Room: 5-314
Speaker Name:
Charles N. (“Nick”) White
Affiliation:
Fellow (IMarEST & SNAME) and certified Lead Practitioner of the Society of Decision Professionals
Abstract:
This talk will go deeply into the project to design and install the world’s deepest and very unique oil production tension-leg platforms. Four TLP buoys were conceived by Petrobras, engineered by INTECSEA, and built/installed by Subsea7 in waters over 2,000m deep. The speaker, Chuck White (INTECSEA’s Lead Engineer for Detailed Design & Engineering), will use a version of Subsea7’s amazing presentation to cover some of the great challenges and successes of the project. Then, he will briefly introduce the game-changing technology invented by Frontier Deepwater that he will be presenting to judges at SPE’s ATCE Start-Up Village competition in New Orleans on September 24th.
Biography:
Charles, Maringineering’s Senior Advisor since 2016, is co-founder of both Frontier Deepwater Appraisal Solutions LLC and ezNG Solutions LLC. He is a Naval Architect (UMich’75) with a Mechanical Engineering Masters (UH’83) who served as SNAME’s regional chairman. He worked for major oil companies for over 20yrs as a project manager and deepwater technology leader. Since 2000, he has worked primarily on deepwater and natural gas industry projects and technology development. In 2010, Charles managed creation of the Compliance Division within West Engineering, co-developing tools and providing certification for deepwater MODUs enabling drilling operations to restart in the US Gulf of Mexico after the Macondo disaster/moratorium. Before joining Poten & Partners (the world’s largest LNG consultancy) as a Senior Advisor in 2014, he served as Lead Engineer for detail design of the Petrobras / Subsea7 tension-leg buoys installed in >2000m WD offshore Brazil and as Global Director of Enhanced Field Development Services for Worley (INTECSEA). He has led several large joint industry projects as well as the API global task forces in writing the FPS and riser design RPs. He co-chaired creation of the first probabilistic riser design code and helped ABS, DNV, and BV write codes for shipping pressurized gas cargos. He has written many technical papers and has been awarded numerous US & international patents.