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Taking on the Arctic – Tools & Technologies to Open the Frozen Frontier

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When: Anytime, at your convenience.
Where: Your Computer
Cost: $50

This webinar will also be available on demand at any time after the live broadcast.

Overview:
The US Geological Survey estimates that 22% of the world’s yet-to-find oil and gas reserves lie in the arctic. It is an enormous resource basin that is largely unexplored, and it poses enormous challenges for the oil and gas industry.

This Web broadcast, featuring three world renowned ice experts, addresses ice management and its impact on research efforts directed toward developing floating production systems and creating the guidelines and rules that will govern arctic operations.
     
What you will learn:
• How the complexity of ice affects the work environment offshore
• What construction innovations have been introduced to allow floating production systems to work in ice conditions
• What initiatives are under way in the form of joint industry projects to more rapidly advance the understanding of arctic operations
• How the class societies are progressing the formulation of rules and guidelines for working in the arctic.

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Featured Speakers:

Dr. Roger Basu

Director, Director of Research & Development Ships American Bureau of Shipping (ABS)

Roger I. Basu is a structural engineer with over thirty-five years’ experience. His early work was in the structural design and analysis of buildings, bridges, and offshore structures. For the last twenty years, Basu has focused exclusively on ship and offshore structures, with areas of specialization that include fatigue, fracture and vibration analysis, and risk and reliability methods. Prior to joining ABS in 1997, Dr. Basu worked for 10 years at a naval architectural firm in Ottawa, Canada.
In his current role at AS, Dr. Basu is responsible for applied research in support of the development of tools and technologies for the assessment of ship and offshore structures and leads the ice program, with the aim of developing methodologies and tools for assessing ships and offshore structures operating in ice.

Dr. John Murray

Director of Technology Development FloaTEC LLC, Houston

Dr. Murray has over 25 years’ experience working on offshore structure designs for open water and ice-covered regions. He started his career with the National Research Council Canada in 1985, where he was head of the Ocean Engineering Program, responsible for the Council’s national offshore development program. In 1997, he joined Spars International Inc. in Houston. For the past 11 years, Murray has worked primarily in concept development for deepwater floaters and riser designs. Murray holds a PhD in Ocean Engineering, has published over 100 technical papers in journals and conference proceedings, and holds a number of patents. He is a registered professional engineer in Canada and the State of Texas.

Dr. Gus Cammaert

Program Director, Arctic Technology DNV Research and Innovation DNV, Norway

Dr. Cammaert has over 30 years’ experience in arctic technology, specializing in ice interaction with platforms and ships. Before joining DNV in 2001, he was professor of ocean engineering at Memorial University in St. John’s, Canada. He also worked at that time with an international consulting firm in their offices in Calgary and Toronto. Dr. Cammaert has advised on cold climate projects in the Barents Sea, the Canadian Arctic and East Coast, offshore Alaska, Bohai Bay, and the Sea of Okhotsk. He is author of a reference text on ice interaction with offshore structure, and numerous conference papers. Currently he heads a research group at DNV that is developing new tools, services, and standards addressing Arctic challenges such as ice loading, icing on ships and platforms, emergency evacuation, and materials for cold climates.


About the Moderator:

Judy Maksoud

Judy Maksoud, Executive Editor of E&P magazine, has 15 years of oil and gas industry experience, including work in the seismic and drilling fluids sectors of the industry. Judy joined Hart in 2007, having worked as the International Editor for Offshore magazine for six years, during which she covered global exploration and production activities. Judy holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and history and a Master of Arts degree in English. She covers technology advances in the offshore sector for E&P.