Submitted by Lars Ronning on 9/10/2009 6:00:20 AM Last updated by Lars Ronning on 9/10/2009 6:00:20 AM
On the 23rd of April SNAME members in Stavanger, Norway, arranged a meeting at the StatoilHydro headquarters. In total 24 persons attended; 6 members and 18 potential members. Most participants were local, but Kimmo Juurmaa joined us all the way from Finland. We had three technical presentations. Professor Ove T. Gudmestad of the University of Stavanger gave a presentation on the subject risk assessments in marine operations. His presentation on Qualitative Risk Analysis of the Transportation and Lift-in of a Module onto a floating production (TLP) platform gave a very good and systematic overview of methods of risk analysis related to offshore marine operations. The second presenter, Tom Karlsen of Mokster Shipping, presented one of their latest additions to their fleet; "The worlds most advanced multifield Standby Rescue Vessel" - the Stril Herkules operating for StatoilHydro. The vessel, designed and built in this region, has quite a few novel features including a built in slip way in the stern that can recover a daughter craft in up to 10 m Hs seas, built in oil spill response equipment and low emissions engine/propulsion set up. Meindert Jan van der Velde of StatoilHydro contributed with a presentation of maritime challenges related to installation and maintenance of offshore wind farms. He also presented StatoilHydros two offshore wind mill projects, the Hywind floating full scale prototype currently being installed off the coast North West of Stavanger, and the Sheringham Shoal seabed fixed wild farm project in the UK in 20 m of water.
The meeting was rounded off with a general discussion about SNAME and a plan to implement more SNAME activities in the region. Next meeting in Stavanger will be held on the 3rd of September, hosted by Acergy. Several of the non members showed an interest of becoming members, so there is definitely a potential to increase the number of members in the Stavanger area.