The 26th International Offshore Crane and Lifting Conference 2023

Monday 5^th June

Tuesday 6^th June

08:00 Registration / Coffee / Exhibition

Chairman – Jan Ketil Moberg, Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), NO

09.00 Welcoming Remarks
Jan Ketil Moberg, Head of Logistics and Emergency Preparedness, Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), NO

09.10 Opening Address
Theodor Kockelkoren, Inspector General of Mines, State Supervision of Mines, NL

News from authorities

 09.30 News from Authorities
Jan Ketil Moberg, Head of Logistics and Emergency Preparedness, Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), NO, Colin Martin, Specialist Mechanical Engineer, HSE, UK and Arnold de Groot, Inspector Operations, State Supervision of Mines, NL

09.50 OMHEC update
Bjarte Rødne, Principal Engineer Logistics & Emergency Preparedness, Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), NO

10.00 Coffee Break/Exhibition

Chairman – Maro Hartmann, Lloyd’s Register EMEA, D

Sharing best practices

10.30 Innovations at Ampelmann Operations

• Latest design practices and new technologies
• Safety implementation in design

Lisanne van Veen, Senior structural engineer and Elsy Saloumi, Senior structural engineer, Ampelmann Operations, NL

11.00 Maintenance and inspection of lifting equipment

• Interpretation of rules and regulations (use of software)
• Challenges and advantages with regards to CBM and RCM implementation
• Integrity management case: Fatigue calculation.

Mats Myklebust, Discipline Lead – Drilling equipment, Odfjell Technology AS, NO

11.30 HISC Project Ivar Aasen

• Securing of subsea clamps keeping the spool/riser and spool/pipeline together on pressurized pipelines
• Subsea clamps containing parts with materials identified susceptible to HISC
• Subsea lifting operations assisted by topside arrangements
• Risk evaluation of the total operation – Subsea and Topside

Jan Morten Krakeli, TFA Crane & Lifting, Aker BP, NO

12.00 Short Information from sponsors

12.10 Lunch and Exhibition

13.00 Experience with lifetime extension of Jotun FPSO with regards to cranes and material handling
Kato Øvestad, Vår Energi, NO

13.35 Increased safety and workability by using motion compensation for offshore lifting

• almost 10 years of motion compensated lifts, Kroonborg a case study
• increasing the lifting capacity of existing assets by lowering the seastate

Elvira Jansen, Business Developer, Barge Master, NL

14.05   Coffee Break/Exhibition

Chairman –  Robert Oftedal, DNV, NO

Learning from accidents and incidents

14.20 A deeper investigation into the Helder platform crane incident and Multi role crane operatorship from a crane operator perspective

• Assessing chain root causes instead of the internal root causes only
• Human factor inclusion into incident investigations
• Offshore crane operations from an offshore perspective
• The intricacies of being crane operator next to another role on board

Emanuele Gemelli, HSEQ Manager and Peter de Boer, Offshore Installation Manager, Petrogas E&P LLC, NL

New Technology

15.00 Qualification of technology and the road to remote operated cranes

• Lessons learned from Johan Sverdrup cranes in operation
• New type of Jib crane – history behind
• Technical description
• Qualification of Jib crane
• Remote operation

Cyrielle Gorini Gonçalves, Sales & Application Engineer, Palfinger Marine Norway AS, NO

 15.30 Changing load handling at sea with a new electric crane concept

• Step stones into a new product
• Accurate 3D control with a simple crane design
• Our drive towards fully electric solutions

16.00 Coffee Break/Exhibition

16.15 Challenges to offshore cranes caused by long unmanned periods on offshore platforms

• Advantages for operator to extend unmanned periods
• Examples of typical damages due to long stand still periods
• Possible solutions to increase reliably and decrease the risk of damage
• Prerequisites for the platform design

Marc Findeisen, Head of  Customer Service, Liebherr-MCCtec Rostock GmbH, D

Standards and guidelines

16.45 NORSOK Lifting standards
Tom Hjelmtveit, Leading Advisor – Crane and Lifting Operations, Equinor, NO

17.00 Interpretation of Effective Significant Wave Height (H_{1/3 Eff}) In EN 13852. Is there a need for a new, detailed H_{1/3 Eff} standard?

• Requirements for measurements and accuracy of Significant Wave Height (H_1/3) or (H_s)
• Essentials for presentation of H_{1/3 Eff} data allowed to be used for off-board lifting.
• DMM – an approved H_{1/3 Eff} method by WGP 5 since 2007
• H_{1/3 Eff} compared to H_1/3
• Need for a new standard with data validation of Deck Motion Monitoring systems?

Johnny Rabben, Chairman, ShoreConnection International AS, NO

17.30 End of Day 1

18.15 Bus to Stavanger

19.00 – Boat trip to – Flor & Fjære – Social event – Conference dinner

24.00 – Bus from Stavanger to the hotel

 

Wednesday 7th June

08.20 Welcome day 2
Jan Ketil Moberg, Head of Logistics and Emergency Preparedness, Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), NO

Chairman – Ben Finlay, Woodside Energy LTD, AU

News from authorities

08.30 Incidents and accidents connected to lifting operations and focus areas
Percy Dhanbhoora, A/g Manager Assessment & Inspection – Platforms, Pipelines & Diving, NOPSEMA

Lifting operations

09.00 Control of crane loads during deployment and / or recovery to vessel deck using Load Control Bumper (LCB) system

• System to control crane loads during lift in air to increase safety of personnel and reduce risk for material damage
• Improved control of crane load during deployment and / or recovery also allow for installation in higher seastate

Martin Ahlbäck, Subject Matter Expert – Entity Risk Manager, TechnipFMC, NO

09.30 Coffee Break/Exhibition

10.00 Lifting Operations – Innovative Design & Techniques

• Design of lifting frame for installation and recovery of subsea structures without use of ROV for connection and disconnection of lifting frame with subsea structure
• Design of frame for lifting & transportation of reels using SPMTs (Self-Propelled Modular Transporter)
• Spool bundles lifting operation and design of innovative techniques to facilitate this complex lifting operation

Amol Gade, Lead -Structural Department and Romain Fouchard, Senior Installation Engineer, OceanInstaller, NO

Inspection and Maintenance

10.30 LR’s Journey through development of remote inspection

• Early days (proof of concept)
• Challenges during application
• Current established practice (guidance documents and certifications schemes)
• What the future holds!! (AI and Autonomous UAV systems)

Peter Amin, Senior NDE Specialist, Lloyd’s Register EMEA, UK

11.00 Data driven verification model for WTI – Heavy Lift Cranes

• A data driven RBI solution based on a digital twin concept to optimize inspection scope for structure & machinery
• Efficient inspection/remote survey and verification through in-operation condition monitoring, operational and maintenance data mining

Aldo Matteucci, Business Development Manager Drilling Systems and Lifting Appliances, DNV, NO

11.30 Lunch and Exhibition

Chairman – Trond Møller, EnerMech, NO

Ropes and Lifting Equipment

12.30 Efficient wire ropes solutions for renewables applications

• Challenges for wire ropes usage in the marine environment
• Wire rope requirements – performance and durability
• Lubricant retention system – concept and practical experience

Laura Lombardi, Managing Director, Usha Martin Italia, IT

12.50 New numerical approach in the wire rope design

• Field experiences on large ropes for heavy duty application
• How to improve a rope design without compromising time and costs
• the use of a new sophisticated numerical simulator
• Laboratory tests as prove of the concept

Maurizio Meleddu, Head of R&D Teufelberger-Redaelli, IT

13.10 Wires ropes and the transition to renewable energies – applications, challenges and solutions

• Wire rope requirements for Renewables, compared to traditional Oil & Gas applications
• Challenges in use for steel wire ropes during renewable energy installations
• The need for application specific ropes, rope monitoring and lifetime prediction technologies

Dr. Christoph Ruffing, Technical Lead O&G / Energy, Bridon-Bekaert Ropes Group, UK

13.30 Coffee Break/Exhibition

 13.45 The world’s first certified subsea AHC fiber rope crane – Overcoming the challenges while assuring performance

• Optimal design by combining winch, fiber, rope and crane technology
• Rigorous certification to minimize risks and assure performance
• Substantiating performance criteria in the absence of a prescriptive “rules-based” approach

Scott Garriot, Project Engineer, MacGregor, N and Sam Bull, Consultant, Parkburn Precision Handling Systems, UK and Jorn Boesten, Global Segment Manager Offshore Energy & Maritime, Avient Protective Materials, NL

Renewable

14.15 Offshore wind regulations status Norway
Hilda Kjeldstad, Head of regulatory development, Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), NO

14.35   Coffee Break/Exhibition

14.50 Hywind Tampen – Installation of the world’s largest offshore floating wind park
Arthur Skartveit, Marine Operations manager Hywind Tampen, Equinor, NO

15.20 Sustainable?

• Introduction to TenneT
• Offshore future
• Inspectors – Lack of

Ian Richard Brown, Technical Specialist – Discipline Engineering, TenneT Offshore GmbH, D

15.50 Closing/Adjourn by
Jan Ketil Moberg, Head of Logistics and Emergency Preparedness, Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), NO

16.00 End of the conference

 

The Venue

The 26th International Offshore Crane & Lifting Conference will be held at the Clarion Hotel Air Stavanger. The hotel is located in the immediate vicinity of the airport, Sola/Stavanger.

• Phone: +47 51 71 85 00
• E-mail cl.air@choice.no
• Utsolaarmen 16
• 4055 Sola , Norway

More information on the hotels website

Hotel

To be booked by the individual participant.

We have reserved a number of rooms at Clarion Hotel Air Stavanger. Single rooms (bed and breakfast) are NOK 1545 per night.  The hotel rooms can be booked by phone +4751718503 or send a mail to cl.air@choice.no, please specify code GR007638 when booking. The rooms are held until 03.05.23.

 

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