pipelines, risers, subsea structures, concrete mattresses, debris, associated seabed remediation.
The primary content of the presentation will be on the “lifecycle model” of Boskalis’s ongoing project with the Chrysaor, their legacy ConocoPhilips Subsea Decommissioning, while focusing on:
- Lessons learned
- Efficiencies
- Best practices
- Different lifecycle models of subsea decommissioning
Contact [email protected]
Further presentations on the Life Cycle of a North Sea Decommissioning Project are planned, more details to follow.
The board explored multiple options, including a virtual event, but ultimately decided that the best path forward was to focus on a high quality, in-person event in April 2021. It is our pleasure to announce that MCEDD 2021 will be held at the London Novotel West on April 20-22, 2021.
MCEDD 2021 will launch the Call for Abstracts in the coming months and content originally scheduled for this year will automatically be considered for the 2021 agenda. Please note that our distinguished Directed Content presenters will be invited to participate in our 2021 event.
Delegates with an existing registration can transfer their reservation to the 2021 event. Please contact us if you have any questions about the new dates.
Thank you for your understanding. We look forward to seeing you there!
Kind regards,
GulfQuest Board of Directors
For more information please visit: https://mcedd.com/
In this interview, our former CEO Steve Hall speaks to Professor William Megill, Matt Silver-Vallance, Dr Björn Backeberg & Nick Cunningham-Moorat about their proposed international hybrid electric/human-powered submarine racing series. It brings together science, diving, engineering, and endurance sports for an exciting future race that would take place in stages at spectacular coastal locations around the world.
http://subracingseries.com/
The episode will be uploaded to www.buzzsprout.com/1000288
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