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Programme Day 1 Monday 21 September 2009

8.30 Registration

9.30 Welcome/Opening

9.45 Keynote Address: Professor B. Buchner, MARIN

10.15 Application of Environmental Contour Lines - A Summary
of the Work so far
G. Sagli Baarholm and S. Haver

10.45 Coffee/Tea Break

11.15 Future Trends in the Application of Spar Platforms
A. Sablok and S. Barras

11.45 Second Order Force and Response of a Cylindrical FPSO
in Random Waves, Y. Zhang and R.S. Langley

12.15 Hydrodynamic Interaction of Semi-submersible-Spar
System Interconnected by a Rigid -Yoke
S. Nallayarasu, P. Siva Prasad

12.45 Lunch

14.00 Low Cycle Fatigue Assessment of Side Shell Details of an
FPSO, H. Raji, A. Incecik and N. Barltrop

14.30 Effects of Sloshing on Global Wave Loads of a FPSO
Vessel, Hoi-Sang Chan

15.00 Tea/Coffee

15.30 Mechanism of viscous damping of Spar-type structures
and heave plates, L. Tao

16.00 Slowly Varying Motion of a Semi-Submersibles
Predictions and Comparisons with Measuremenst
A. Hassan, A. Incecik, M. Downie and H. Chan

16.30 Short -Term Prediction of Extreme Ice Loads on Ship Hull
A. Suyuthi and B.J. Leira

18.00 Civic Reception, Glasgow City Chambers

Programme Day 2 - Tuesday 22nd September 2009

9.10 Risk Assessment of LNG Carriers Under Anticipated New
Circumstances
Toshiro Arima, Senichi Sasaki and M. Abdul Rahim

9.30 The Effect of Distortion on the Buckling Strength of
Stiffened Panels
P. Paul C, PK. Das, A. Crow and S. Hunt

10.00 Hydrodynamic Behaviour of the Grouped SLOR
Dr. D. Lee, D. Karunakaran and J. Mair

10.30 Coffee Break

11.00 Modelling of Steel Catenary Risers (SCRs) Installation by
Pre-Abandonment Recovery & Transfer Method
T. Sarkar, J. Tahirovic and T. Sriskandarajah

11.30 The Technical and Practical Challenges of Installing the
Ormen Lange Pipelines, M. Kennard

12.00 Fatigue Analysis of Staged Pipelay Operations
D. Ili and R. O’Grady

12.30 Lunch

14.00 Six-degrees of Freedom Motions of Spar Platform in
Irregular Waves, A. Maimun, B. Bodaghi, A. Priyanto, R.
Abdul Samad and M.J. Ketabdari

14.30 Efficient Dynamic Modelling of Deep Water Moorings and
Risers, A. Argyros and R S Langley

15.00 Fuzzy Risk Assessment for Spread Moorıng Systems
A. Mentes and smail H. Helvacioglu

15.30 Coffee/Tea Break

16.00 An Investigation on the effect of current directionality on
riser vortex-induced vibration, SK Manayankath and S.
Huang

16.30 A RANs Investigation of Breaking Wave Vertical
Acceleration
N Barltrop and N Ojieh

19.00 Conference Dinner

Programme Day 3 – Wednesday 23rd Setember 2009

9.00 Meeting Challenging Steel Catenary Risers (SCR) Fatigue
Performance Using Standard 1% Nickel Wire
P. H. Chong, S.N. Smith, K.J. Rodgers and M. Smith

9.30 Experimental Validation of a 3-Dimensional Umbilical
Cross-Section Model, Janne Gjøsteen

10.00 Developing a Deepwater Construction and Pipelay Fleet
SN. Smith, JR. McGregor, B. Rice, N. Currie and B. Hoffer

10.30 Coffee/Tea Break

11.00 Fatigue Analysis of Corners in Edge Attachment Details
L. Xu and N. Barltrop

11.30 Workshop I – FPSO’s
Panels: Dr. S Smith, Subsea7 – Chairman
Dr. Paul Frieze, PAFA
Prof. James McGregor, Consultant
Prof. N Barltrop, Universities of Glasgow & Strathclyde
Dr. Alwyn McLeary, BP
Prof. Dennis Macoy, Babcock Marine

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Workshop II – Current Issues in Risers & Moorings
Panels: Dr. D. Karunakaran, Subsea7 – Chairman
Dr. P. O’Brien, MCS
Prof. S Huang, Universities of Glasgow & Strathclyde
Dr. Dave Thomas, Orcina
Prof. L Tao, Newcastle University

15.30 Coffee/Tea Break

16.00 Visit to Hydrodynamic lab

17.30 End

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