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Daastol of Norsk Hydro, Norway, while Lars Backman, export manager of Wermex, Swed- en, will describe his company's en- deavors to become a competitive supplier to the offshore industry through materials administration. Two sessions on Wednesday will be devoted to seven papers and a discussion of problems and solu- tions in the design, construction, and use of floating cranes and sheer- legs and their associated slings. The implications for the design of struc- tures to be lifted will also be consid- ered. The chairman for both ses- sions will be Peter H.B. Mitchell, consulting naval architect of Brown & Root (UK) Ltd. Among papers to be presented will be one on lifting considerations in the design of heavy offshore mod- ules, by I.R. Horgan, senior man- ager-structural and marine engi- neering at Brown & Root (UK) Ltd. The design of very large cranes for offshore construction will be exam- ined by Bruce A. Copp, chief pro- ject structural engineer at Clyde, U.S., while naval architect Ulrich Dischler of Neptun, West Germa- ny, will discuss economies in direct costs and time achieved by using advanced floating sheerlegs for in- shore and offshore erection of as- semblies before moving to site. The subject of marine pipelines will be dealt with on Wednesday afternoon under the chairmanship of Malcolm Mitchell, engineering manager of Hamilton Bros. Ltd., U.K., who will also offer a paper, in conjunction with Dr. Raj Jain and Stephen Williams of Brown & Root Engineering Ltd., U.K., on the Esmond pipeline, the first to be laid in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea. The line passes through a treacherous environment, requir- ing extensive hindcast, plus mathe- matical modelling. A number of new design concepts for stability, ca- thodic protection, mechanical con- nectors, and pipeline crossings will be discussed. Peter Hinstrup, head of the Offshore Department of DHI, Den- mark, and Helge Gravesen, se- nior hydraulic engineer of Ramboell og Hannemen, Consulting and Plan- ners A/S, Denmark, will speak on Submarine Pipeline Design. Johan Peter Schwartz of Seanor Engi- neering A/S, Norway, will discuss deepwater flowlines and alternative methods of installation, tie-in, and repair. Max Eliasson of Sydgas, Sweden, will speak on Sweden's ac- cess to North Sea gas via the Ore- sund Pipeline. Dr. W.J. Supple and J.P. Kenny of the U.K., and T. Thronsen of Saga Petroleum, Nor- way, will deliver a paper on The Potential of J-Lay for the Troll Field. On Thursday morning, four pa- pers will be presented at a session chaired by Odd Tveit of Statoil, Norway. The first, from Dr. Mark Pyman of Technica A/S, Norway, will deal with the use of risk analysis techniques in the evaluation of plat- Maritime Reporter/Engineering News