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Offshore Goteborg (continued from page 12) ticular, Odd S. Haraldsen of the

Norwegian Ministry of Oil and En- ergy, and Ole-Jacob Kvinns- land, managing director of Noroil, will speak for Norway; Michael

Morrow, managing director of Pe- troleum News SEA, Hong Kong, will cover the Southeast Asian scene, while Dr. Tongchat Hon- gladaromp and Pratkal Oudo- mugsorn, respectively governor and deputy director of the Petro- leum Authority of Thailand, will deal with oil exploration and pro- duction in their country.

Of the following conference ses- sions, three will be devoted to Deep

Diving and two each to Station

Keeping, Computer Applications, and Offshore Lifts. Ten single ses- sions will cover a wide spectrum of subjects relevant to the surveying of ocean areas; to the design, construc- tion, commissioning, operating, maintenance, and safety of plat- forms and pipelines; and to project planning and administration.

Conference Highlights

Sessions on Deep Diving—Opera- tions on Tuesday morning, chaired by Oistein Martinsen of Stolt-

Nielsen Seaway Contracting A/S,

Norway, and on Deep Diving—

Equipment on Wednesday morning, chaired by Dr. Bjorn H. Hjertag- er, head of research at the Chr.

Mikkelsen Institute, Norway, will be rounded off on Wednesday after- noon by a panel discussion on Deep

Diving—Divers or ROVs?

Panel members will include: O.

Chr. Andersen, manager, diving technology, Statoil, Norway; Ber- nard Debano, project manager,

Comex Services, France; Dr. Hans

Ornhagen, senior researcher, FOA 58, Sweden; Capt. Bob Fitch,

Stena (UK) Ltd.; Don McGregor, manager, Stolt-Nielsen Seaway

Contracting A/S, Norway; Norman

Chambers, Sub Sea Offshore Ltd.,

U.K.; and Rolf Asplund, managing director, SUTEC, Sweden. Chair- man of the panel debate will be

Erik Hultmark, director of the

National Marine Resources Com- mission, Sweden.

A session on Tuesday morning entitled Onboard Computer Sys- tems will deal with practical appli- cations including the training of off- shore installation teams, dynamic positioning in survey operations, process control, and computer-as- sisted design. The chairman will be

Ralph Norrby of KaMeWa AB,

Sweden.

The first of five papers will be one from Roger Bostrom of ASEA,

Sweden, on an integrated process control and monitoring system.

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