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March 13, 2020
Asset Integrity for an Offshore Oil & Gas Installation and Structural Reliability Assessment
As part of the OFFshore ITRH training initiative, OFFshore ITRH member and Professor of Offshore Structures at UWA, Mike Efthymiou, provided the first training for 2020 on Asset Integrity for an Offshore Oil & Gas Installation and Structural Reliability Assessment. With over 30 years of experience at Shell in a range of roles, Mike provided…
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February 25, 2020
OFFshore ITRH at KOZWaves 2020
OFFshore ITRH members Wenhua Zhao, Hugh Wolgamot and David Skene recently attended KOZWaves 2020 at the University of Melbourne. The conference spanned three days and provided a forum for contemporary research on wave science, promoting interdisciplinary collaborations between Australasian wave scientists and international researchers. A broad range of topics, covering theoretical and experimental aspects of…
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January 23, 2020
OFFshore ITRH Awarded Access to High Performance Computing Facilities
The OFFshore ITRH has been awarded over 15 million core hours under the 2020 Pawsey supercomputer allocation scheme in order to undertake analysis for the project “Optimising the design and operation of offshore oil and gas facilities using numerical modelling”. The project aims at developing new knowledge and technologies that will improve the design and…
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January 21, 2020
Resources Technology Showcase 2019
In late 2019, members of the OFFshore Hub attended the Resources Technology Showcase (RTS2019) at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre. This international event brought together executives from the fields of hard rock mining and oil and gas in order to discuss how technology is reshaping their operations. This unprecedented gathering of mining and energy…
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November 15, 2019
Dr Hugh Wolgamot, ARC DECRA Recipient
Congratulations to OFFshore ITRH Chief Investigator Hugh Wolgamot who was recently awarded an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) to develop the use of design waves for establishing safer and more efficient offshore systems. The DECRA scheme provides focused research support for early career researchers in both teaching and research, and research-only positions. Hugh…
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October 24, 2019
Melinda Hodkiewicz elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering
Congratulations go out to OFFshore ITRH Chief Investigator Melinda Hodkiewicz, who is a newly appointed Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE). Melinda is one of 25 recently appointed experts chosen from across the research, government and industry sectors. Hailed as an Asset management thought leader, Melinda was chosen for being instrumental…
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October 9, 2019
Dr Lijun Deng, a Robert and Maude Gledden Senior Visiting Fellow
The Robert and Maude Gledden Senior Visiting Fellowship promotes and encourages education and research at the University in the disciplines of applied science, particularly related to surveying, engineering, mining or cognate subjects. As a visiting Gledden scholar, Dr Lijun Deng is currently collaborating with colleagues from UWA’s Oceans Institute and the OFFshore ITRH (Phil Watson,…
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October 8, 2019
Field trip to the Rowley Shoals
Members of both the UWA Ocean Dynamics group and the OFFshore ITRH Project 1 (Metocean) team recently returned from a second field campaign on the Australian Northwest Shelf. This campaign was focused just inshore of the Rowley Shoals, a group of three atoll-like coral reefs about 260 km west of Broome. The experiment was a…
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September 25, 2019
Spotlight on PhD Student Tianqiang Jia
Tianqiang Jia is a PhD student within the Project 4: Novel Anchors and Subsea Foundation Systems project stream. His research focus is on tolerably mobile foundations which have the ability to move in response to pipeline expansion and contraction. Movement of the mobile foundation alleviates the loads acting on pipeline end terminations (PLETs), permitting a…
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September 2, 2019
Boost for data science skills in the natural resource industry
Congratulations goes out to OFFshore ITRH Chief Investigator Dr Ed Cripps who, in conjunction with Mark Jessell and Mark Lindsay of UWA, are part of a recently announced $10M ARC Training Centre in Data Analytics for Resources and Environments (DARE) aimed at boosting data science skills in the natural resources sector. The new Industrial Transformation…
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