Thanks for patiently waiting for us to announce the details of the 2023 Symposium. Our symposium committee is working hard to put together a successful in-person event this year. We have an exciting slate of talks, panel discussions and paper presentations that cover a wide range of relevant topics in the offshore industry.
07:00 – 08:30
Lobby
Registration
07:30 – 08:30
Pecan Room
Professional Practice Update/Ethics Course by TBPE
08:30 – 09:15
Red Oak Ballroom A/B
Opening Address
Current state of the US and global offshore markets and the changing landscape
Speakers: Matthew Tremblay, VP Offshore Global Markets, ABS
09:15 – 10:30
Red Oak Ballroom A/B
Panel Discussion
Offshore LNG – state of the industry and future opportunities
Speakers
- Moderator: Arjan Voogt (MARIN USA)
- Panellists
- Daniel Isaacson (WaveCrest Energy)
- Jens Kaalstad (Forward Offshore)
- Wouter Pastoor (Delfin Midstream)
10:30 – 10:50
Lobby
Coffee Break
Sponsored by Halton Marine
10:50 – 12:00
Morning Technical Sessions
Live Oak Room
Session Chair: Piotr Szalewski (DNV)
Results from the World’s Largest Arctic Ships and Advancements of Propulsion Technology
Samuli Hanninen, Sampo Viherialehto, Torsten Heideman, Pirjo Maattanen, Ahmad Arslan (ABB OY Marine and Ports)
Classification of Single Point Moorings as Offshore Battery Charging Stations
Joseph H Rousseau , Jude Tomdio (ABS)
Fuel Choices for Carbon Reduction and Impact on Vessel Design
Julian Gaitley (Herbert Engineering Corp)
Pecan Room
Session Chair: Amir Izadparast (Sofec)
Identifying Safety Leading Indicators for the Offshore Industry
Weihang Zhu, Ezra Wari (University of Houston), Rick Curtis, Kevin Mcsweeney (ABS), James Curry, Brian Craig (Lamar Univ)
High Entropy Alloys as a new alternative to corrosion resistant alloys for marine applications
Marcelo Paredes (Texas A&M)
Modelling Viscoelastic Behaviour is essential for accurate mooring analysis with HMPE ropes
Rigo Bosman, Marc Kanters, Binay Patel (Avient Protective Materials)
Elm Room
Session Chair : Amitava Guha (Exxon)
Method to develop fast response & live cruise CFD data stream to digital twinning control software
Serdar Firkan
Insight into parameters influencing wash displacement efficiency through CFD modelling
Amal Phadke, Lars Hovda (Conocophillips Company), Praveen Gonuguntla (Tridiagonal Solutions, Inc)
High-fidelity CFD simulations of a high-speed craft for towing tank tests in calm water
Ahmed Hamada (Texas A&M)
12:00 – 13:30
Red Oak Ballroom A/B
Lunch Keynote Address
Building a Jones-Act subsea rock installation vessel for the US Offshore Wind Industry
Speaker: Eleni Beyko, SVP Offshore Wind, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation
Announcements
SNAME Membership Awards
13:30 – 14:30
Afternoon Technical Sessions 1
Live Oak Room
Session Chair: Yuchen Shang (TAMU)
Hydrodynamic analysis of ducted marine turbine: Study on the duct and turbine efficiency
Seungnam Kim, Kyle S.Kumar, Spyros Kinnas (UT Austin)
Numerical Prediction of Skin Friction Coefficient by Coupling a Bem With X-Foil: Effect on the Hydrofoil and Propeller Performance
Thomas S. Wu, Seungnam Kim, Spyros A. Kinnas (UT Austin)
A Study of Multiple Wave Probe Methods to Resolve Wave Reflections
Ashley Mullen, Paul Koola, Sharath Girimaji (Texas A&M)
Pecan Room
Session Chair: Shiladitya Basu (KBR)
Spotlight Session on Normally Unattended Facilities (NUF)
Speakers
- William West (Shell)
- David Hodapp (Chevron)
- Marcelo Brochado (Petrobras)
14:30 – 14:50
Lobby
Coffee Break
Sponsored by GustoMSC
14:30 – 16:30
Read Oak Ballroom B
Exhibits: Student Posters
14:50 – 16:15
Afternoon Technical Sessions 2
Live Oak Room
Session Chair: Julian Gaitley (Herbert)
Actionable Carbon Intensity Benchmarking for OSVs
Patrick Sanguily (Spinergie)
Case Study of Creating a Brand New, Ultra-Efficient, Data-driven Offshore Independent Operator
Adrian Purdy (Cantium LLC), Colin Frost (Energective LLC)
Embedded Sensor Technology Application for Offshore Energy Industry
Achyut Kumar Allady (Smart Infrastructure Group), Ramesh Maini (Zentech Inc)
Pecan Room
Session Chair: Gaurav Singhal (Wood)
Port Infrastructure Upgrades for Offshore Wind and Commercial Fishing
Barbara A Stone, Ceasar Duarte (New Bedford Port Authority)
Missing the Mark – Why we will not meet our offshore renewable energy goals and how to fix it
Roy Robinson (Excipio Energy, Inc)
Case Study: Floating Wind Turbines, Large Corrective Operation
Thalia Kruger (Principle Power)
Hydromine, a novel utility level hydro-kinetic system powering Power to X
Carsten Westergaard (Westergaard Solutions, Inc)
16:00 – 17:00
Live Oak Room
SNAME T&R Sessions
SNAME Offshore Committee T&R Advisory Panel
Alberto Morandi
J-Reg JIP: Development of guidelines for site-specific assessments of offshore wind Jack-ups
Jim Brekke
Principles of underwater intervention
Roy Thomas
Application of the robustness philosophy to offshore challenges new and existing
Brian Cheater
Red Oak Ballroom B
Student and Young Professionals Meet and Greet
17:00 – 19:00
Red Oak Ballroom B
Drinks Reception
Please visit https://www.snamesymposium.com/speakers/ to check the bios of the speakers. Also, don’t forget to register at https://www.snamesymposium.com/symposium-registration/ .The early bird prices run through Feb 21, 2023.