ISOPE-2006 San Francisco Conference, May 28-June 2:
 
91 Sessions and 5 Plenary Sessions

 

 

Cupertino, California, December 24, 2005 The 16th (2006) Annual International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference will be held at Grand Hyatt San Francisco Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA, May 28-June 2, 2006. All events and presentations take place in this hotel. ISOPE arranged special group room rates, and the ISOPE conference participants will have free internet access from their rooms.

 

Some 91 sessions of high-level refereed papers are organized in cooperation with its Technical Program Committee (TPC) members from 25 countries of the International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE) and 24 international cooperating organizations. Delegates from over 45 countries will be attending, as in previous years.

 

Opening Session and Plenary Presentations: Initial List

 

PNG Gas - Offshore Pipeline FEED Engineering Challenges

ExxonMobil Development Company, Australia

 

Sakhalin LNG: An Energy Source for USA

Sakhalin Energy Investment Co LTD, Russia

 

Europe’s Wave Energy Development: Technological, Economical and Political Viewpoints

IST and Wave Energy Center, Portugal

 

Materials Technology Application to Optimized Oil and Gas Field Developments

ExxonMobil Development Company, USA

 

The 12/26/04 Indian Ocean Tsunami: Latest Modeling, Case Studies, and Perspectives for Tsunami Forecasting and Mitigation

Grilli, S, University of Rhode Island, USA; Ioualalen, M, IRD-Geosciences Azur, France; Asavanant, J, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

 

Materials and Welding Engineering for the Sakhalin Island Phase 1 Oil Export Pipeline

Trendsetter Engineering; ExxonMobil Development; Worrall Lees Associates, USA;  Det Norske Veritas, Norway

 

Wave Generation and Absorption, Theory and Application

Naito, S, Osaka University, Japan

 

Recent Developments in Welding Technology

Threadgill, P, TWI, UK

 

 The final ISOPE-2006 San Francisco conference program and HPM-Fatigue and Residual Stress symposium programs, many special sessions such as LNG, sloshing, international standards, VIV, SCR, wave and wind energy, CFD and NWT, metocean,  tsunami, … and the updates are being posted on www.isope.org

 

Further information will be posted on www.isope.org or ISOPE-2006 San Francisco and/or can be obtained from the ISOPE (Tel. 1-650-254-1871; Fax 1-650-254-2038; meetings@isope.org; www.isope.org).

 

By ISOPE-2006 Technical Program Committee (TPC). www.isope.org