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www.marinelink.com MN 39 OTC 2011 Awards Each year the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) recognizes indi- viduals, organizations and new tech- nologies that have made outstanding contributions to the offshore indus- try. The Distinguished Achievement Awards will be presented at the Annual OTC Dinner, a new event to be held on Sunday, May 1, at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. The dinner kicks off the conference which takes place May 2-5 at Reliant Park in Houston. The Spot Light on New Technology awards ceremony will take place at 4:00 p.m. on May 2 in the Reliant Center Lobby B Rotunda. OTC 2011 DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS The 2011 Distinguished Achievement Award for individuals will be presented to Cort Cooper. Cooper, a metocean (meteorology and oceanographic) specialist in Chevron's Energy Technology Company and a Chevron Fellow, is being honored for his contributions in metocean research and his leader- ship of joint industry efforts to address oceanographic challenges. Cooper’s work includes research that identified a link between hurricane severity and the Loop Current, inves- tigated the causes for the recent severe hurricanes and the possible impacts of global warming on hurricane sever- ity, and provided a post-assessment of metocean conditions during hurri- cane Ivan. The 2011 Distinguished Achievement Award for organizations will be presented to BP Norway for the Life of Field seismic reservoir sur- veillance project, which demonstrat- ed the practicality of implementing an entirely new way of seismic sur- veillance of producing hydrocarbon reservoirs. The project’s permanent installation of seismic cables covering 45 square kilometers of the Valhall field allows for very cost effective repeat seismic surveys and the system provides 4D data with unique repeatability compared to standard streamer data. In addition, ExxonMobil Development Company will receive a special citation for the development and implementation of the “Design One, Build Multiple” philosophy to deliver major deepwater projects in Angola’s Block 15.
