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Expert Access

LIVE SESSIONS GLEAN

EXPERT KNOWLEDGE

Left: Adrian Goodwin,

Bolshoy Bhattacharya, Paul

Hutton, Martin Brown and

Ian Frazer, from GL Noble

Denton

Below left: Will Watson, offshore drilling and production marketing man- ager, Caterpillar Marine &

Petroleum Division and Dr

Peter Longstaff, ExxonMobil

Fuels & Lubricants

Below: Offshore Engineer’s

Paul Hutton (standing) with Will Watson, offshore drilling and production marketing manager,

Caterpillar Marine & Petro- leum Division and Dr Peter

Longstaff, ExxonMobil Fuels & Lubricants

PE Offshore Europe 2013 saw The frst was dedicated to foating The second seminar was titled Floating

Offshore Engineer host three live production, specifcally, understanding the Production: Advanced Inspection and

Expert Access sessions, featuring technical, environmental, and regulatory Maintenance Strategies.

senior staff from ExxonMobil, aspects. The session saw GL Noble Denton’s GL Noble Denton’s Steven Coull spoke on

Caterpillar and GL Noble Denton. Ian Frazer outline the functional requirements ftness for purpose assessments. The process

S

The frst, Optimising Safety, Environmental for foating production, storage and offoading for structural assessment of a foating unit

Care and Performance in the Oil & Gas vessels and the key drivers to consider during and its three-stage process, including data

Industry, was with ExxonMobil Fuels & the early concept stages. recovery, review of data and reassessment

Lubricants/TLC/Caterpillar. GL Noble Denton’s Martin Brown then set process.

Dr Peter Longstaff from ExxonMobil Fuels out the different types of mooring systems Samuel Ogunkolade, from GL Noble & Lubricants set out the change in lubricant available for foating production and the Denton, then went on to discuss process technology over the past 25 years, and how importance of integrity assessments. safety, changing needs, duty of equipment, life lubricants can help engineers improve safety, Bolshoy Bhattachary discussed dynamic of assets and how to identify a change. This environmental care and productivity. positioning and how it can give an insight included a case study on Piper Alpha.

Will Watson (offshore drilling and into future incidents, what can happen if a GL Noble Denton’s Stewart Myles production marketing manager, Caterpillar failure occurs and a brief insight into how a discussed refning inspection, using

Marine & Petroleum Division) discussed system works. integrity operating window management offshore products that meet emissions Adrian Goodwin then talked about third system, how to set limits for critical process standards and safety regulations, and how party inspections and how important it is variables and how to keep within the these can meet the needs of the future. to capture defects at an early stage. He also parameters.

This was followed by two further detailed the importance of making sure All three live sessions were also recorded sessions, organised in association with equipment, when being fabricated, is exactly and are now available to be viewed by going

GL Noble Denton. to specifcation. to: www.oedigital.com/oe-oe.

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