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LecturersErin Balch is a Senior Specialist at MCS Houston with broad engineering experience of floating production riser and mooring systems. She has considerable experience in the specification, design, verification, installation, and integrity management of floating production risers. She has worked extensively in flexible risers, umbilicals and drilling risers and has a keen understanding of the design, manufacturing and testing challenges associated with these risers. Before working for MCS, she gained valuable experience in the design of floating production mooring systems. Patrick Boster is President of RTI Energy Systems, a supplier of production riser systems and engineering solutions such as subsea tiebacks utilizing tapered stress joints of both steel and titanium. Prior to joining RTIES, Mr. Boster worked for ABB as manager of the Materials & Welding Group and then started his own company, Weld-Tech Engineering, supplying materials technology, manufacturing, welding and related services. Weld-Tech was acquired by RTI International Metals in 1998. Dr. Roger Burke, P.E., is lead of the top tensioned riser analysis group of the Riser Technology and Well Systems Department of Technip Offshore, Inc. Engineering. He has 14 years of experience in design and analysis of deepwater riser systems. He joined Technip Offshore in February 2000. Conor Galvin is an Engineering Team Leader with MCS with considerable experience in the design and analysis of steel risers, hybrid risers and flexible risers for production and offloading systems. Mr. Galvin has a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering form University College, Dublin, Ireland and is a Member of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland. Kieran Kavanagh is President of MCS Houston. He holds a Masters degree in Offshore Engineering from University College Cork, Ireland, and a degree in Economics from the London School of Economics. He has 18 years, experience in offshore engineering, specializing in the design and analysis of floating production steel and flexible risers and umbilicals. He has also been responsible for mooring system design, vessel motions analysis and steel structural design. John Picksley, Staff Consultant, MCS
Robert Sokoll has 29 years of industry experience. He is presently with ConocoPhillips, where he is responsible for the top tensioned riser systems on Jolliet and Magnolia in the Gulf of Mexico. He is also responsible for the mooring system and flexible flow line for the Conoco Venezuela CA FSO in the Gulf of Paria. He was lead mechanical engineer on the Heidrun TLP production, drilling and export riser systems, and then lead engineer for the drilling and production riser systems and rig design and integration. Robert has also worked as a drilling rig supervisor in the Gulf of Mexico, Dubai, Tunisia, Ecuador, Egypt, United Kingdom and Norway. Dr. Ruxin Song has more than 15 years working experience focusing on risers and pipelines. He has been the lead engineer for some large well-known riser and pipeline projects in North Sea , Gulf of Mexico and Offshore Brazil, including the EMDC Kizomba Tower riser, Statoil Gullfaks pipeline and riser bundles, BP Thunder Horse risers, Petrobras Roncador risers. Dr. Song has published 30 technical papers in international journals and conferences and been actively involved in design code development. He is a member of several international associations including ISOPE, MTS and IAOE. Currently Dr. Song is a Principal Associate in the Riser Technology Department of Technip Offshore, Inc., Houston. Dr. Paul N. Stanton is Vice President of the Riser Technology and Well Systems Department of Technip Offshore, Inc. He has 36 years of experience in deepwater floating drilling research and engineering, subsea production research, TLP and Spar well systems research and development, and riser engineering management. Paul is active in development of API and ISO standards for dynamic riser systems. Glenn Wald is a Senior Staff Mechanical Engineer, Shell Oil. He has 25 years experience in the industry. His primary area of expertise is design, procurement and installation of Spar and TLP riser systems. This includes concept evaluation, system design, component design, interface management, and riser component manufacturing.
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