SYNOPSIS

Ship-shaped offshore units are some of the more economical systems for the development of offshore oil and gas fields and are often preferred in marginal fields. These systems are especially attractive when developing oil and gas fields in deep and ultra-deep-water areas and locations remote from existing pipeline infrastructures. Recently, the ship shaped offshore units have also been considered for application to near-shore oil and gas terminals.

Alternatively, floating production, storage and offloading vessels (FPSOs) are becoming increasingly popular for extracting oil and gas from offshore areas. Although most FPSOs are designed to weathervane into the prevailing wind, they are susceptible to roll motions.

This talk is an ideal reference on the technologies for designing, building, and operating ship-shaped offshore units, within inevitable space (and time) requirements. This includes a range of topics, from the initial contracting strategy to the decommissioning and the removal of the units concerned. Coverage includes both fundamental theory and principles of the individual technologies. This topic will also be useful to students who are approaching the subject for the first time as well as designers working on the engineering for ship-shaped offshore installations.


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Assoc. Professor. Dr. Venkatesh Rajagopalan (Venkat) graduated from Annamalai University, India with a degree in Structural Engineering in 1989 with a Post graduate degree in Engineering Management and Post-Doctoral in Structural Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has more than 26 years of working experience in various roles.He is appointed as Visiting faculty for various institutions in India, Malaysia and Australia.

He is currently the Deputy Manager of the Structural Department in Aker Engineering Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. He is also the Technical Head of R&D Network specializing in Knowledge based engineering solutions in Aker Solutions, Norway.

He has presented talks at various symposiums in India, Singapore and Australia on Design on Offshore structural related topics.