Webinar: Engineering On, In and Under the Sea
IMarEST TV recording by the North East Coast Joint Branch on the 22nd October 2020. This webinar was presented by North East Coast Joint Branch and the Society for Underwater Technology.
This webinar delves into the latest design, construction and operations of ship-shaped offshore installations with four interlinked presentations moving from the shipyard to the seabed:
- Are offshore installations a shipyard business? - Paul Stott
- The Drivers and Challenges in the Design of Floating Offshore Assets – Keith Hutchinson
- A Review of Mooring System Solutions for Floating Offshore Assets – Jon Dunstan
- Surface to Seabed: Integrating Well Control, Processing and Subsea Infrastructure – Alan Dobson
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About the speakers:
Paul Stott is originally from Liverpool and first ambition was to be a seafarer. He joined the British Merchant Navy as an apprentice, aged 16.
Keith Hutchinson is a Senior Consultant in Whole Ship Design and Naval Architecture with Safinah Group, where he undertakes commercial and offshore marine consultancy for a range of clients globally.
Jon Dunstan is a Chartered Engineer and a Civil Engineering graduate of Imperial College, London, with over 25 years’ experience in the Offshore energy sector spending most of his career in the design, construction and installation of fixed and floating offshore facilities.
Alan Dobson is a chartered Mechanical Engineer and holds a PhD in the application of artificial intelligence in subsea robotic systems from Newcastle University.