The subsea industry has advanced at a significant rate since inception in the 1960s. How do we manage diversity across vendors, operators and applications? How do we cope with the historic approach of customised supply for each project, and how can we make operations easier for the subsea industry of the future, currently going through a rejuvenation? “Optimisation and Maximising Efficiency” seeks to discuss latest initiatives providing standardisation and optimisation to the subsea industry, improving efficiency and maximising economic recovery.

Shreekant Mehta, OTM
JIPs are about collaborating to push the boundaries of technology, and an excellent way to optimise and realise efficiency savings. A subset of JIPs run by OTM focus on standardising technology – still through collaboration, but with a different end goal.
With 25 years experience of starting and running JIPs, OTM will present the remit of some of the standardisation JIPs that we have undertaken and completed, and some that are currently running.
We will bring these to life by discussing practices implemented to drive joint industry efforts to success – driving optimisation and efficiency.

Anthony Clarke, BEL Valves
Engineered Products
An illustration of the savings and efficiencies achievable through the standardisation of specifications, design, project processing and project management.

Alistair Birnie, Ashtead Technology
Deploying Innovation in a Standardised World
Standardisation can inhibit and at times block evolving technologies and innovation that could lead to cost reduction and higher quality data. However there are ways to mitigate this through management of interfaces and functionality at the appropriate level that can open up standardised systems to allow innovation to continue, particularly for information based systems. This issue continues to grow in subsea infrastructure, offshore survey & IRM applications where technologies continue to move faster and become more sophisticated.

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Who were Aileen, Caroline, Eleanor and Dylan??

Last year, a strong team from Wood ran away with the honors; this year promises to be more competitive as our usual quiz masters (Bob Inglis and Ray Ebsworth) will be back setting the questions and not chasing the laurels of victory…

All Learned Members of the SUT are invited to attend the London and South East Branch’s 5th Annual Pub Quiz at the Ye Olde Watling, 29 Watling Street, EC4M 9BR.  Planned start time 7pm, probable finish time 10pm with a buffet served between rounds.

Corporate Members are invited to send teams (5 person teams are ideal) with suitably knowing names; individual members can form a winning team on the night. 

There is a limit on 60 attendees due to space restrictions at the venue and as such all teams and persons are encouraged to pre-register to avoid bitter disappointment on the night.

Following the quiz, there will be ample opportunity to toast success or drown sorrows at the bar.

Many thanks to our sponsor ATV 

Ocean X-Prize – Team Tao
Professor Nick Wright and Team Tao
Having successfully passed round 1 the team is focussed on the final challenge – Map 500km2; 4000m deep, fully autonomously, find the target and return all the data to land in 24hrs – $7M prize purse.
“Having seen what the teams are proposing, if this competition is a success, there is no doubt in my mind that we will have made history by collectively changing this world” Dr. Jyotika Virmani
Team Tao, a partnership between SMD and Newcastle University, are the only remaining UK team in the competition and will present their solution and some of the challenges they have faced along the way.

Advancements in Robotics – Sonardyne
Elizabeth Paull
Sonardyne has been working on hybrid navigation systems which tightly integrate all raw sensor data at a low level to provide unprecedented improved accuracy and reliability. A hybrid navigator adapts to make best use of the on-board sensors by fusing inertial technology with acoustics instruments. The result is transforming subsea robot missions. Hybrid navigation enables the systems to dead-reckon for longer and more accurately. Aided by acoustics it achieves navigation precise enough to dynamically draw 3D point clouds using laser scanners mounted on the vehicles.

Post talk refreshments
Networking and a finger buffet is provided to close off the evening event. This event is jointly held between the IEEE and SUT NE Branch. Pre-registration is required so we can cater for the anticipated numbers.

Registration from 6pm Presentations 630pm

Meeting Report

The OSIG Committee is pleased to announce the finalised programme for the launch event for Y-OSIG. We will have an introduction by Mick Cook (SUT Council Member and Treasurer) and Andy Barwise (OSIG Chairman) followed by a stimulating afternoon of presentations from 11 young professionals on a wide range of subjects.

While the judges deliberate, Andy Barwise will lead a discussion on how Y-OSIG could work. All young offshore ‘geo’ professionals are invited to attend and discuss what they would like from Y-OSIG and how they could be involved.

The judges will then present the awards, and we will then adjourn to the Hoop and Toy for refreshments, kindly provided by our sponsors.

1st: £250 2nd: £175 3rd: £100

Author Affiliation Title Marco Beghi DNV GL Challenges in offshore site Investigation; a client representative’s perspective Callum Fry Southampton Uni Identifying conventionally sub-seismic structures using seafloor analogues Scott Griffiths Fugro The challenges of acquiring 2D high resolution seismic data in a shallow water environment Toby Balaam Oxford Uni Cyclic element testing for offshore monopile foundations Leah Arlott Fugro The Bolders Bank Formation; predicting the unpredictable Alessandro Mandolini Horizon Geosciences Theoretical and experimental investigation of the multiaxial soil response around OWT foundations Maarten Heijnen Southampton Uni Erosion at seafloor knickpoints : an important but under-recognised geohazard for seafloor infrastructure Bonita Barrett Leeds Uni Tuning, interference and false shallow gas signatures in geohazards interpretations beyond the λ/4 rule David Vaughan Fugro Post-stack AVO techniques for shallow gas detection in 3DHR marine site surveys Scott Whyte Fugro Characterisation of soils for offshore renewables foundation design: risks and opportunities Scarlett MummeryOffshore BlondieExperience with the Benthic Seabed Drill in Nearshore Conditions

Registrations start at 1330 Presentations start at 1400 drinks and nibbles at the Hoop & Toy from 1800.

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