Cupertino, California, March 26, 2009 ― The 19th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference & Exhibition (ISOPE-2009) will be held at Osaka International Convention Center, Osaka, Japan, June 21-26, 2009 with 121 sessions. The papers are selected from 940 abstracts received from 50 countries for peer review. All technical sessions and the annual ISOPE banquet take place at Osaka International Convention Center (OICC), and Reception at Rihga Royal Hotel next to the OICC.
ISOPE President
Sustainable Development and Marine Transport in the Arctic Ocean -- A Perspective and Ice Engineering
Prof. H. Kitakawa, Special Research Fellow, Ocean Policy Research Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
Goes Deep, China Oil and Gas Industry
Mr. W Chen, Sr. Vice President, CNOOC, Beijing, China
Enabling Materials Technologies for Deepwater and Arctic Developments
Dr. E. Wright, Manager, ExxonMobil Development Co., Houston, USA
Deeper Water: Past, Present and Future
Dr. S Kapusta, Chief Scientist, Shell Global Solutions International B.V., den Haag, The Netherlands
Office of Naval Research Science and Technology Program in Ocean Science and Engineering
Dr Walter F. Jones, Executive Director, Office of Naval Research, Washington, DC, USA
JIN S CHUNG AWARD LECTURE
Green Growth: The Right Approach to Multiple Energy Sources
Dr. Jay Koo, President, SK Energy, Seoul, Korea
LNG Tank Sloshing Assessment Methodology - The New Generation
Dr. Kuo, J F et al. ExxonMobil Upstream Research; ExxonMobil Development; ExxonMobil Production, USA, USA
Sloshing in Membrane LNG Carriers and Its Consequences from a Designer's Perspective,
Dr. Thomas Gavory et al., GTT, France
The Hughes Glomar Explorer and a 5,100-m-long Heavy-Lift Pipe: Coupled Ship and Pipe Motions Measured in the North Pacific Ocean
Prof. Jin S Chung, ISOPE, USA
Challenges for Ice Loads etc. in Sakhalin Projects: Engineering and Construction of Offshore/onshore Pipelines and Offshore Tanker Loading Unit
Dr. T Sakamoto, Nippon Steel Engineering, Tokyo, Japan
Progress in Modeling of Multiphase Flows and Thermodynamics in Oil and Gas Pipelines
Dr. Hellan, Ø et al., SINTEF, Norway
Lagrangian Particle Method - Advanced Technology for Numerical Wave Flume
Prof. H Gotoh et al., Kyoto University, Japan
Rate-dependent Nature of Liquefied Sand Undergoing Large Flow-Deformation and its Interaction with Group Pile Foundation
Prof. I Towhata et al., University of Tokyo, Japan
The final ISOPE-2009 Osaka conference program includes the symposia:
· The 1st ISOPE LNG Sloshing Dynamics (SDD-2009, 11 sessions)
· The 3rd ISOPE Strain-Based Design (SBD-2009, 7 sessions)
· The 7th ISOPE High Performance Materials (HPM-2009, 10 sessions).
· Additionally some topics are of large symposium size: For example, 15 sessions on Hydrodynamics and Computational Fluid Dynamics.
The annual ISOPE-2009 Osaka Conference is organized by International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE), Cupertino, California
The conference and symposium programs and the updates are being posted on www.isope.org.
By ISOPE-2009 Technical Program Committee (TPC). www.isope.org