Offshore Pipelines & Risers

Ola Borten Moe (born 6th of June 1976 in Trondheim) is a Norwegian farmer, politician (Sp) and petroleum investor. He is the 1st Vice Chairman for the Center Party, but since spring 2015 he has also been one of four founders of the newly founded petroleum company OKEA, who later the same year bought the Yme field.
Borten Moe was the Minister of Petroleum and Energy from 2011 to 2013.
Borten Moe was in 2013 awarded NPF-Price, which is awarded annually to a person (or institution) whose work and/or commitment has helped elucidate important industry issues on the national agenda.

Tomas graduated in 2008 from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm with a M.Sc in Vehicle Engineering with focus on light-weight structures. He has since then pursued a career as a pipeline engineer, starting to build his experience with design house engineering and later moving into roles on the operator side. Tomas is currently a Senior Pipeline Engineer with AS Norske Shell and he is the TA2 for the project organization in Norway.

Arne Skeie have worked 16 years in Subsea 7. Arne have been in the pipeline discipline and in the structural discipline. The last 7 years he has been working as Engineering Manager on various projects, tenders and studies. He is now working as Engineering Manager for the Subsea Alliance (Aker BP, Aker Solutions and Subsea 7) on the Ærfugl project.

Arne graduated from Høgskolen i Stavanger with Master degree in material technology in 1999. He worked as production manager in a factory producing concrete pipes before joining Subsea 7 in 2002.

Senior Principal Engineer in DNV GL with focus on pipeline operation. PM for the Norwegian part of the CO2SafeArrest JIP funded by Climit and Commonwealth in Australia.

Various roles as project manager, business development leader and head of section. Experience from general industry, process industry and oil and gas industry, research and development.
The activities have involved RBI-analyses, pipeline integrity management (PIM) projects, Life Extension & due diligence projects, verification projects, fabrication control, contact with authorities, hands on experience through field inspection, laboratory work and experiments.

Project manager for various JIP-projects as DNVGL-RP-O101 'Technical documentation for subsea projects' (2016), DNV RP-F116 'Submarine Pipeline System Integrity Management' (2009) covering the development of a recommended practice for integrity management of offshore pipelines. Responsible for the completion of the DNV GL RP-0002 on Integrity Management of Subsea Production Systems.

23 years’ experience from oil and gas related Subsea development projects, including early phases, FEED phases and execution phases of offshore subsea development projects. Worked with improvement projects across the Statoil organization. Experience as leader both from line organization and project organization. Currently working as Pipeline Manager on the Northern Lights project.

Jan Rytter is the R&D director for Development and Qualification within NOV Flexibles, part of NOV Subsea Production Solutions business unit. Jan has worked with development, testing and qualification of flexible pipes for 20 years. Jan holds a MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Aalborg university in Denmark.

Mr. Timmermans holds engineering degrees from MIT and Stanford University. He started his career in the Offshore Pipelines group of Exxon Production Research Company in the early 1990’s and has remained active in the offshore pipelines industry ever since. After 8 years working in Norway on the Esso Balder, Jotun, Ringhorne and Ringhorne Jurassic projects, he joined INTECSEA (then INTEC Engineering) in the Netherlands in 2004 as a Project Manager.
During his time with INTECSEA he has been involved in numerous projects ranging from conventional offshore pipelines to suspended plastic pipelines for freshwater transport to arctic and deepwater pipelines. Since mid-2006 he has held the position of Engineering Manager.

Simon holds a position With TechnipFMC as a R&D Engineer at Innovation and Technology Center (ITC). Previous roles includes R&D Project Manager in Product Engineering Division With TechnipFMC, Research Engineer in Naval Architecture and Offshore at ENSTA Bretagn and Research engineer & PhD in fluid dynamic as CNRS. He is a Post-doctoral research fellow in Naval and Offshore architecture at ENSTA Bretagne, has a PhD (Highest Hons.) in fluid mechanics, energy, thermic, combustion, Acoustic and has a Master Science degree in Ocean Sciences, Environment, System.

After his study at Delft University of Technology he worked for more than 30 years with Heerema Marine Contractors in several management positions. Latest was VP Innovation and Business Development Manager Brazil.
Since 2016, Jan works for Airborne, first as Business Development Manager and later as Senior Advisor.

Work Experience:
2005 - present: Statoil/ Equinor:
Johan Castberg (2017 - ): Engineering manager, company representative for FEED, detail design and marine warranty surveyor contracts.
Aasta Hansteen (2014 – 2016): Structural Engineer, outfitting, substructure (Korea).
Johan Sverdrup (2012 – 2014): Pipeline manager for export pipelines, company representative for concept engineering contract.
Shtokman (2008 – 2012): PLEM Engineer (UK, France).
Statfjord C – Vigdis F water injection flowline (2005 – 2008: Company representative for concept design, FEED, detail engineering, pipeline installation, tie-in and marine warranty surveyor contracts.
Norne Satellites (2005): Pipeline engineer.
2001 - 2005: ABB Offshore Systems/GE Vetco - Senior Engineer:
1998 – 2001: ABB Power Technology - Mechanical engineer

In 1987 Joachim Banse started at Butting in the department for individual fabrication and assembly. After his studies in mechanical engineering in 1997, he became part of the sales department for "Oil and Gas Upstream" and since 2008 responsible for the technical project management and follow-up development of mechanically lined and metallurgically clad pipes.

Geir Åge Nesse have over 10 years experience in the oil & gas business, started as Project Engineer for DeepOcean and is now Project Manager for the same firm. Mr. Nesse have wide experience in DeepOceans’ service lines including; IMR, Decommissioning, Construction and SURF. Prior to working as Project Manager Mr. Nesse acted as Tender Manager.

Decao has held the following positions:
2018.06 – present, Senior Research Scientist, SINTEF Ocean, Dept. of Energy and Transport
2017 – 2018.06 Research Scientist, SINTEF Ocean, Dept. of Energy and Transport 2017 Research Scientist, SINTEF Ocean, Dept. of Ocean Engineering
2016 – 2017 Research Scientist, MARINTEK, Dept. of Oil and Gas 2011 – 2016 Research Scientist, MARINTEK, Dept. of Offshore hydrodynamics

His educational background includes:
2013 - PhD, Marine Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
2008 - MSc, Design and Construction of Naval Architecture and Ocean Structure, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
2005 - BSc, Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China

Leif Collberg graduated with a M.Sc. in applied physics from Sweden in 1982 and has been working in DNV GL since then. After some years with offshore structures he joined the pipeline group in 1993. He has been a main contributor to all subsequent DNV pipeline standards and participated in most DNV GL pipeline R&D projects, including SUPERB, Hotpipe, Installation criteria, Fracture Control, Clad pipes

John Picksley is a chartered engineer with over 20 years industry experience in riser system engineering, and is based in Aberdeen with Wood. He has provided specialist input to a broad range of global riser system developments, across the full project life cycle. In addition, Mr Picksley is a senior contributor to several Joint Industry Projects focussed on flexible pipe integrity, and is a contributor to the University of Aberdeen masters degree in Subsea Engineering

Author of more than 200 papers in offshore and cross country pipeline technology. He recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Offshore Pipeline Technology,
in appreciation of outstanding contribution to offshore pipeline industry through leadership, innovation and inspiration to others.

Master Degree. in Aeronautical Engineering at University of Pisa (Italy). Joined Snamprogetti in 1980 as junior analyst dedicated to the mathematical modelling of soil-structure-fluid interaction for submarine pipelines, offshore structures and floaters-offshore vessels. Responsible of Advanced Engineering Studies for the most challenging offshore pipelines projects undertaken in the Mediterranean and North Seas, including the Blue Stream pipeline across the Black Sea and the Sakhalin Pipelines, Phase 2. Responsible of corporate R & D and international JIR projects in offshore and land pipeline technology, particularly addressed to reliability based limit state design, then to the application of high grade steels in long distance, high capacity, high pressure gas pipelines crossing harsh environments. Director of Advanced Engineering Studies, R & D and complex cross-country and subsea pipeline projects in the Project Execution Center of Fano, Snamprogetti S.p.A. Joined Saipem in 2006, as responsible of Subsea and Pipelines Department, including engineering services on Environmental Engineering, Integrity Management, Umbilical-Riser-Flowline, Subsea Structures, Flow Assurance, Sealine Design, Loss and Prevention, Advanced Technologies Engineering Analysis, Materials. V. P., Advanced Engineering Services and Technology Innovation Projects.

Erling Østby is a Senior Principal Specialist at the DNV GL Materials Laboratory, Høvik, Norway. He holds a MSc. in mechanical engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, 1994, and a PhD in fracture mechanics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2002. He has been with DNV GL since 2013, and was with SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, Trondheim, Norway, for 11 years before that. From 2016 he also holds a position as adjunct professor in association with the CASA CRI at NTNU, Trondheim. He works with structural integrity and materials issues, with special focus towards pipeline applications, and has been involved in several projects developing new assessment procedures addressing different fracture failure modes in pipelines. He has co-authored more than 100 publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings.

Antoine Marret graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne (France) and a Master of Sciences in Offshore and Ocean Technology at Cranfield University (UK) in 2008.

He started his carrier at Technip France as mechanical engineer and has been involved in several R&D projects, including the development of the Electrically Trace Heated (ETH) Pipe-in-Pipe technology. After a couple of years, he has occupied the functions of Lead SURF Studies and R&D Project Manager.

In 2017, Antoine Marret relocated to TechnipFMC Norway to work on SURF Tenders and is now Lead Engineer on the FENJA project, in charge of the qualification and delivery of ETH packages.

Erik Levold is Specialist in Pipeline Technology at Equinor Research Centre, Trondheim, Norway. He holds a MSc. in structural engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, 1982, and a PhD in solid mechanics from the same university, 1990. He has been with Statoil (Equinor) since 1997, and was with Reinertsen Engineering, Trondheim, Norway, for 11 years and 4 years at the Norwegian Institute of Technology before that. At Reinertsen Engineering he was involved in several pipeline development projects from feasibility studies to detailed engineering. At Statoil (Equinor) his has worked with several R&D project related to pipeline technology.

Managing Director at Scanmudring. Former Operations Director X-Subsea and Operation Manager Reef Susea Dredging & Excavation. B.Sc. from University of Agder and Executive Education from BI.

Martin has worked in the oil and gas industry since 2007, mainly within the pipeline pigging industry. Post his graduation in 2009, he started working as a project engineer assessing and planning pipeline isolation works for TDW Offshore Services. During his time in TDW he held various roles, from technical sales support to managing the offshore project portfolio in Asia Pacific.

In 2015 he started working for Halfwave as a project manager, where he has managed several multi-diameter in-line inspection tool development projects. In his most recent role he manage the operations group.

Olivier has 20-year experience in Flexible Pipe technology. He has always worked in TechnipFMC in flexible pipe technology. He started with R&D subjects in Technip France R&D department, then worked as Lead Design Flexible engineer in Technip Norway for 4 years, Now he is working as development project manager for riser monitoring technologies mostly focused on optical fiber based solutions

• Education: Master Degree in Marine Engineering from Marine Tech at Bergen College and NTNU
• Started my career at Stolt Offshore in 2002 working with IMR and remote operations
• After a couple of years, the company changed name to Acergy and I moved on to working with flexibles and umbilicals.
• Since 2009 I’ve been Project Engineering Manager for SURF projects with Aasta Hansteen finishing this year as the highlight and last project in that position. In that same period the company changed name again after merging with Subsea 7.
• Currently I’m Project Manager on 3 projects, Snefrid Nord and Castberg Pipelines for Equinor and Garn west Riser Replacement for Shell

10 years of experience. M.Sc. Marine Constructions. Background from pipeline design and subsea hydraulics. Last 3 years in the Petroleum Safety Authority in the Structural Integrity department.

20 experience from oil & gas. Last 5 years in Petroleum Safety Authority in the structural integrity department. Focusing on subsea and pipelines.

Product Manager, Chartered Engineer and a Patented Inventor. 14 years of management and technical experience leading innovative research, new technology introduction (NTI) projects, and new product introduction (NPI) projects. Deep experience in Oil & Gas, Power Generation, Precision Engineering, and Environmental Control. Subject interests; advanced materials applications for extreme environments.