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Lecturers

Erin 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.

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.

David Madden is Technical Operations Manager with DUCO, Inc. in Houston, where he oversees engineering activities relating to product design and manufacture on current projects and future prospects. He has more than 28 years’ experience in subsea umbilical project engineering, management and product design. He was involved in many of the early subsea developments in the North Sea, and he worked for more than three years at the Technip center for product development in Le Trait (France), where he was responsible for umbilical R&D activities within the group. David is a member of the Technip “group of experts” and currently participates in the API17E working group who are editing the joint API17E/ISO13628-5 Subsea Umbilical Specification for the industry.

Roy Shilling is Engineering Manager - HPHT Floating Systems, Risers and Topsides for BP. As the Delivery Manager for GoM HPHT Floating Systems, Risers and Topsides, Roy currently leads a team in BP’s Deepwater Development Business Unit charged with pre-qualifying and delivering HPHT technology to the next group of GoM projects. He has over 29 years of experience, including 15 years in drilling and completion and was ARCO’s riser technology leader, prior to becoming the Risers Systems Delivery Manager for the Horn Mountain Truss Spar in 2002, which at the time set a world record water depth for dry tree systems, at 5,500 feet.  Roy is a graduate of Vanderbilt University in Mechanical Engineering with a Master of Science from Texas A&M in Ocean Engineering.

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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