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AOG 2017 SPEAKER PRESENTATIONS

Day 1: Wednesday, 22 February

• Morgan Harland – The Silver Bucket
• Margarita Vargas – Current understanding of microbiologically influenced corrosion
• Dean Crouch – Oil & Gas Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM) – comparison of Australian and other first world oil & gas industry practices
• Richard Mills – Introducing Eelume A resident swimming robot for IMR
• Luke Pirie and Brett Phillips – Pipeline coating removal technologies
• Derek Scales – Predictive axial walking – an evidence based approach
• Ian Probyn –  The impact on Control Umbilicals from future subsea technologies
• Marius Martens – Combined state of the art inspection and analysis of flexible risers
• Brian Wardlaw –  Umbilical life extension assessment: methodology and tools
• Tze King Lim – Life extension of ageing platform well conductors
• Karl Woods – Integrity monitoring – New thinking in the approach to Subsea IMMR

Day 2: Thursday, 23 February

• Susan Gourvenec – End of life or afterlife? – Is it more rational to leave offshore infrastructure in situ after decommissioning?
• Terry Griffiths– Pipeline stability and behaviour on rocky seabeds – new research insights
• Emma Steer – Design for the relaxation of seabed preparation tolerances on the Malampaya Depletion Compression Platform
• Renmin Zhang – Review and feasibility assessment of the offshore ground improvement methods for subsea foundation design
• Gisle Nondal – GCE Subsea – strengthening collaboration, innovation and internationalisation of the subsea industry
• Zahid Hasan – Rethinking subsea boosting for optimized subsea field development
• Si Yeaw – Utilising lesson learnt from Aasgard Project for the development of new generation cooler
• Richard Moore – How the subCool hybrid concept can revolutionise subsea processing
• Simon Davies – Åsgard subsea compression – from ambition to action
• Mark Wagstaff – Long distance tieback opportunities in Australia, from the operator’s perspective
• Birger Velle Hanssen – Subsea multiphase compression technology – Enabling increased recovery in long tiebacks
• Salvatore Micali – Design, Operation and Learning from the World’s First Compression System Operating Subsea
• Owe Hagesaether – The success of the Norwegian subsea cluster model
• Jacques-Etienne Michael – Towards more efficient factories – combining new technologies, simplification, standardisation and industrialisation to drive down the costs of field development and operation

Day 3: Friday, 24 February

• Moya Crawford – Commerce with, and innovation and implementation of new methods and technology in the global Oil and Gas sector – is it possible for individuals and SMEs to dance with the proverbial 800lb gorilla?
• Peter Ryall – Lessons from decommissioning planning in the UKCS
• Tony Owen – Decommissioning in practice
• Jens Abrahamsen – Subsea integrity monitoring – Naxys Acoustic Leak Detector for major operator’s deep water project
• Khaled Aboud – Latest technology Subsea Precise measuring tool
• Scott Gray – Increased operational efficiency through 3D laser scanning techniques
• Cory Brooks – Driving operational efficiencies
• Ross Dinsdale – Monitoring operational discharges using autonomous underwater glider technology
• Sudhir Pai – Managing risk around offshore installations during exploration activities using autonomous marine vehicles