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Annual Offshore Technology

Conference At Astrohall In

Houston, Texas Set For May 1-3

A 200-paper technical program emphasizing the relationship between offshore development and environmental control, plus a 60,000- square-foot exhibits display will be part of the activities awaiting registrants at the Fourth

Annual Offshore Technology Conference May 1-3, 1972, at the Astrohall in Houston, Texas.

The conference, which was founded in 1968, is jointly sponsored by nine international engi- neering and scientific societies and is recog- ized as the world's leading annual meeting on ocean research and technology.

Six of the 33 technical sessions at the 1972

OTC will be devoted to the problems associated with the protection of the environment during offshore exploration and development opera- tions. The remainder of the program will offer a broad range of engineering and scien- tific subjects related to the development of the oceans. Scheduled session topics include waves and currents, wave structure interaction, ocean state prediction, marine geology, vessels, electronic navigation, techniques of offshore construction, design of offshore structures, legalities and insurance, drilling, the Arctic, and communications technology.

To complement ithe extensive technical pro- gram at the conference, some 400 of the world's leading offshore service and manufacturing companies will display their latest technologi- cal developments in a technical educational exhibits show. The 1971 conference featured a 560-booth exhibits display, and the exhibi- tion at ithe 1972 OTC is expected to foe even larger. Registration .for the conference will open at 7:30 a.m. Monday, May 1, in the lobby of the Astrohall. The exhibits portion of the conference will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday. Technical sessions will be conducted from 10 a.m. to noon, and from 2 to 5 p.m. On Monday; from 9:30 a.m. to noon, and 2 to 5 p.m. on Tuesday; and from 9 a.m. ito noon, and 1:30 to 4 :30 p.m. on Wednesday.

Advance registration deadline for the Fourth

Annual Offshore Conference is April 15, 1972.

The sponsors of the Offshore Conference include the American Institute of Mining,

Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (The

Society of Mining Engineers of AIME, The

Metallurgical Society of AIME, and The So- ciety of Petroleum Engineers of AIME) ; The

American Association of Petroleum Geologists;

The American Institute of Chemical Engi- neers ; The American Society of Civil Engi- neers ; The American Society of Mechanical

Engineers (Petroleum Division) ; The Marine

Technology Society; The Institute of Electri- cal and Electronics Engineers (Aerospace and

Electronics Systems Group, Communications

Technology Group, and Geoscierice Electronics

Group) ; The Society of Exploration Geo- physicists, and The Society of Naval Archi- tects and Marine Engineers.

TECHNICAL SESSION TIMETABLE

MONDAY

Morning

Geoscience

Generation of

Waves & Currents

Movement and

Sorbent Cleanup

Production

Moorings

The Offshore

Environment

Afternoon

Exploration and

Sample Analysis

Mechancial

Cleanup Devices

Wave Structure

Interaction

Underwater

Activities I

Pipelines

Corrosion

TUESDAY

Morning

Dredging,

Production and

Transportation

Ocean State

Prediction

Drilling

WEDNESDAY

Morning

Analysis and

Design of Off- shore Structures

Communications

Technology

Terminals

Soil Mechanics Marine Geology

Safety in Offshore

Resource Develop- ment on the Outer

Continental Shelf

Afternoon

Oil Slick Detection and Containment

Wave Theory

Techniques of Off- shore Construction

Vessels

Underwater

Activities II

U.S. and Canadian

Governmental

Safety Programs

Legalities, Insur- ance, Economics and Environ- mental Control

Afternoon

Electronic

Navigation

Offshore

Environmental

Quality Control

Arctic

Statistics of Waves

Interaction of Structures and Foundations

The 1972 OTC program committee is com- prised of the following: A.E. Woelfel, Cameron

Iron Works, chairman; James A. Klotz, Union

Oil Co. of California, SPE of AIME; J. Leslie

Goodier, Arthur D. Little, Inc., SME of AIME;

Robert Rothman, Batelle Memorial Institute,

TMS of AIME; Alan Lohse, Gulf Universities

Research Corp., AAPG; W.F. Mcllhenny, The

Dow Chemical Co., AIChE; Hudson Matlock,

The University of Texas at Austin, ASCE;

Ross Kastor, Shell Development Co., ASME-

Petroleum Division; Ernest Kristler, Lock- heed Electronics Co., MTS; Michael Sims, Na- tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency,

IEEE; Sidney Kaufman, Shell Development

Co., SEG, and Donald Frisby, Armco Steel

Corp., SNAME.

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