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Symposia

Symposium Coordinator: R. Cengiz Ertekin, University of Hawaii, ertekin@hawaii.edu

Description: The offshore industry has been very active recently in deep waters, where oil & gas resources are abundant. Innovations and industry know-how have bloomed over the last few decades. Fixed platforms reach multiple thousands feet of water depths using compliant towers. Spars and TLPs have allowed dry trees in up to 5,000 feet; drill ships are stationed for weeks on DP, and we currently drill in over 10,000 feet of water depth. Areas of activities have increased as well! The North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico are no longer the epicenter of offshore activities. Oil reserves are now coming significantly online from West Africa and Brazil, while gas from Australia and Qatar is being transported worldwide in tankers that have tripled their capacity over the past couple of decades. The offshore industry's move into the deeper waters has created a need for innovation. We are however only at the forefront of the challenges. In the next decades, we will be active in harsher environments, including icebergs, even deeper waters, and will have to deal with more and more stringent legislations. We will need to continue improving our safety records, and be more environmentally aware. GHG and LCA will become common acronyms in our PowerPoint presentations, and we will discuss carbon footprint levels just as much as the trading price of an oil barrel. OMAE’s Offshore Technology (OFT) Symposium continues to stand ready to provide the necessary forum to link the present and the future of our industry. As in its previous editions, traditional and new sessions will be available this year in key areas of current and future interest in the offshore field. Design methodology, analytical tools, experimental techniques, structural and hydrodynamic modeling, applications in deepwater technology, and challenges for safe operations are some of the key topics discussed in the OFT symposium.

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1-1 Offshore Platforms
1-2 Station Keeping
1-3 Hydrodynamics
1-4 Design & Analysis
1-5 FLNG Technology
1-6 CFD Modeling Practice & Verification

1-7 Wave Loading and Motions in Extreme Seas
1-8 Digitalization, AI/ML, Digital Twins
1-9 Adapting/Mitigating Climate Change
1-10 Earthquake Design
1-11 Internal Waves

Symposium Coordinator: Carlos Guedes Soares, Instituto Superior Técnico, c.guedes.soares@centec.tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Description: This symposium addresses probabilistic methods that allow the description of loading and strength variables, which constitute the basic information necessary for the assessment of the reliability of structures.

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2-1 Structural analysis and optimization; Strength of tubular joints
2-2 Ultimate Strength
2-3 Collision and Crashworthiness
2-4 Extreme and Freak Waves; Probabilistic and Spectral Wave Modelling
2-5 Extreme Loads and Responses
2-6 Probabilistic Models of Forces and Motions

2-7 Data-driven Models for Marine Structures
2-8 Risk and Reliability of Renewable Energy Devices
2-9 Reliability of Mooring and Riser Systems
2-10 Reliability of Structural Components in Marine Structures; Pipelines & Floating Production Systems
2-11 Fatigue and Fracture Reliability

2-12 Reliability Based Maintenance and Inspection Planning; Life Cycle Cost Optimization
2-13 Risk Analysis and Safety Management; Safety against Oil Pollution, Fire and Explosion Safety
2-14 Human Factors in Systems Operation
2-15 Well Integrity and Reliability Assessment

Symposium Coordinator: Mamdouh Salama, ConocoPhillips, mmsalama@mms4aim.com

Description: With the continued pressure on oil and gas prices, materials technology is playing an ever increasing role in ensuring the economic development and safe operation of the offshore and arctic industry. The symposium addresses topics such as improvement in weld metal and heat-affected zone properties, new technology in underwater welding and inspection, recent advances in steel technology, application of aluminum and titanium in offshore structures, fatigue life prediction, threaded and tubular joints, fracture control, oil-field elastomers, and composite materials.

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3-1 Fracture Assessment and Control
3-2 Fatigue Performance and Testing
3-3 Integrity Assessment and Life Extension

3-4 Environmental Effect on Materials Performance
3-5 Inspection, Repair and Monitoring
3-6 Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Technology
3-7 Integrity of Pipeline Systems

Symposium Coordinator: Theodoro Netto, COPPE-Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Symposium Co-Coordinator: Duane Degeer, INTECSEA, duane.degeer@intecsea.com

Description: Pipeline, Risers, and Subsea Systems Symposium provides a forum for sharing recent experiences, innovative analyses and novel designs, improved inspection, repair, and monitoring techniques related to offshore pipelines, flow lines, risers, and subsea equipment. Our Symposium encourages the submission of papers on all areas related to subsea technology.

Technical sessions will cover topics such as design, construction and installation, mechanics of pipelines, rigid risers and flexible pipes, pipe-soil interaction, and flow assurance.

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4-1 Flexible Pipes and Umbilicals
4-2 Rigid Risers
4-3 Rigid Pipelines

4-4 Subsea Structures and Equipment
4-5 Flow Assurance

Symposium Coordinator: Tomoki Ikoma, Nihon University, ikoma.tomoki@nihon-u.ac.jp

Description: The Oceans represent the next frontier to provide sustainable food, energy, resources and land space for humanity. This symposium was initiated to cover the emerging technologies. Technical areas currently covered by Ocean Space Utilization Symposium are quite broad, and they are very large floating structures, deepsea mining, ocean renewable energy, underwater vehicle, food production, ocean environment, ocean management and new concept for ocean space utilization. New developments and novel concepts related to these areas are presented, and associated problems and challenges are identified and discussed.

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5-1 New Concepts for Ocean Space Utilization
5-2 Aquaculture and Related Technology
5-3 Deepsea Mining and Ocean Resources
5-4 CCUS and Underwater Development/ Utilization
5-5 Floating Systems for Renewable Energy
5-6 High Tide and Tsunamis
5-7 Environmental Assessment for Marine Renewable Energy

5-8 Utilization of Seawater
5-9 Coastal Zone Utilization
5-10 Very Large Floating Structure
5-11 Marine Spatial Planning and Marine Environment
5-12 Arctic Ocean Dynamics and Climate Change

Symposium Coordinator: Solomon Yim, Oregon State University, solomon.yim@oregonstate.edu
Symposium Co-Coordinator: Antonio Carlos Fernandes, acfernandes@oceanica.ufrj.br

Description: The purpose of the OCEAN ENGINEERING symposium is to bring together representatives of the ocean engineering community to discuss results of their work on design technology, linear and nonlinear phenomena and the development of experimental, observational and computational tools. The field of ocean engineering is very broad, encompassing from wave mechanics to underwater technology to advanced ship hydromechanics to marine environmental engineering and aquacultural engineering The symposium is an opportunity for the engineers in industry, university, and government to develop and foster collaborations in their endeavors to improve ocean technology.

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6-1 Computational Mechanics and Design Applications
6-2 Coastal Engineering
6-3 Fluid-Structure, Multi-body and Wave-body Interaction
6-4 Marine Engineering and Technology
6-5 Marine Hydrodynamics
6-6 Marine Environment and Very Large Structures
6-7 Metocean, Measurement and Data Interpretation
6-8 Model Tests
6-9 Offshore Industry: Aquaculture, Mining, etc.

6-9 Offshore Industry: Aquaculture, Mining, etc.
6-10 Offshore Industry: Structures and Design
6-11 Ocean Engineering Technology
6-12 Ship Hydromechanics
6-13 Towed and Undersea Cables and Pipes, Mooring, and Buoy Technology
6-14 Underwater Vehicles and Design Technology
6-15 Unsteady Hydrodynamics, Vibrations, Acoustics and Propulsion
6-16 Wave Mechanics, Modeling and Wave Effects

Symposium Coordinator: Sören Ehlers, German Space Centre (DLR), Institute for Maritime Energy Systems, Full Professor for Ship Structural Design and Analysis, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), ehlers@tuhh.de
Symposium Co-Coordinator: Walter Kuehnlein, terra.blue, wk@terra.blue

Description: It is estimated that the Arctic contains more than one third of the world’s undiscovered oil and gas. Although some development has already occurred, the region remains one of the last energy frontiers. But the region is also one of the most difficult areas in the world to work, due to its remoteness, the extreme cold, dangerous sea ice, and its fragile environment.

A key challenge will be developing and deploying solutions, which are currently at the cutting edge of technology. Transportation of gas and oil from such remote parts of the globe are also a huge challenge to the energy industry with high technology demands on structures, vessels and pipelines.

The Polar and Arctic Sciences and Technology Symposium promotes the understanding of the cold regions of the earth through environmentally compatible design and construction, safe operation, maintenance, and integrity of both offshore and onshore structures in these fragile regions. Going towards the Arctic is one of the most challenging and fascinating topic for engineers, researchers and environmentalists of various disciplines. Not alone, but only together we can make this happen.

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7-1 Arctic Oceans Dynamics and Climate Change
7-2 Arctic Frontier Regions
7-3 Ice and Wave Interactions
7-4 Arctic Sea Transportation
7-5 Structures in Ice

7-6 Vessels in Ice
7-7 Ice Model Tests
7-8 Numerical Ice Modeling
7-9 Marine Propulsion System Under Ice Impact

Symposium Coordinator: Yiannis Constantinides, Chevron, ycon@chevron.com

Description: The CFD, VIV and FSI symposium focuses on expanding international cooperation, understanding and promotion of efforts and disciplines in the areas of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Vortex-induced Vibrations (VIV), Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI) and advanced digital modeling. This symposium addresses issues associated with the use of CFD and advanced analysis methods in offshore applications, with an additional focus on digital twins, machine learning and advanced analytics.. While the topics are similar to many of those in other symposia, the emphasis is on the development and implementation of advanced computations, improvement of modeling capabilities, acquisition of validation data, experimental investigations, understanding and modeling of fluid structure interaction and demonstrations of the power of advanced simulations.

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8-1 Ship & Floating Systems
8-2 Free Surface Flows
8-3 Risers, Pipelines & VIV

8-4 Advanced Analytics
8-5 Digital Twins and Modeling
8-6 Internal Flows & FIV

Symposium Coordinator: Krish Thiagarajan Sharman, University of Massachusetts, ktsharman@asme-member.org

Description: Countries the world over have sensed the urgency to tackle climate change as weather events increase in severity with serious consequences on human lives and global economy. Ocean renewable energy harvesting supports clean energy initiatives while simultaneously attempting to protect the ocean environment. Offshore wind energy developments are big drivers that support energy transition from fossil fuel sources. Wave, tidal and other forms of energy harvesting are in various stages of technology development with some reaching commercial demonstration levels.

The objective of the ORE Symposium is to provide a forum for the presentation of relevant research, developments and views on technology and regulatory issues to enhance the exploitation of ocean renewable energy resources. Along with continued focus on renewable energy harvesting, we have also introduced current topics like floating solar, hydrogen technologies, carbon capture and storage.

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9-4 Hybrids & Floating Solar Energy
9-5 Hydrogen & Energy Storage
9-6 Carbon Capture & Storage

9-1 Offshore Wind Energy
9-2 Wave Energy
9-3 Current and Tidal Energy

Symposium Coordinator: Dr. Denby Morrison, FASME, Retired Shell Major Projects, denbyg.m5106@gmail.com

Description: The Offshore Geotechnics session presents recent scientific and engineering developments in geotechnical engineering with a focus on offshore applications. Topics include, but are not limited to: shallow and pile foundations, suction caissons, drag and plate anchors, centrifuge modeling, geohazards, site investigations, seabed mechanics, fluid-soil-structure interaction, geotechnics of pipelines, trenching, geoacoustics for seafloor characterization, in situ testing and sampling.

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10-1 Seabed Properties and Processes
10-2 Fluid-Soil-Structure Interaction
10-3 Anchors
10-4 Pile Foundations

10-5 Bucket Foundations, Suction Caissons and Spudcans
10-6 Pipeline Geotechnics

Symposium Coordinator: Ergun Kuru, University of Alberta, ekuru@ualberta.ca

Description: The Petroleum Technology Symposium is a technical event providing forum for researchers, engineers to share recent advances, discuss problems, and identify challenges associated with the "upstream" petroleum industry involved in extracting oil and natural gas from subsurface reservoirs. The ASME Transactions - Journal of Energy Resources Technology is the designated journal for the Symposium. Technical program of the Symposium covers theoretical and field studies, best practices, and emerging technology in few areas of petroleum engineering having most of recent advancement. The focus is on methods used for assessing and designing operations in petroleum wells drilling and production in deep water, conventional and unconventional petroleum reservoirs engineering and management, methods for enhancing petroleum recovery, subsurface sequestration of carbon using injection wells, multiphase petroleum transport in pipelines, and environmental implications of these operations.

Authors may also consider other topics in petroleum engineering such as operations in the hostile environments, oil and gas production, artificial lift; subsea production systems and processing; and well integrity control.

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11-1 Well Drilling Technology
11-2 Well Drilling Fluids & Hydraulics
11-3 Data Science Applications in Drilling
11-4 Well Cementing Theory & Practice
11-5 Integrity of Well Barriers
11-6 Permanent Well Abandonment

11-7 Production Systems and Subsea Operations
11-8 Multiphase Flow & Flow Assurance
11-9 Development of Unconventional Reservoirs
11-10 Advances in Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS)
11-11 Sustainability and Green Transition in Petroleum Industry
11-12 Digitalization of Subsurface Wells Systems, Subsea Systems and Operations

Symposoium Coordinator: Kevin Ewans, MRL, kevin.ewans@mrl.nz

Description: Professor Ian Young Honouring Symposium on Global Ocean Wind and Wave Climate. Professor Ian Young has made significant contributions to Physical Oceanography and Metocean Engineering in a number of areas, including spectral wave modelling, air-sea interaction, waves in finite water, satellite oceanography, tropical cyclone waves, global wind and wave climate, climate change impacts on the ocean, extreme value analysis, and global impacts of extreme sea levels.

The objective of the Professor Ian Young Honouring Symposium is to provide a forum for the presentation of relevant research, developments, and views on topics that Professor Young has contributed to over his career. Each session will consist of three presentations and then a panel Q&A session.

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12-1 Wave/ocean/atmosphere coupling
12-2 Nearshore processes and changes due to climate change
12-3 Global ocean wave climate
12-4 Climate change impacts on ocean waves

Symposium Coordinator: Nagi Abdussamie, AMC, UTAS, nagia@utas.edu.au

Description: The long-term strategy of the Blue Economy is aimed at unlocking the potential of the ocean resources, through the sustainable development of offshore seafood and renewable energy production systems. This symposium was initiated to cover emerging technologies in the context of the blue economy with a focus on aquaculture and renewable energy applications. Technical areas currently covered by Blue Economy Symposium are offshore aquaculture farming infrastructure (e.g., fish pen designs, seaweed/kelp production systems, mooring and anchoring systems), offshore artificial reefs, offshore aquaculture service vessels, multi-purpose offshore platforms (e.g., large integrated or co-located floating platforms for aquaculture farms and offshore renewable energy systems, wind-wave farms, floating energy islands, and floating laboratories), and offshore technologies for aquaculture farms and offshore renewable energy systems (e.g., autonomous marine systems, antibiofouling and net-cleaning solutions).

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13-1 Offshore Aquaculture Developments
13-2 Offshore Multi-Use Platforms
13-3 Marine Autonomous and Remote Sensing Technology
13-4 Offshore Green Energy Production, Storage and Distribution

13-5 Smart Offshore Operations
13-6 Sustainable Offshore Developments
13-7 Conservation of Marine Life and Oceans

Symposium Coordinator: Hong Zhang, Griffith University, Hong.Zhang@griffith.edu.au
Symposium Co-Coordinator: Venket Naidu, P & M Consultants Pty Ltd., venket.naidu@portsmaritime.com

Description: Small Maritime Nations, or island nations in the South Paicific and around the world, critically depend on the oceans, to a greater extent than inland countries, and therefore have their own set of maritime problems by comparison to mainland countries. They are also highly vulnerable to climate change and development pressure due to their size, isolation and exposure to maritime hazards. Most of the population of the nations and their majority of critical infrastructure are exposed to dynamic coastal and offshore hazards, where resilience is challenged. The Small Maritime Nations Symposium is to provide a forum for researchers, engineers and government policy makers to present and discuss current and emerging issues, technologies and challenges in the fields of offshore, ocean, environmental and maritime engineering of the nations. It is a great opportunity for interdisciplinary participants to network at an international level.

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14-1 Ocean, Coastal and Port Engineering in the South Pacific and Other Island Nations
14-2 Marine Transportation and Port Infrastructure
14-3 Blue Economies, Ocean Energy
14-4 Oil and Other Ocean Pollutions

14-5 Freshwater Supply and Security
14-6 Sustainable Development, Tourism and Climate change, Soft engineering
14-7 Engineering and Marine Life

Symposia

Symposium 1: Offshore Technology

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Symposium 2: Structures, Safety and Reliability

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Symposium 3: Materials Technology

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Symposium 4: Pipelines, Risers, and Subsea Systems

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Symposium 5: Ocean Space Utilization

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Symposium 6: Ocean Engineering

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Symposium 7: Polar and Arctic Sciences and Technology

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Symposium 8: CFD, VIV and FSI

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Symposium 9: Ocean Renewable Energy

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Symposium 10: Offshore Geotechnics

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Symposium 11: Petroleum Technology

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Symposium 12: Professor Ian Young Honouring Symposium on Global Ocean Wind and Wave Climate

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Symposium 13: Blue Economy Symposium

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Symposium 14: Small Maritime Nations Symposium

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