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Offshore Goteborg (continued from page 15) form fabrication, and the next gen- eration of platforms for very deep waters. The session will be chaired by Hans Lindgren, managing di- rector, SSPA Maritime Consulting

AB, Sweden. Participants will in- clude: Prof. S. Bernander,

SKANSKA, Sweden; J. Brian

Cook, engineering manager of Shell (UK) Exploration and Production;

Dr. Svein Fjeld, vice president- technology and products, A/S Veri- tec, Norway; Andrew F. Hunter, supervisor marine engineering, Con- oco Inc., U.S.; Sven Plahte, vice president-technology and projects,

Norsk Hydro A/S, Norway; and Jay

B. Weilder, senior vice president,

Brown & Root Inc., U.S.

Four papers will be presented on

Wednesday morning to highlight the supreme importance of materi- als administration for any prospec- tive supplier of hardware to the off- shore industry, and to provide guid- ance on how material of the right quality can be made available in the right quantity at the right place and time. Prof. Dag Ericsson of Resu- radministration Dag Ericsson AB and Chalmers University of Tech- nology, Sweden, will chair the ses- sion. He will also deliver a paper on

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Management Philosophy. Papers on similar themes will be presented by

Sven Eigil Hoberg of Bedriftso- konomisk Institute, Norway, and

Hans M. Daastol of Norsk Hydro,

Norway, while Lars Backman, export manager of Wermex, Swed- en, will describe his company's en- deavors to become a competitive supplier to the offshore industry through materials administration.

Two sessions on Wednesday will be devoted to seven papers and a discussion of problems and solu- tions in the design, construction, and use of floating cranes and sheer- legs and their associated slings. The implications for the design of struc- tures to be lifted will also be consid- ered. The chairman for both ses- sions will be Peter H.B. Mitchell, consulting naval architect of Brown & Root (UK) Ltd.

Among papers to be presented will be one on lifting considerations in the design of heavy offshore mod- ules, by I.R. Horgan, senior man- ager-structural and marine engi- neering at Brown & Root (UK) Ltd.

The design of very large cranes for offshore construction will be exam- ined by Bruce A. Copp, chief pro- ject structural engineer at Clyde,

U.S., while naval architect Ulrich

Dischler of Neptun, West Germa- ny, will discuss economies in direct costs and time achieved by using advanced floating sheerlegs for in- shore and offshore erection of as- semblies before moving to site.

The subject of marine pipelines will be dealt with on Wednesday afternoon under the chairmanship of Malcolm Mitchell, engineering manager of Hamilton Bros. Ltd.,

U.K., who will also offer a paper, in conjunction with Dr. Raj Jain and

Stephen Williams of Brown &

Root Engineering Ltd., U.K., on the

Esmond pipeline, the first to be laid in the Dogger Bank area of the

North Sea. The line passes through a treacherous environment, requir- ing extensive hindcast, plus mathe- matical modelling. A number of new design concepts for stability, ca- thodic protection, mechanical con- nectors, and pipeline crossings will be discussed.

Peter Hinstrup, head of the

Offshore Department of DHI, Den- mark, and Helge Gravesen, se- nior hydraulic engineer of Ramboell og Hannemen, Consulting and Plan- ners A/S, Denmark, will speak on

Submarine Pipeline Design. Johan

Peter Schwartz of Seanor Engi- neering A/S, Norway, will discuss deepwater flowlines and alternative methods of installation, tie-in, and repair. Max Eliasson of Sydgas,

Sweden, will speak on Sweden's ac- cess to North Sea gas via the Ore- sund Pipeline. Dr. W.J. Supple and J.P. Kenny of the U.K., and T.

Thronsen of Saga Petroleum, Nor- way, will deliver a paper on The

Potential of J-Lay for the Troll

Field.

On Thursday morning, four pa- pers will be presented at a session chaired by Odd Tveit of Statoil,

Norway. The first, from Dr. Mark

Pyman of Technica A/S, Norway, will deal with the use of risk analysis techniques in the evaluation of plat-

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