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Description: The offshore industry has been very active recently in deep waters. Innovations and industry know-how have bloomed over the last few decades. In addition to dealing with the design methodology, analytical tools, experimental techniques, structural and hydrodynamic modeling, applications in deepwater technology, and challenges for safe operations. In more recent conferences, the OFT symposium has dealt with the FLNG Technology, CFD Modeling Practice & Verification, Wave Loading and Motions in Extreme Seas, Digitalization, AI/ML, Digital Twins, Adapting/Mitigating Climate Change, Earthquake Design and Internal Waves as some of the key topics discussed in the OFT symposium. 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 legislation. 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.

Topics

  • 1-01 Offshore Platforms
  • 1-02 Station Keeping
  • 1-03 Hydrodynamics
  • 1-04 Design & Analysis
  • 1-05 FLNG Technology
  • 1-06 CFD Modeling Practice & Verification
  • 1-07 Wave Loading and Motions in Extreme Seas
  • 1-08 Digitalization, AI/ML, Digital Twins
  • 1-09 Adapting/Mitigating Climate Change
  • 1-10 Earthquake Design
  • 1-11 Internal Waves

 

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.

Topics

  • 02-01 Extreme Wave Modelling and Hindcast
  • 02-02 Extreme and Freak Waves
  • 02-03 Probabilistic and Spectral Wave Modelling
  • 02-04 Probabilistic Models of Forces and Motions
  • 02-05 Extreme Loads and Responses
  • 02-06 Data-driven Models for Marine Structures
  • 02-07 Reliability of Marine Structures and Components
  • 02-08 Risk and Reliability of Renewable Energy Devices
  • 02-09 Reliability of Mooring and Riser Systems
  • 02-10 Advanced Uncertainty Modeling
  • 02-11 Fatigue and Fracture Reliability
  • 02-12 Reliability Based Maintenance and Inspection Planning
  • 02-13 Risk Analysis and Safety Management
  • 02-14 Structural Analysis of Marine Structure and Components
  • 02-15 Ultimate Strength
  • 02-16 Collision and crashworthiness
  • 02-17 Digital Twins of Marine Structures

 

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.

Topics

  • 03-01 Fracture Assessment and Control
  • 03-02 Fatigue Performance and Testing
  • 03-03 Integrity Assessment and Life Extension
  • 03-04 Damage Mechanisms and their Qualifications
  • 03-05 Inspection, Repair and Monitoring
  • 03-06 Composite Materials for offshore and shipbuilding
  • 03-07 Materials Performance under extreme conditions

 

Description: Subsea Technology Symposium provides a forum for sharing recent advances, innovative analyses and novel designs on all areas related to subsea technology, including: - offshore pipelines, flowlines, risers, and umbilicals; - power cables; - subsea equipment; - remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs); - asset integrity management and life extension; - underwater energy harvesting; - subsea communications. Technical sessions will cover topics such as field development planning, design, construction, installation, inspection, repair, monitoring, and decommissioning of subsea systems and mineral mining.

Topics

  • 04-01 Flexible Pipes and Umbilicals
  • 04-02 Power Cables
  • 04-03 Rigid Risers
  • 04-04 Rigid Pipelines
  • 04-05 Subsea Structures and Equipment
  • 04-06 Integrity Management, Life Extension, and Decommissioning
  • 04-07 Underwater Vehicles
  • 04-08 Energy Harvesting
  • 04-09 Subsea Communications

 

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.

Topics

  • 05-01 VLFS and New Concepts for Ocean Space Utilization
  • 05-02 Aquaculture and Related Technology
  • 05-03 Deepsea Mining and Ocean Resources
  • 05-04 CCUS and Underwater Development / Utilization
  • 05-05 Floating Systems for Renewable Energy
  • 05-06 High Tide and Tsunamis
  • 05-07 Environmental Assessment for Marine Renewable Energy
  • 05-08 Marine Spatial Planning and Coastal Zone Utilization
  • 05-09 Global and Arctic Ocean Dynamics and Climate Change

 

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.

Topics

  • 06-01 Computational Mechanics and Design Applications
  • 06-02 Coastal Engineering
  • 06-03 Fluid-Structure, Multi-body and Wave-body Interaction
  • 06-04 Marine Engineering and Technology
  • 06-05 Marine Hydrodynamics
  • 06-06 Marine Environment and Very Large Structures
  • 06-07 Metocean, Measurement and Data Interpretation
  • 06-08 Model Tests
  • 06-09 Offshore Industry: Aquaculture, Mining, etc.
  • 06-10 Offshore Industry: Structures and Design
  • 06-11 Ocean Engineering Technology
  • 06-12 Ship Hydromechanics
  • 06-13 Towed and Undersea Cables and Pipes, Mooring, and Buoy Technology
  • 06-14 Underwater Vehicles and Design Technology
  • 06-15 Unsteady Hydrodynamics, Vibrations, Acoustics and Propulsion
  • 06-16 Wave Mechanics, Modeling and Wave Effects
  • 06-17 AI Technology for Ocean Engineering

 

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.

Topics

  • 07-01 Arctic Oceans Dynamics and Climate Change
  • 07-02 Arctic Frontier Regions
  • 07-03 Ice and Wave Interactions
  • 07-04 Arctic Sea Transportation
  • 07-05 Structures in Ice
  • 07-06 Vessels in Ice
  • 07-07 Ice Model Tests
  • 07-08 Numerical Ice Modeling
  • 07-09 Marine Propulsion System Under Ice Impact
  • 07-10 Scenario-Based Risk Management for Ice-Covered Waters: LRF- CEPOLAR Activities

 

Description: The CFD, FSI and AI symposium focuses on areas of advanced digital modeling, including Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Vortex-induced Vibrations (VIV), Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI), Flow-Induced Vibration (FIV), artificial intelligence (AI) and Design Optimization. The symposium addresses issues associated with the use of CFD and advanced analysis methods in offshore applications, with an additional focus on digital twins, reduced order modeling, 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.

Topics

  • 08-01 Ship & Floating Systems
  • 08-02 Free Surface Flows
  • 08-03 Risers, Pipelines & VIV
  • 08-04 CFD Development
  • 08-05 Model Reduction and Machine Learning
  • 08-06 Offshore Wind & Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
  • 08-07 Internal Flows & FIV

 

Description: The world's oceans are the lifeblood of the global climate, and provide us with water, food and energy. Harvesting renewable energy from the oceans 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 floating solar energy conversion 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 offshore wind, wave and tidal energy harvesting, we have also introduced current topics like floating solar, hydrogen technologies, carbon capture and storage.

Topics

  • 09-01 Wind Energy: Aero-hydrodynamics & Control
  • 09-02 Wind Energy: Moorings& Cables
  • 09-03 Wind Energy: Project Development, O&M
  • 09-04 Wind Energy: Structures and Arrays
  • 09-05 Wave Energy: Hydrodynamics, PTO & Control
  • 09-06 Tidal and Current Energy
  • 09-07 Floating Solar Energy
  • 09-08 Hybrid Energy
  • 09-09 CCUS and Hydrogen Storage

 

Description: Offshore and Coastal Geotechnical challenges, methods and solutions impacting interaction with the seafloor, station keeping/anchoring and positioning of offshore and coastal components, and behavior of offshore seafloor infrastructure.

Topics

  • 10-01 Seabed Properties and Processes
  • 10-02 Fluid-Soil-Structure Interaction
  • 10-03 Piles
  • 10-04 Anchors and Pipelines
  • 10-05 Bucket, Gravity Foundation and Caissons

 

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, natural gas and geothermal energy 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 oil and natural gas wells drilling and production in deep water, subsea production systems and processing, conventional and unconventional petroleum reservoirs engineering and management, methods for enhancing petroleum recovery, multiphase petroleum transport in pipelines, and environmental implications of these operations.

Authors may also consider other topics in subsurface energy systems engineering such as operations in the hostile environments, development of geothermal energy resources, carbon capture, utilization and subsurface sequestration of CO2 (CCUS), underground storage of hydrogen storage, liquified natural gas (LNG), life cycle assessment of subsurface energy systems, digitalization and data science applications in exploration and production of subsurface energy systems.

Topics

  • 11-01 Well Drilling Technology
  • 11-02 Well Drilling Fluids & Hydraulics
  • 11-03 Data Science Applications in Drilling
  • 11-04 Drilling Automation
  • 11-05 Well Cementing Theory & Practice
  • 11-06 Integrity of Well Barriers
  • 11-07 Petroleum Production: Offshore Systems and Subsea Operations
  • 11-08 Characterization of Subsurface Reservoirs and Flow Dynamics
  • 11-09 Advances in Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS)
  • 11-10 Sustainability and Green Transition in Petroleum Industry
  • 11-11 Digitalization and Automation of Offshore Systems and Production Operations  

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, hydrogen-powered vessels, floating energy islands, and floating laboratories), aand offshore hi-technologies for aquaculture farms and offshore renewable energy systems (e.g., autonomous marine systems, antibiofouling and net-cleaning solutions).

Topics

  • 12-01 Offshore Aquaculture Developments
  • 12-02 Sustainable Offshore Developments
  • 12-03 Offshore Multi-Use Platforms
  • 12-04 Marine Autonomous and Remote Sensing Technology
  • 12-05 Offshore Green Energy Production, Storage, Distribution and Export
  • 12-06 Smart Offshore Operations
  • 12-07 Decommissioning and Repurposing of Offshore Oil & Gas Infrastructure
  • 12-08 Decarbonization of Maritime Industry
  • 12-09 Offshore Support Vessels Powered by Green Hydrogen and Ammonia
  • 12-10 Human Element, Training & Education

Description: Within the ongoing interest in renewable energy from the ocean, the OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) is increasingly standing as a concrete option. Recent knowledge about ocean temperature stratification, the composite option for the cold water pipe material, the control of high Reynolds VIV (Vortex Induced Vibration), the use of hybrid alternatives such as solar energy to increase the temperature gradient, the development of the organic Rankine cycle, the use of ocean bottom declivity and so on has justified this boom. Finally, correlated developments such as the SWIR (Seawater Intake Water) confirm this trend, fully justifying the Specialty Symposium.

Topics

  • 13-01 Site thermal potential for OTEC
  • 13-02 Economical assessment of OTEC applications
  • 13-03 Cold water pipe and SWIR design challenges: Material
  • 13-04 Cold water pipe and SWIR design challenges: VIV
  • 13-05 Cold water pipe and SWIR design challenges: Installation
  • 13-06 OTEC and DOW for offshore islands
  • 13-07 Themodynamic plant design for OTEC

 

Description: The maritime sector faces significant challenges as it transitions towards emission-reduced and emission-free operations. The major challenges are manifold, and the possible solutions are also numerous and varied addressing all life cycle aspect of maritime systems. New technologies for the application of alternative fuels such as energy converter and systems as well as advanced energy storage and refueling systems needs to be developed and deployed to achieve low- and zero-emission design as well as retrofit solutions. In this context, the availability of alternative fuels, logistics and port infrastructure are crucial aspects of an economic viability of the different solutions. In addition, adopting the new technologies may require changes in the operational profiles and transport concepts, maintenance procedures as well as crew training resulting from the lower energy densities of the alternative fuels, their volatility under environmental conditions, time-scales involved in handling them and the complexity of the energy systems. Operational efficiency is an important key aspect to minimise the effect of the lower energy density by improving the environmental performance in combination with intelligent energy management and decision support systems involving big data analytics, IoT, and AI systems. The Topic/Symposium Smart and Sustainable Maritime Systems intends to provide a platform for discussing the challenges and presenting potential solutions towards low- or zero-emission maritime operations.

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