Ocean, Arctic and Energy Experts Gather at

Annual ISOPE-2009 Osaka Conference, June 21-26

 

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.

 

 

CONFERENCE OPENING SESSION

 

Monday, June 22, 09:00, Osaka International Convention Center, Room 1003, 10 F

 

Welcome Address

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

 

 

PLENARY AND KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

 

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