OTC14: McDermott to present at East Africa breakfast

McDermott International, Inc. announced today that Scott Munro, VP & general manager, North Sea and Africa, will speak at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Industry Briefing on “Offshore and Subsea Solutions in Frontier Regions”, on 8 May.

The briefing, organized by OTC and the US Department of Commerce, will cover Mozambique, Tanzania, and Kenya’s offshore developments and provide a discussion on current and upcoming commercial opportunities for trade and investment. Munro (pictured) will speak on working in frontier oil and gas regions, which include East Africa.

Munro said, “Five years ago, conversations on oil and gas development did not include East Africa. Today, it is a frontier region and a growing focus of many operations.”

Munro is responsible for the growth and delivery of McDermott’s business in Africa.  He joined McDermott in January 2014 and has extensive experience in the oil and gas, working in a variety of operational and project management roles in the UK, USA, Canada, Brazil and France.

In addition, a subsea engineer with the company will present a paper titled ‘Installability of Umbilicals’ on the same day.

The paper will be presented by McDermott’s Senior Principal Subsea Engineer, Dr. Pandia Raj Ramar, and was co-written by  Ramar, Miguel Pereira and Mark Dixon. It is one of a set of papers to be delivered in the OTC session on ‘Advances in Subsea Umbilicals.’

“The paper presents a comprehensive method to carry out detailed installability assessment of umbilicals,” said Ramar said. “This helps to define safe installation boundaries such as limiting tension and bending, along with tensioner crush operating loads (operational and emergency) fully accounting for the condition of all internal components within the umbilical. This validated method has been applied to many deepwater umbilicals in West Africa, Gulf of Mexico and Brazil, and provides certainty for all umbilical installations.”