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Brian Skeels is director of emerging technologies at FMC Faces of the Industry

Technologies, Inc. and adjunct professor-subsea engineering at the University of Houston. Brian has over 35 years of experience in subsea completion and pipeline design and installation, including ? ve years with Exxon Production

Research Co. working on its famous SPS and UMC subsea systems. As FMC

Technologies’ Emerging Technology Director, he serves as a technical subsea advisor and strategic planning specialist for frontier technologies and new busi- ness opportunities. His efforts delve into HPHT, riserless light well intervention,

ROV and remote robotics technology and subsea spill containment programs.

For 30 years, Brian has also partnered with the American Petroleum Institute in their upstream standards development and currently serves on API subcom- mittee 17 executive committee. He serves as task group chairman for 17G on subsea intervention systems, co-chair for 17D on subsea tree and wellhead equipment, and chair 17TR8 for HPHT equipment design. Brian is also an ASME

Fellow and serves on various industry advisory boards. Brian earned his B.S. in mechnical engineering from

Cornell Univeristy and his M.S. in ocean engineering from the University of Rhode Island. Brian is hitting another milestone this month when he turns 60. Happy birthday!

10,000 psi subsea tree in the to get caught up in ? xing your industry for the next crew change,” development of

Gulf of Mexico, the ? rst guide- problems, putting out one ? re great idea or solution. Skeels non-conventional materials and lineless horizontal tree in the after another, or meeting that laughed as he explained how composites, advances in remote

Gulf, the ? rst internal tieback latest deadline. But when its he had to ? gure out a compact and autonomous control and wellhead connection system time, you need to take some locking device for a project sensor technology, data mining from the ? rst ever production equal time to decompress and and was really stumped until – ability to reduce mounds of spar, and the ? rst 15,000psi get back to family. he noticed the spring loaded raw data into actionable sug- subsea tree in the Gulf.