ISOPE-2009 Conference Best Paper Award Presented in Beijing to

 Dr. J. F. Kuo and Co-authors of ExxonMobil, Houston, Texas

Beijing, China, July 1, 2010 ¾ The International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE) announced recipients of its ISOPE-2009 Osaka Best Paper Award at the ISOPE-2010 Beijing Conference Banquet:

LNG Tank Sloshing Assessment Methodology – The New Generation

J.F. Kuo, R. B. Campbell, Z. Ding, S. M. Hoie, A. J. Rinehart, R. E. Sandström, T. W. Yung,

M. N. Greer, M. A. Danaczko, ExxonMobil Upstream Research and ExxonMobil Development, Houston, Texas

The paper was presented at the Nineteenth (2009) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Osaka, Japan, July 21-26, 2009.

The Award plaque was presented at the Annual ISOPE-2010 Beijing Conference Banquet. Prof. Miksad explained that the Committee, after evaluating 35 nominations, had short-listed 3 papers, on topics of LNG sloshing, pipe laying and slamming. As the paper selected as Best Paper must receive at least 3 evaluations, the Committee then asked a panel of 9 experts in each field for an expert evaluation. Screening through the qualification requirements ¾ originality and significance of the results ¾ and based on the 6 expert evaluations, the Committee recommended the Best Paper from the Nineteenth (2009) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference.

Nomination and Evaluation Procedure. Session chairmen, session organizers and editors of the International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering made their nominations from among the papers presented in the previous year. Only those papers are initially selected that either have already been accepted for Journal publication or are slated for further Journal review. Then a pool of potential judges, who are very knowledgeable in one or more fields of the nominees' topics, or have chaired or co-chaired the particular sessions, ranked the papers in their field(s) on the basis of the originality and significance of the results. (The nominees are naturally excluded from the list of judges.)  The nominated papers represent expertise areas as well as geographic balance.

ISOPE Award Committee