Technical Webinar: "Tropical storms – risks and costs in offshore operations"
Technical Webinar
Co-Organised by
The Joint Branch of the RINA and IMarEST (Singapore)
The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers Singapore
Singapore Shipping Association
Tropical storms – risks and costs in offshore operations
by
Jennifer Hibbert
Fugro
Date : 24th September 2020 (Thursday)
Time : The webinar will begin at 6:00 pm and ends at 7.30 pm
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Abstract
Offshore structures are designed typically to "100 year" storm conditions, which are representative of the worst conditions anticipated in the operational life of the asset. There are documented cases in both the shipping and offshore industries of structural damage, asset downtime and environmental catastrophe induced by severe weather incidents over and above structural design limits.
This talk will give an introduction to the conventions and underlying physics of Tropical Revolving Storms, inherent uncertainty associated with such processes and current practices in weather forecasting. It will also touch upon ways to address risk and consequences of storms in offshore design and operations with asset monitoring, remote tools and metocean criteria updates.
About the Speaker
Jennifer Hibbert is Operations Manager at Fugro’s regional Weather Forecasting centre in Singapore. She has over 10 years’ experience delivering weather forecasts to the offshore oil & gas industry and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Atmosphere Science and Mathematics from the University of North Carolina, Asheville. She started her career in Houston, Texas at Wilkens Weather where she became a subject matter expert in Gulf of Mexico weather, providing weather advice for offshore contractors, and daily on-camera presentations for a wide range of Marine, Aviation, and Energy Trading customers. After moving to Singapore, she gained specialty in Asia-Pacific weather patterns with a primary focus on Tropical Cyclones. She now manages operations for Fugro Singapore while continuing to provide expert advice and metocean training onshore, on-site and remotely.
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