Pipeline Engineering Courses - Rio de JaneiroPatrick 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. Carlos Lemos is a Naval Architect holding Masters and Doctorate Degrees in Ocean Engineering, with a major in Subsea Engineering, from COPPE at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ. He has 20 years of experience working with flexible pipes at Petrobras’ Research and Development Center (CENPES) designing flexible risers systems for floating production systems and developing technical specifications for design and testing. He is the Principal Engineer of the Subsea Umbilical Riser and Flowline group within the Subsea Technology Group at CENPES. Since 2003 he has also been part-time professor in Technical School of Rio de Janeiro, FAETEC, in Ship Structure. He is also visiting professor at COPPETEC (Coordenação de Projetos, Pesquisas e Estudos Tecnológicos) and FUNCEFET (Fundação de Apoio Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica).
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.Roland Palmer-Jones is a consultant in the Newcastle office of Penspen Integrity. He has 22 years' experience in the oil and gas industry and has an excellent understanding of pipeline integrity issues, having worked on many diverse pipeline-integrity-related projects for onshore and offshore oil and gas pipelines around the world. These have included general integrity reviews, thermal buckling analyses, pipeline life assessment based on internal inspection results, detailed stress analyses of pipeline construction defects, assessment of the suitability of repairs for the repair of internal corrosion, reviewing inspection and maintenance procedures for operating pipelines beyond code limits, and auditing the design and operation of high pressure gas transmission pipelines.
Professor Phil Hopkins has more than 26 years’ experience in pipeline engineering, and is Technical Director with Penspen Integrity and Visiting Professor of Engineering at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He has worked with most of the major oil and gas companies and pipeline companies around the world, providing consultancy on management, business, design, maintenance, inspection, risk analysis and safety, and failure investigations. He is the past-chairman of the Executive Committee of the ASME Pipeline Systems Division and has served on many other professional committees, including the British Standards Institution, European Pipeline Research Group, the American Gas Association’s Pipeline Research Committee, and the DNV Pipeline Committee. More than 1700 engineers and technical personnel around the world have attended his Pipeline Defect Assessment and Pipeline Integrity-related courses.
Dr. Roger King has over 30 years' experience of corrosion in the oil, gas, civil, and nuclear industries. Dr King ran the premier microbiological corrosion group at UMIST for seven years; the group accumulated over 150 man-years of research into corrosion by micro-organisms. The group published over 100 theses, dissertations and papers on bacterial corrosion and its prevention and treatment. He also has specialist knowledge of sweet and sour corrosion and its prevention by chemical inhibition, monitoring of corrosion and the design of efficient cathodic-protection systems for flowlines, structures, and seabed installations. He has been an independent consultant since September, 1989, and prior to this was a founder member of the Corrosion and Protection Centre Industrial Service (CAPCIS) at the University of Manchester, UK.
Bill Bruce is director of welding technology with DNV Columbus (formerly CC Technologies). Prior to joining CCT, he was a technology leader at Edison Welding Institute and a senior engineer at Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Co. He is a member of the American Petroleum Institute API 1104 Committee and is the chairman of the Maintenance Welding Subcommittee.
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