Preliminary Conference Program
7:00 – 8:00 a.m. REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
Sponsored by:FMC Technologies
8:00 – 8:15 a.m. WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS
Eldon Ball – PennWell Corporation
8:15 – 9:45 a.m. SESSION 1 & LIVE WEBCAST
8:15 – 8:45 a.m. Design Options of a Top Tensioned Riser for xHPHT Development in Ultra-Deepwater
Speaker and Co-author: Lixin Xu – Technip
Co-author: Paul Stanton – Technip
Deepwater XHPHT development has led to great opportunities as well as significant challenges for dry tree riser applications. The paper provides various options for riser weight reduction, including use of lightweight and high strength materials, and design optimization using advanced technologies.
8:45 – 9:15 a.m. Well Systems Centered DryTree Semisubmersible FPU
Speaker: Dr. Chunfa Wu – WorleyParsons Sea
Co-authors: Pieter Wybro and Bob Kipp - WorleyParsons Sea

The use of an innovative riser tensioner system enables deep draft semisubmersibles be used as a drytree floating production platform with direct vertical assess risers.
9:15 – 9:45 a.m.Comparison of Measured & Predicted Fatigue Damage Results from a North Sea Completion/Workover Riser Management System
Speaker: Donogh Lang – MCS
Co-authors: Kieran Kavanagh and Gavin Rogers – MCS
This paper presents a novel approach to monitoring fatigue damage in open sea completion/workover risers that combines riser instrumentation mounted on the upper and lower sections of the riser with a state-of-the-art numerical (finite element) model of the riser system.
9:45 – 10:00 a.m. COFFEE BREAK
Sponsored by: FloaTEC
10:00 – 11:30 a.m. SESSION 2 & LIVE WEBCAST

An MMS Perspective on Deepwater Risers
Speaker: Mike Conner –MMS

The paper will discuss a re-visit by MMS on the subject of dual versus single bore risers in deepwater.

A Comparative Risk Analysis of a Composite & Steel Production Riser
Dr. E.G. (Skip) Ward – OTRC
Co-authors: Prof. O.A. Ochoa & Won Kim - M.E. Department Texas A&M University
Prof. Robert Gilbert & Anubhav Jain - C.E. Dept. University of Texas
Charles Miller - Stress Engineering Services
Early Denison - Consultant

Risks for a composite production riser and a steel production riser with the same functional requirements and service lives for a deepwater Gulf of Mexico application were compared to demonstrate the relative safety of the composite and steel risers.
Drytree Semisubmersible Technology
Speaker: John Murray – FloaTEC

The drytree semisubmersible offers significant advantages over existing deepwater floaters by mitigating risks in delivery and improved performance in drilling and production operations
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. LUNCH
Sponsored by: VetcoGray
12:30 – 2:00 p.m. SESSION 3 (CLOSED SESSION)
12:30 – 1:00 p.m. High Pressure High Temperature Dry Tree Riser Technology Development for the next Generation Developments
Speaker: Roy Shilling - BP

1:00 – 1:30 p.m. Aluminum Alloys for Offshore Oil & Gas Industry: Prospects & Development
Speaker: Mikhail Gelfgat: Aquatic Company
Co-authors: Vadim Tikhonov and Boris Vygodskyi – Aquatic Company
Valeryi Chizhikov – Scientific & Technology Center “Aluminum Processing”
Alex Adelman – DR&D
Aluminum alloys application in offshore structures would provide significant weight savings, making it possible to increase deck load capacity and optimize equipment packages, including but not limited to risers, aircans and pressure vessels to reach greater depths.
1:30 – 2:00 p.m. Retrofittable Stress Measurement Instruments for Deepwater Risers and Flowlines
Speaker: Damon RobertsInsensys Oil & Gas Ltd.

Growth in the need for integrity management of deepwater assets has stimulated new approaches to integrity monitoring to be adopted by the industry. Subsea fibre optic stress sensors have been widely deployed on both shallow water and deepwater risers due to their high sensitivity, reliable operation and ease of installation.

2:00 – 2:15 p.m. COFFEE BREAK
Sponsored by: FloaTEC

2:15 – 3:45 p.m. SESSION 4 (CLOSED SESSION)
2:15 – 2:45 p.m. Deepwater Riser Management by Integrating Modeling & Monitoring for Safety Control
Paal Tuset – FORCE Technology
Co-authors: Torbjorn Sotberg and Espen Gilbu - FORCE Technology

The presentation describes how an integration of modeling and monitoring into a common framework can improve the prediction of the physical behavior of a riser increasing reliability and safe operation.


2:45 – 3:15 p.m. Assessing the Use of High-Strength Composite Materials in Repairing Offshore Risers
Speaker & author: Chris Alexander – Stress Engineering Services
This paper provides an overview of a program conducted to evaluate the use of composite materials in reinforcing offshore risers using numerical simulation methods combined with full-scale testing that integrated internal pressure, tension and bending loads.
3:15 – 3:45 p.m. Riser Clashing Video
Bob Sokoll – ConocoPhillips

3:45 – 4:00 p.m. CLOSING REMARKS
Eldon Ball – PennWell Corporation
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. NETWORKING RECEPTION
Sponsored by: Cameron