Will be attending the forum tomorrow...
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Forum on Marine Environment
Organised by
The Joint Branch of the RINA and the IMarEST (Singapore), Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers Singapore
and
Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Technology Development Office, Centre of Innovation - Marine & Offshore Technology
“How Should the Marine Industry Respond to
Environmental Impact?”
By Professor Chengi KUO
University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Date : Tuesday, 28th June 2011
Time : 6:15 pm to 7:00 pm Registration & Refreshments
Talk begins at 7:00 p.m. and ends at 8:15 p.m.
Venue : Lecture Theatre 68E, Ngee Ann Polytechnic
Panel Chairman: Mr Tan Kim Pong, Director, Centre of Innovation,
Marine & Offshore Technology, Ngee Ann Polytechnic
Members : Mr, James Ashworth, President, Joint Branch Royal Institute of the Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Singapore
Mr AK Seah, Vice President, Technology and Business Development,
ABS, Pacific Division Southern Region
Mr Kenneth Kee, President, SNAMES
Please see the attached documents for the abstract of the talk and biography of the speaker.
For registration, please confirm with Mr Thomas Ng by Friday, 17th June 2011 via the reply slip.
Woon Kok Meng
For Technical Committee
Joint Branch (RINA-IMarEST), Singapore
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ABSTRACT
How Should the Marine Industry Respond to Environmental Impact?
Everyone has an appreciation of safety and environmental pollution. Indeed, safety definitions involve the term “harm” which implies injuries to people, damage to property and pollution of the environment. In practice more attention has been paid to the former two features. The exception being, for example, the grounding of tanker Exxon Vadiz in Alaska in which 0.25 million tonnes of oil were discharged. This in turn led to the formulating and passing of the Oil Pollution Act 1990. This situation can no longer be the same after the explosion of Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010. There were with loss of lives and significant discharging of oil into the sea from the Macondo well which was only terminated after successful capping. The challenge for the operators and the governments is to introduce balanced solutions that will allow continued offshore activities while preventing repetitions or minimising the risk of pollution. The purpose of this seminar is to examine the implications this accident for the marine industry.
The forum begins by highlighting the accident of Deepwater Horizon semi submersible while drilling in the Gulf of Mexico following failure of the blowout preventer over the well in Macondo field. It then goes on to discuss the basic issues before reviewing how environmental impact (EI) is likely to be addressed in the offshore oil and gas industry. The EI treatment in the marine industry is then reviewed. The contributions of prescriptive regulatory and EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) methods are then examined. An approach, called Enhanced Safety Case, is described and its method of integrating EI with safety management summarised together with how it can be applied in the marine industry. Opportunities for the marine industry in contributing to minimising EI will be outlined. Key issues will be discussed and conclusions drawn.
Professor Chengi KUO
B Sc, PhD, C Eng, FRINA, FSUT, FRSE
Professor Kuo is an academic motivated by the challenge of providing innovative teaching and applying research advances to practice in a number of subject areas. Graduated from the University of Glasgow, he pioneered the application of computers to ship design and shipbuilding on the Clyde in the 1960’s. He then gained experience working in U.S.A on propeller-excited vibration. On his return to Scotland he joined the University of Strathclyde with responsibility for developing postgraduate education and research. He became a Professor in 1972 - the first person of Chinese origin to hold such a position in UK.
Notable achievements over this period include the following:
- He built and led a team to study ship stability and organized the First International Conference on Stability of Ship and Ocean Vehicles in 1975 and his initiatives have enabled the subject to become a recognized research topic by the industry and marine research community.
In all the areas of his interests he has gained international recognition.
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