Texas Section Events

Section Lunch Meetings Presentations (click on date for meeting report)

Date

Speaker

Company

Title

2008

September 2008 Luncheon

Han Yu

ABS

IACS Polar Class Requirements

April 2008 Luncheon

Tony Teo

DNV

Managing Risk in Arctic operations

March 2008 SNAME / MTS meeting

Eric Lieb, Luke Savoie, Billy Ballard & Sean Dyer

Ocean Engr. Sen. Class, Texas A&M University

Design of FPSO Facility in 10,000 ft Water Depth in the Gulf of Mexico

Monique Canales, Eric Keith, Lumi Oshin, Jeff Vaaler and John Wahrenberger

Ocean Engr. Sen. Class, Texas A&M University

Design of FPSO Facility in 5,000 ft Water Depth in the Gulf of Mexico

Remko Hinloopen, Will Hauhe, Dillion Schuler, Brad Ulrich, and Donny Wells

Ocean Engr. Sen. Class, Texas A&M University

Design of FPSO Facility in 3,000 ft Water Depth in the Gulf of Mexico

Robert Strickland-Pelley, Ty Crum, Scott Freeman, David Piazza and Anthony Schulle

Ocean Engr. Sen. Class, Texas A&M University

Design of FPSO Facility in 500 ft Water Depth in the Gulf of Mexico

Evan Zimmerman

Delmar

Risk based Mooring Design

Bill Kinney

Flour

Comparison of LNG Transfer solutions between ship and tank

Malcolm Sharples

Offshore Risk & Technology Consulting Inc.

The Safety Case

Robert E Randall

Ocean Engineering Division, Texas A&M University

Texas A&M Ocean Engineering – 35 Years

Patrick Lynett

Ocean Engineering Division, Texas A&M University

Lynett Coastal_Overview

Jeffrey Falzarano

Ocean Engineering Division, Texas A&M University

Falzarano ocean 407 sname intro

March 2008 Luncheon

Robert Kramek

Challenges in the Marine Industry for Naval Architects and Marine Engineers

February 2008

Arjan Vooght

Marin USA

Offloading operations

January 2008

James Lee and Jan Wolter Oosterhuis

ODL and Dockwise

The Floatover installation market: What's present and what's next?

2007

June 2007

Pedram Fanailoo

DNV Energy

The Need to Factor Asset Risk into LNG

April 2007

Brad S. Hubbard

Mustang Engineering

An Environmentally Responsible Solution using LNG Smart® Air Vaporization (SAV)

March 2008 SNAME / MTS meeting

John Chianis

Houston Offshore Engineering

Semisubmersible Design Flexibility and Project Execution

March 2007

Joe Rousseau

American Bureau of Shipping

Regulatory Issues for Drilling in Severe Environments: Canada's East Coast and Northern Frontier

February 2007

D. Braxton Scherz

D. Braxton Associates

A Potential Use and Design Considerations for High Ice Classed LNG Carriers

January 2007

Dr. Allen Magnuson, P.E.

J.F. Moore International

A Reanalysis of Barge Roll Motion Data

2006

December 2006

Mr. Jan Wolter Oosterhuis

Dockwise USA, Inc.

Engineering Aspects of Heavy Transport Shipping - Achieving the Inconceivable

November 2006

Mr. Phill Pittman

FARO Technologies, Inc.

Phase Shift Laser Scanning for the Marine and Offshore Industry

October 2006

Mr. Frank Pedersen

Seaworthy Systems, Inc.

Modern Diesel Engine Combustion Analysis

September 2006

Annual Shrimp Boil

August 2006

Dr. Johan Wichers

Marin USA

Full Scale Monitoring of the Marco Polo TLP

June 2006

Alexandre Eykerman and John F. Hatley

Wartslia

Marine Emission Fundamentals: Formation, Reduction & Control

Apr/11/2006

Tim Colton

Maritime Business Strategies

Shipbuilding in Texas during WWII

Mar/14/2006

Michael Hanrahan

Center for Marine CNG

Marine CNG

Feb/14/2006

Per-Christian Fett

Fearnley Consultants

The Shipbuilding Market

Jan/10/2006

Frank J. Gonynor

Eastham, Watson, Dale & Forney, LLP

The Legal Vortex : Why is the USA an Epicenter of International Legal Disputes?

2005

Dec/13/2005

G. Abdel Ghoneim

DNV

Gulf of Mexico Offshore Design Criteria - An Independent Overview

Nov. 8, 2005

Magne Nygard

Aker Kvaerner Deepwater Business Unit, Houston

Aker Kvaerner Deep Draft Semi - tailored for GoM applications

Sept. 13,2005

Darrel K. Pelley

Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling

Riser Management in Severe Environments

August '05

Martin Mannion

HPA/Halcrow

LNG/Enegy Terminal Design and Optimatization

June '05

Evan Zimmerman / Daniel Spikula

Delmar / GEMS

A New Direction for Subsea Anchoring and Foundations

2004

November '04

Offshore Symposium

Conference

LNG : From Source to Market

January '04

Jack Pollack

SBM-IMODCO

Dynamics of a Coupled FPSO-GAP-TLP System

June '04

Jeff Butt

Thorndon Bearings

Oil-free stern-tube bearings

2003

December '03

Scott Chaney

Kiewit Offshore Services

Kiewit Offshore Services Yard Development and Operation

November '03

Scott C. McClure / Chuck White

Alan C. McClure & Associates / Enersea Transport, LLC

Designing Ships for an Innovative Gas Transport Industry

October '03

Albert Ku

ABS Consulting Inc.

Use of Reliability Techniques in Analysis of Offshore Structures and Inspection Planning

August '03

Pieter Wybro / Mike Mahoney

Sea Engineering Inc. / Alliance Engineering Inc.

Enabling Technologies of Ultra-deep TLPs