Fourth Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust Lecture

22 November 2010 (Monday) at 7p.m.

University Hall Auditorium, National University of Singapore

A Continuing Process in Subsea Technology

Dr Bil Loth
WD Loth and Company, United Kingdom
Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore

Abstract

Development of subsea technology for hydrocarbon production has traditionally stemmed from
surface operations not necessarily in the oil business. Military research and development has often
been the source of the technology required for progress. This is an ongoing process with the vastly
greater research and development activity of non-petroleum sectors often providing technology for
adaptation to subsea production operations.
This process has left subsea technology with legacies that are deeply embedded in current
practice but not necessarily optimal in the light of evolving technology. The process also provides an
oracle (probably no more reliable than any other) predicting how subsea technology will progress.
The evolution of maintenance systems, control systems, and subsea trees are reviewed in some
detail to illustrate the development process and to project evolution of these components.

About the Speaker

Dr Bil LOTH is Past President of The Institute of Marine Engineering Science &
Technology (IMarEST), and since 1986 runs his own consulting, WD Loth and
company which provides subsea engineering expertise on world-class
development projects all over the globe and developed a number of specialized
technologies for deepwater application. He now divides his time between
London and Houston as a technical advisor for major operators and engineering
contractors.

Bil’s entire professional career has been in offshore engineering. He joined the
fledging subsea group at Esso Production Research Company upon graduation.
In the first ten years, he held various positions in the production department of
Exxon during which time he was a member of the task force which designed and
installed the first multiwall template based subsea production system. He was
then seconded to Shell Expro in the UK and for the next ten years held various positions in the execution and
planning of underwater developments.

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Fourth Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust Lecture

Dr Bil Loth
WD Loth and Company, United Kingdom
Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore

Monday, 22 November 2010

University Hall Auditorium, NUS at 7pm
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