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- Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering Division
With about 4500 members worldwide in the Ocean, Offshore and Arctic
Engineering (OOAE) Division of ASME, we are obligated to provide our
members with the best technical information, opportunities and services
within the areas of ocean, offshore and arctic engineering. Through
the years, OOAE has focused not only on the yearly OMAE conference
but also on promoting OOAE to young engineers, providing opportunities
to students and working more internationally by co-sponsoring locally
organized symposia.
Largely owing to a unique group of volunteers, especially members of
the OOAE Executive Committee (EC) and Extended Executive Committee
(EEC), it has been possible to be active in achieving the mandate of
the Division: promoting technological progress and international cooperation
in ocean, offshore and Arctic engineering, and in recovering resources,
such that environmental and economic successes are achieved safely.
One of the successes in 2007 was the 26th OMAE Conference, which was
held June 10-15 at the Paradise Point Resort and Marina on Mission
Bay in San Diego. It was a rousing success with 470 papers presented
in 12 symposia, and with 729 total attendees over the five-day event.
We had 13 sponsors and exhibitors which helped make it a financial
success. We held our first Sailing Regatta not only using all of the
Marina’s boats but a few more as well that drew a large group
of participants.
The 27th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic
Engineering will be held June 15-20 2008 in Estoril, Portugal. It will
feature eight traditional symposia and will be complemented by four
special symposia. These are:
• Offshore Technology
• Structures, Safety and Reliability
• Materials Technology
• Pipeline and Riser Technology
• Ocean Space Utilization
• Ocean Engineering
• Polar and Arctic Sciences and Technology
• CFD and VIV
• Nick Newman Symposium on Marine Hydrodynamics
• Yoshida and Maeda Special Symposium on Ocean Space Utilization
• Offshore Renewable Energy
• Offshore Measurement and Data Interpretation
In addition, two workshops will also be offered. They are:
1) Industrial Workshop on Risers for Deepwater - Worldwide Field Experiences
2) Industrial Workshop on Advances on Strain-Based Designs of Pipelines
With a record high number of abstracts received so far, we certainly
foresee a fruitful conference in June 2008 under the chairmanship of
Prof. Carlos Guedes Soares.
In addition to our 2008 OMAE conference, OOAE will present a forum
on opportunities for FPSO’s in the Gulf of Mexico, which is to
be held in Houston during March 26-27, 2008. The objectives of this
workshop are to highlight challenges and opportunities and foster open
discussion of experiences in the developments leading to the use of
FPSO’s in the Gulf of Mexico. The open forum will weigh perceived
and experienced differences in planning and operating FPSO’s
in the Gulf of Mexico as compared with other regions and environments,
and how this affects the applications of FPSO’s in future development
studies. The presented topics will focus on studies/planning, design,
regulatory, and operational impact, including:
• Regulatory
perspective
• Operator perspective/experience in the Gulf of Mexico
• Comparing the Gulf with other regions around the world
• Stationkeeping and turret issues
• Export challenges
• Riser issues
• Other FPSO designs
In connection with this forum, OOAE together with ASME-IPTI will offer
a short course on FPSO to provide you with an overview of seakeeping
and offloading aspects of FPSOs and the various choices that are available
to address FPSO design issues. Some examples of design issues include
vessel and mooring concept selection. The course will be presented
by Marin and SBM Atlanta.
OMAE is also co-sponsoring with CORE in National University of Singapore
a specialty symposium in Marine Operations Specialty Symposia (MOSS),
which is to be held in Singapore during March 6-7, 2008. The need for
such a symposium is demonstrated by the boom of shallow and deepwater
operations and facility installation activities worldwide from universities,
research institutes, third parties, and offshore industries. In general,
this symposium will cover all offshore operation and installation-related
issues.
Looking forward, we are glad to announce that the 2009 OMAE Conference
will be held in Hawaii and the 2010 OMAE Conference will be held in
Shanghai.
Thank you very much for your support and we will see you in Estoril,
Portugal!
OOAE Division Chair
2007 – 2008
Dr. Xiaozhi (Christina) Wang
American Bureau of Shipping
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