Thursday 22 October 2015

Hotel Jen Singapore (formerly knows as Traders Hotel)
Level 2, 1A Cuscaden Road, Singapore (public car park next to hotel – Tanglin Mall)

SUT Members: S$30
Non-Members: S$50
Payable cash on the door

This event is open to both SUT members and non-members, so don’t miss out on this great opportunity to join like-minded friends and colleagues in an informal atmosphere. Enjoy good networking whilst learning a little about some of the latest technology in your area.

Registration/drinks from 6pm – Presentations at 6.30pm – Networking 7.30pm Drinks & canapés will be served, 9pm evening end

Session chair: Derek Donaldson, Vice President Global Operations, Seatronics
Subsea Measurement and Monitoring using Laser and Photogrammetry
Patrick Raymond, DimEye

Development of Subsea Technologies to deliver Operational Efficiency
Richard Bowcutt, Rolls Royce

To conclude the Technical Meeting:
An Overview of the FX Market & Revenue Protection
A short presentation provided by IdealFX

To register, please e-mail your full contact details to Derek Donaldson on [email protected] or click here for the flyer.

Booking is essential to secure your place. Please note places are limited, so early registration is advised.

This free careers event will enable KS4 and post-16 students to explore a wide range of ‘extreme’ and varied underwater careers opportunities in Britain.

Programme 10.30 – 15.30
The timetable will comprise of presentations by industry experts from a range of underwater science and technology backgrounds.

Subjects include:
• The marine environment
• Renewable energy from our seas
• Animals of the sea
• Deepwater oil and gas production
• How we can recycle old oil production
platforms?
• Can even lawyers find work in marine science?

Further details and booking information can be found on the flyer.

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The YES! (Young Engineers & Scientists) Committee invite the SUT community to the FMC Technologies Site Visit. You will see the subsea equipment services workshop in action and subsea hardware to be used and installed subsea on Woodside Energy Ltd and Chevron Australia projects.

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Post Event Report

For further information please contact Jennifer Maninin.

Prior to the Annual Dinner we will hold our AGM in the Freshwater Bay Room at the Hyatt Regency.

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Come and join us at our Annual Dinner which will be held in the Grand Ballroom at the Hyatt Regency, Adelaide Terrace, Perth. This is the perfect opportunity to invite your clients and staff to fill a table (or two).

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A wonderful evening was had by all, to view photos from the evening click here.

For further information please contact Jennifer Maninin.

SUT Golf Day will be better than ever in 2016!

Better prizes, live leader board, additional comps, novelty holes, introducing the SUT Silver Ticket….. It’s going to be a good one!!!

Please click here for booking form.

See the Sponsorship Packages available for our big day.

For further information please contact Jennifer Maninin.

The London and South of England Branch AGM will take place on 25 November at The Walrus and The Carpenter, 45 Monument Street, London EC3R 8BU.

Start time is 1630 with drinks and small eats afterwards at 1700.

12.00 – Guests arrive

12.30 – Presentations starts

13.15 – Presentations conclude

13.15 – Lunch

Speakers: David Stoddard-Scott, Sustainable Marine Power and Peter Child, Waves4Power

David Stoddard-Scott

David is an entrepreneurial Marine Scientist and qualified PRINCE2 project manager, with a background in Marine Biology. He has been privileged to have experience in a wide variety of start ups and projects from bioenergy to offshore wind, and has latterly concentrated on the Wave & Tidal sector working with Seatricity Ltd to commercialise the Oceanus wave energy technology. A 75kW demonstrator device was installed 10km off St Ives at Cornwall’s Wave Hub in 2014.

He is currently working for Sustainable Marine Energy, on the deployment of their 100kW tidal energy platform PLAT-O at the European Marine Energy Centre later this year. SME has recently announced its plans to install 1MW of tidal power at EMEC in the coming years, backed by SCHOTTEL who will provide 16 tidal turbines for the project.

David has the distinction of being one of very few people to have worked on projects at both Wave Hub and EMEC, global leading marine energy test centres located in the UK.

Peter Child

Peter Child Associates Ltd is a consultancy based near Truro specialising in the Marine, Renewable and Management Sectors. Peter Child is the MD, a Chartered Management Accountant who spent the last 20 years in the marine sector and was MD of A&P Falmouth (Falmouth Docks) 2003 to 2015. Peter has a wide and experienced business network throughout Cornwall and the UK maritime sector. Peter is also Vice Chair of The Cornwall College Group and on the boards of The Cornwall LEP Employment and Skills Board, Cornwall Marine Network Ltd and Marine Offshore Renewables Ltd.

Peter Child Associates Ltd is the UK representative for Waves4Power, a leading Swedish Renewable company who develop, build and sell Wave Energy Parks. The heart of the system is the WaveEL buoy – a point absorber – where the energy of the waves are converted into electric power. A wave power park consists of a large number of WaveEL buoys linked together in an optimal power generation pattern. The first WaveEL buoy was successfully deployed at Runde Norway in February 2016 and will be gird connected and producing by  March 2016 putting W4P in the vanguard of WEC device developers.

12.00 – Guests arrive

12.30 – Presentations starts

13.15 – Presentations conclude

13.15 – Lunch

 

The Salvage of the Costa Concordia

Presenter: Captain John Noble

An SUT view of the Salvage and the technical issues and how they got round them.

John Noble

John Noble has worked in commercial shipping since 1962 when he joined HMS Conway, the famous pre-sea training school in the UK.  John served as a deck officer in the British Merchant Marine sailing with some traditional shipping lines including Blue Funnel and Palm Line.

After obtaining his Master Mariners certificate, John graduated with a Nautical Studies BSc (Honors) from Southampton University in 1977.  After a spell as a claims executive with Thomas Miller (The UK P & I Club), John set up the London office of Murray Fenton & Associates Limited in 1980.  Following the acquisition of Murray Fenton by BMT, in 1999, John served as Chief Executive Officer of the Salvage Association until 2005.  John’s practical expertise lies in dealing with Salvage, Wreck Removal and Oil Pollution having attended some 60 major casualties, including the HAVEN, BRAER, SEA EMPRESS, IRVING WHALE, HYUNDAI SPIRIT and ERICA . John is an experienced expert witness recently offering expertise in, cargo issues, unsafe port cases and salvage.

Over the past 34 years, John has worked with all of the major salvage companies and did serve briefly as an SCR before taking up the Salvage Association post.

Until recently John was an advisor to the International Salvage Union acting as the General Manager.  In the UAE John currently acts as advisor/mentor to Constellation Marine Services.

In his role as salvage expert John has been involved in the post incident activities that follow a casualty, including giving evidence in court, examining the effectiveness of response.  John has worked for and with government departments or agencies in the UK, Ireland, Spain, Canada and the EU Strike Team.  John is the Technical Editor of the Nautical Institute publication “Casualty Management Guidelines”.

Speakers: Alex Mitchell

The oilfield services sector has endured a tough year in 2015 and with present oil price levels the expectations in the industry are for a weaker trading environment in 2016. Energy research and consulting group Douglas-Westwood continue their renowned “Global Offshore Prospects” series of presentations focusing on oilfield services sector spend, and highlighting key sectors, considering the outlook and timing for recovery or further contraction.

Alex Mitchell will present the firm’s outlook for the next five years and consider both the near-term macroeconomic outlook and specific sector drivers for a variety of offshore energy business services and equipment lines. Analysis will be drawn from the firm’s published research and extensive proprietary in-house data, in addition to the insight and experience gained from the many consulting and transactions engagements completed throughout the past  12 months. Specific sector focus will include offshore Capex & operations, offshore drilling, subsea production and associated services and technology.

Timings: 1200 for 1230 presentation followed by a light lunch
Cost: free of charge

How oil and gas professionals approach the stages of a project lifecycle, specifically the implications of early stage decisions on the project outcome.

Speakers:

Farnaz Ghasemi, Project Engineer – Field Developments, ADIL
Farnaz is a project engineer with more than 7 years’ experience, involved in projects based in various locations including UK, Azerbaijan and Trinidad. She is currently working as a Project Engineer – Field Developments at ADIL, taking oil and gas fields from discovery to production.

Nico Nicodemou, Senior Project Engineer, ADIL
Nico is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with seven years’ experience in the Oil and Gas industry, with particular focus on high CAPEX oil and gas development projects. His experience covers all project stages from Appraise to Execute, with particular focus in the areas of Project Engineering, Cost and Schedule development, Project Design Rationale and Risk Analysis.

Timings: 1200 for 1230 presentation followed by a light lunch
Cost: free of charge