Industry News - OTC.05 Event News - OTC honors Vandiver and spars teamOTC honors Vandiver and spars team
from: Offshore Engineer
Monday, May 02, 2005
THIS YEAR'S OTC DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT
Awards goes to leading academic and structural
dynamics consultant Professor J Kim Vandiver,
for his pioneering work in the area of flowinduced
vibration, and to the teaming of
operator Kerr-McGee and contractor Technip,
for their success in delivering three generations
of Gulf of
Mexico spar floating
production systems in
nine year.
Vandiver is professor of
mechanical and ocean
engineering and dean of
undergraduate research
at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. A
member of MIT's ocean
engineering faculty
since 1975, Vandiver is
no stranger to OTCrelated
awards. He was the first recipient of the
prestigious Arthur Lubinski prize for the best
mechanical engineering paper back in 1984.
The Kerr-McGee/Technip teaming's third-generation
cell spar at Red Hawk,
following on from their earlier innovative work
on the Neptune and Gunnison spars, is
recognized as having significantly reduced the
economic industry reserve threshold for
standalone deepwater field developments.
The award winners' achievements will be
acknowledged in a special multi-media tribute
during tomorrow's Awards Luncheon. OE
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