Deep-Ocean Mining, Gas Hydrates and

Deep-Ocean Water Production To Be Presented

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA, February 5 ― The 7 th (2007) ISOPE Ocean Mining (& Gas Hydrates) Symposium — OMS-2007 will be held at the 17^th International Offshore (Ocean) and Polar Engineering Conference & Exhibition ¾ ISOPE-2007 Lisbon, at Corinthia Lisboa Hotel, Lisbon on July 1-6, 2007. This symposium addresses the latest technologies for deep-ocean mining, gas hydrates and deep-ocean water production. The Conference as well as the symposium is sponsored by International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE)

Eight sessions are organized as follows:

51. OMS-2007 OCEAN MINING I  (V. 1)

58. OMS-2007 OCEAN MINING II: DOW (V. 1)

68. OMS-2007 OCEAN MINING III: Gas Hydrates 1 (V. 1)

78. OMS-2007 OCEAN MINING IV: Gas Hydrates 2 (V. 1)

88. OMS-2007 OCEAN MINING V: Gas Hydrates 3 (V. 1)

98. OMS-2007 OCEAN MINING VI  (V. 1)

108. OMS-2007 OCEAN MINING VII  (V. 1)

118. OMS-2007 OCEAN MINING VIII  (V. 1)

Click on OMS-2007 for the list of the papers to be presented in each session.

Thes peer-reviewed papers includes the latest developments in seafloor mining vehicles, vertical multi-phase flows of manganese nodules, manganese crusts, sulfide and methane hydrates. Also the recent progess with “Chikyu” of Japan, deep-ocean water production and deep-ocean environment. 

The ISOPE OMS-2007 Symposium papers will be included in Volume 4 of the ISOPE-2007 Lisbon Conference Proceedings CD-ROM (ISBN 1-880653-68-0; ISBN 978-1-880653-68-5). The Proceedings (3,600 pp. est.) will be available from ISOPE during and after the Conference.

ISOPE-2007 Lisbon Conference program consists of some 550 peer-reviewed papers from 48 countries in 120 sessions and 7 plenary sessions

Click on www.isope.org for further information:  General Information, Publication, Author Index, Program Updates and Forms for Advance Registration and Venue Hotel Reservation.

By Technical Program Committee, ISOPE meetings@isope.org