Presented by MAATS/Nexans.

Design and installation of Nexans 10,000 ton carousel making Aurora, the world’s largest cable lay vessel destined for work in the Middle East.

For further information and to book please contact [email protected]

The Society for Underwater Technology in the U.S. (SUT-US) is hosting a global virtual online engineering competition for students (undergraduate and graduate) and early-career professionals (0-3 years of experience).

Participants can choose one or more problems to solve within the following topics:

• Underwater Thermal Garments
• Remote Subsea Power System
• Submarine Underwater Rescue in Shallow Water
• Carbon Capture
• Renewable Energy

Applications will be reviewed and confirmed on or before February 22nd, 2021. All successful registrants will receive the problem statement on February 22nd, 2021, the organizing committee will send the participants the problem statement(s), including questions to be addressed.

Registration

Participants can register as individuals or as a team, of up to 4 members by using the form here or by following this link: https://forms.gle/puyfcFPVviV85RY97.

There is no limit on number of entries per person or team. For both, individual and team registration, the cost per participant per category is $100.00 for early-career professionals and $50.00 for students.

The deliverables include a MS PowerPoint presentation of up to 20 slides to be submitted by March 19th, 2021 by 5 PM CST. No report is required.

The judges will review each entry against the following criteria:

• Originality, Creativity & Intent
• Technical Aspects
• Implementation Feasibility
• Potential Impact and Growth

Finalist will be notified via email and assigned a 15 minutes time slot to give a final presentation to the judges between April 5th, 2021- April 8th, 2021. Winners will be notified via email with an invitation to the virtual award ceremony, which will take place on April 9th, 2021.

Prizes

• Cash prizes.
• First place winners per category get free registrations to a SUT course/workshop with a cash value of up to $2400.00.
• All winners get a 1-year SUT membership.

If a team entry has won the topic, the cash award will be distributed evenly to each team member.

For more information and to register please click here.

Important Deadlines

• January 11, 2021 – Applications begin
• February 8, 2021 – Registration ends
• February 22, 2021 – Competition begins
• March 19, 2021 – Competition submissions due
• March 29, 2021 – Judging begins
• April 5-8, 2021- Finalists presentations
• April 9, 2021 – Awards

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.

 

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

To find out how you can be featured on a future podcast or for information on how to sponsor an upcoming podcast contact [email protected]

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 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/

To find out how you can be featured on a future podcast or for information on how to sponsor an upcoming podcast contact [email protected]

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.