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Technical Programme
Wednesday 29th March 2006
Keynote Address: Session 1 Trends in Oilfield Engineering
with Polymers
09.30 Meeting the increased demands of offshore developments
Steve Groves, BP Exploration, UK
Session 2 Polymer Performance: Chemical Resistance
of Elastomers and Thermoplastics
10.00 Evaluating the retention of viscoelastic properties
for extreme and long term service
Danny Hertz III, Seals Eastern, Inc., USA
10.30 Compatibility between elastomers and oilfield chemicals
on the Kristin subsea wellhead structure
Håkon Nygård, Steinar Mollan & Dr Bjørn
Melve, Statoil ASA, Norway
11.00 COFFEE
11.00 Perfluoroether elastomer for oilfield engineering
Hidenori Koshikawa, Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd, Japan
11.30 Oilfield polymers and hydrogen sulphide
Dr Barry Thomson, MERL, UK
12.00 Seal selection for acid gas injection using an accelerated
testing program
Dr Philip Abrams, Randall Harris, Tim Martin, ExxonMobil,
USA, & Dr. Barry Thomson, MERL, UK
12.30 PPS for use in high temperature oil and gas sour fluid
handling
Hansel Ramathal & Tom Baus, Ticona Polymers, Inc.,
USA, & Dirk Raudies, Ticona GmbH, Germany
13.00 LUNCH
Session 3 Polymer Permeability and Resistance To
Rapid Gas Decompression Events
14.30 Transport properties of gas mixtures in polymers: Measurement
method, experimental data obtained on thermoplastics
Bruno Flaconnèche, Dr Marie-Hélène
Klopffer, Institut Français du Pétrole, &
Dr Carol Taravel-Condat, TECHNIP-Flexifrance, France
15.00 Novel gas detection method for permeability measurement
Zoltán Filus1, Tibor Ajtai1, Dr Zoltán Bozóki2,
Gábor Pap3, Prof Gábor Szabó1, Imre Domonkos4,
Dr Tibor Nagy4, Dr Tamás Katona4, 1University of Szeged,
2Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 3HILASE Ltd., 4Phoenix Rubber
Ltd, Hungary
15.30 Specification of elastomeric materials for rapid gas
decompression applications
Dr Chris Newlands, Kevin Monaghan & Dr Emily Ho, BHR
Group Ltd, UK
16.00 COFFEE
16.30 Development of a test and failure analysis methodology
for elastomeric seals exposed to explosive decompression
Dr Zoltan Major2, Klaus Lederer1, Manfred Moitzi3, Mario
Mitterhuber3, Dr Thomas. Schwarz3 and Prof Reinhold Lang1,2,
1Polymer Competence Center Leoben GmbH, 2University of Leoben,
3ECONOMOS Austria GmbH, Austria
Session 4 Insulation for Deep Water Applications
17.00 Multilayer insulation systems: Study of the thermomechanical
behaviour of industrial prototypes for deep sea application
Nadège Bouchonneau1-2-3, Dominique Choqueuse1,
Dr Valérie Sauvant-Moynot 2, François Grosjean2,Prof
Dominique Perreux3, Dr Emmanuel Poncet3, 1IFREMER Brest, 2Institut
Français du Pétrole, 3Université de Franche
Comté, France
17.30 X-ray microtomography for a better understanding of
syntactic foam performance and limits in ultra deep water
Dr Valérie Sauvant-Moynot & Nelly Gimenez,
Institut Français du Pétrole, & Jérôme
Adrien & Eric Maire, Groupe d'Etude de Métallurgie
Physique et de Physique des Matériaux INSA Lyon, France
18.00 END OF DAY ONE
19.30 CONFERENCE DINNER
Thursday 30th March 2006
Session 5 Advances in Polymer Technology: New Materials
and Applications
09.00 Novel materials with improved performance for pipe and
wire and cable applications
Bilal Ghalaini, Simon Spence & Heinrich Maurer, DuPont
Int. SA, Switzerland
09.30 Next generation HNBR grades – new materials for
oilfield applications
John Dato, Billy Best & Dirk Achten, Lanxess Deutschland
GmbH, Germany
10.00 The role of base resistant fluoroelastomer technology
in oilfield seals
Steven Jagels, Solvay Solexis Inc., USA & Stefano
Arrigoni, Solvay Solexis SpA, Italy
10.30 COFFEE
11.00 Perfluoroether elastomers for oilfield engineering
Hidenori Koshikawa, Shin Etsu Chemical Company, Japan
11.30 Advanced polymer architecture: sealing solutions with
unmatched chemical and physical performance in oil and gas
applications
Robert Fuller, William Stahl, DuPont Performance Elastomers,
USA, & Maria Mayor Lopez, DuPont Performance Elastomers
- Europe
12.00 Flow improvements within oil pipelines
Matthew McDonnell, Copon Pipelinings, UK
12.30 LUNCH
Session 6 Advances in Component Design and Analysis:
Seals, Hose and Umbilicals
13.30 Use of analytic and finite element methods to evaluate
umbilical cable designs
Mark Coates & Dr Alan Friday, ERA Technology Ltd,
UK
14.00 Selection and design of resilient seals for oil and
gas applications
Francis Lebeau & Geert Danau, Saint-Gobain Performance
Plastics, Belgium
14.30 The challenges of designing high pressure hoses for
the oil and gas market
Graham Ford, Parker Hannifin GmbH, Germany
15.00 Fatigue-life prediction in offshore marine hoses
Dr Kambiez Zandiyeh, Dunlop Oil & Marine, UK
15.30 COFFEE
Session 7 Moorings
16.00 Socketing of polyester fibre ropes with epoxy resins
Prof Maria Madalena de Camargo Forte & Tiago de Medeiros
Schmidt, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, &
Alexandro Voronoff, PETROBRAS, Brazil
Session 8 Regulatory Case Studies
16.30 HSE guidelines and case studies for use of elastomers
offshore
Raman Patel, Health & Safety Executive, & Dr Bob
Campion, MERL, UK |
