Mr. R. J. "Bob" Brown has over forty six years of experience in the offshore pipeline industry. Among his many awards and recognitions, he has received the OTC Heritage, ASCE Stephen D. Bechtel, and "Pipeliner of the Year" Awards for his outstanding contributions to the oil and gas industry. Mr. Brown is currently Director of RJ Brown Deepwater, Inc., which is part of the Technip Offshore Group, who are playing an important role in the development of pipeline installations for offshore energy projects.
Michael Coyne has worked for Shell Oil Company for 29 years. He has worked mainly in the Transportation organization in the construction and operations sides of the pipeline business. Mike has also had two assignments in the E&P organization within Shell. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia in Mechanical Engineering and a graduate degree from the University of New Orleans also in Mechanical Engineering. Mike's current assignment is Manager for the Offshore Projects Group in Shell Pipe Line where he supervises a group of engineers working on an assortment of export pipeline related projects in the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana.
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.
Mr. Brian McShane has 19 years of experience in the engineering, construction and project management of subsea pipelines and field developments within the oil and gas industry. Currently, he is Vice President of INTECSEA's Marine Pipeline Systems department. Brian has a broad range of experience in subsea pipeline and riser consultancy and design including arctic, deepwater and high pressure/high temperature pipeline systems. Recent project experience has included leadership of INTECSEA teams for the Neptune Suez LNG Offloading port in Massachusetts and also BP's Mardi Gras large diameter deepwater transmission system in the Gulf of Mexico.
Professor Andrew Palmer is currently Keppel Chair Professor in the Centre for Offshore Research and Engineering of the Department of Civil Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He has divided his career equally between practice as a consulting engineer and university teaching. In 1985 he founded Andrew Palmer & Associates, a company of consulting engineers who specialize in marine pipelines. In 1996, Professor Palmer returned to research and university teaching as Research Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Cambridge University in the UK. He was a Visiting Professor in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University from 2002 to 2003. Professor Palmer is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and current chairman of the DNV Pipelines Committee. He has been engaged in marine pipeline engineering for 39 years and has taken a leading part in many pipeline projects in the North Sea, the Middle East, Canada and the Far East. Professor Palmer is the author of three books and more than 180 published papers on pipeline engineering, structures and geotechnics, including the textbook Subsea Pipeline Engineering, which was co-authored with Dr. Roger King.
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