Enrique Banda is a Senior Specialist with MCS Kenny and has extensive experience in SCR design, drilling riser analysis, top tensioned riser analysis, and hybrid riser analysis. Key projects include Independence Hub SCR design, Perdido Riser Deisgn verification and Cascade-Chinook hybrid riser verification. Mr. Banda is currently a Riser Lead in the MCS Kenny Houston riser group.
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.
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 20 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.
Alan Whooley is a consultant with MCS Kenny with substantial experience in all areas of riser design. Since joining MCS Kenny more than 6 years ago he has been involved in a wide range of projects as PM and consultant. His focus areas within MCS Kenny have included flexible risers and umbilicals, drilling and top tensioned riser technology. Alan has worked closely with numerous riser vendors, drilling contractors and operators.
Alan Yu joined Vetco offshore in 1984 as a design engineer after obtained his MSME from Ohio University. He worked on wellhead equipment, hyadraulic connectors, TLP tendon and threaded connectors in Vetco Offshore's R&D group for over seven years He then joined the offshore production group as a project engineer. Alan worked on Shell Auger's tensioner system, Heidrun import oil and gas risers, Shell Mars and Ram Powell high-pressure drilling risers and production tensioners. Alan joined Technip organization in 1997 as lead engineer for the successful Hoover spar drilling riser and tensioner system. He was the project manager for the Holstein riser and well system project for the engineering and delivery of the 15 combo risers, tensioners, surface trees, and jumper systems. He is now the overall engineering manager for the first of its kind Nautilus Solwara 1 project for the engineering and delivery management of the riser and lift system for mining the subsea sulfide mines.
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