Space For Subsea

“Space for Subsea” Symposium Organized by KIVI and TUDelft (DOT)

Manless, timeless and flawless: the Space for Subsea Symposium on Wednesday May the 18^th in theater De Veste in Delft was a great success attended by almost 300 professionals from the offshore and aerospace industry, students and academia who made this a truly unique event. This bi-annual event was organized by the Offshore department of the royal institute of engineers or KIVI in Dutch, in cooperation with Martec, the Maritime department and DOT, the offshore students department of TU Delft.

The morning started with masterclasses from several speakers of Shell, RHEA, Fugro and IHC, in which a broad range of subjects covering ROV’s to systems engineering in aerospace were elaborated upon. These masterclasses which were dedicated to the students in the audience, functioned as brain teasers for the programme after lunch, which was kicked off by James Haug, VP Quality and Continuous Innovation at Shell. In his keynote speech he discussed what the offshore industry can learn from the aerospace industry (and vice-versa), and to always consider the why in everything you do. This was followed up by a speech of Heerema and Airbus on simulating in offshore and aerospace environments in order to be able to practice safety in a hostile environment and test hardware before implementation.

The second part of the afternoon consisted of lectures provided by Huisman and ESA on robotics in offshore drilling and ATV docking. After a short coffee break this was followed by the final speeches of the day by Shell and TNO on the value of robotics from a Shell perspective and the usage of satellite technology as a tool to understand subsurface formations by means of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) or using small aberrations of Earth’s gravity field (GOCE).

In the final event of the day, just before the start of Space Drinks, the KIVI award for best graduate was presented by Bart Boon. From a total of five nominees, the award went to Jan-Willem van Dongen with his thesis called “Swab pressure due to cone pop-out”, which he performed at Shell, a phenomenon of sudden release of energy in the form of tubular expansion during mono-diameter well drilling. Along with the price money of €2.000, Jan-Willem had the honor of giving his thesis presentation one last time to a room full of eager listeners. His thesis was guided by Professor Andrei Metrikine, who had the honor of receiving the prize of best Offshore Engineering Professor for the fourth time consecutively.

The organizing board would like to thank all attendees and sponsors, and in particular the speakers who contributed to making the ‘Space for Subsea’ symposium an unforgettable event.

Presentations

Short Masterclasses
- Hans Out: Shell's Diving Centre of Excellence
- Arne Matthyssen: Concurrent Design & Engineering
- Andy Stewart: ROV Intervention Technology
- Johan de Bie: Saturation Diving, the Final Space Frontier?

Timeless
- James Haug: Upside Down -  Competetiveness when Failure is not an Option
- Matthijs van de Kooij / Catina Geselschap: First Time Right - Simulations in Space and Offshore

Manless
- David Roodenburg: Robotics in Offshore
- Charlotte Beskow: The ESA Automated Transfer Vehicle

Flawless
- Rader Abdul Fattah: Satellite Technology: an Important Tool to Understand the Deep Subsurface
- Adam Serblowski: Shell Perspective on the Value of Robotics

Award Ceremony
- Jan Willem van Dongen: Swab pressure due to cone pop-out