Cupertino, California, May 19, 2006 ― 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.
Sakhalin LNG: An Energy Source for USA (Oral presentation)
Kerr, P, Meehan, D, Sakhalin Energy Investment Company, Yuzhno Sakhalinsk, Russia
Europe’s Wave Energy Development: Technological, Economical and Political Viewpoints
Sarmento, A, IST/Wave Energy Center, La Regina, V, Neumann, F, Wave Energy Center, Lisbon, Portugal
Materials Technology Application to Optimized Oil and Gas Field Developments
Eric J. Wright, ExxonMobil Development Company, Houston, USA
Development of International Pipeline Standards – History, Present Status and the Future (Oral presentation)
Eriksson, K, Collberg, L, Det Norske Veritas, Høvik, Norway
The 12/26/04 Indian Ocean Tsunami: Latest Modeling, Case Studies, and Perspectives for Tsunami Forecasting and Mitigation (Oral presentation)
Grilli, S, University of Rhode Island, USA; Ioualalen, M, IRD-Geosciences Azur, France; Asavanant, J, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Materials and Welding Engineering for ExxonMobil High Strain Pipelines
Daniel B. Lillig, Douglas S. Hoyt, ExxonMobil Development; Martin W. Hukle, Trendsetter Engineering; John P. Dwyer, Worrall Lees Associates; Agnes M. Horn Det Norske Veritas; Keith Manton, EWI Microalloying International, USA
Wave Generation and Absorption, Theory and Application
Naito, S, Osaka University, Japan
Recent Developments in Welding Technology
G S Booth, R L Jones and P L Threadgill, TWI, UK
Moan, Torgeir, Norwegian Univ of Science and Technology, Norway
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 46 countries will be attending, as in previous years.
The ISOPE-2006 San Francisco conference program and ISOPE HPM 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 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