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

 

 

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.

 

Opening Session and Plenary Presentations

 

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

 

Jin S Chung Award Lecture

Fatigue Reliability of Marine Structures – From the Alexander Kielland Accident to Life Cycle Assessment of Safety

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