Huacan Fang - Offshore Operation Facilities: Equipment and Procedures

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Fang, Huacan.

Offshore operation facilities : equipment and procedures / Huacan Fang, Menglan Duan.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-12-396977-4 (hardback)

1. Offshore oil well drilling. I. Duan, Menglan. II. Title.

TN871.3.F35 2014

622'.33819dc23

2014021033

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Huacan Fang , Professor at China University of Petroleum (Beijing), was born on March 9, 1930, in Dingyuan, Anhui Province. As a member of the Communist party of China, Professor Fang graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Beiyang University (now Tianjin University) and has worked successively as a teacher at the Department of Petroleum at Tsinghua University, the Associate Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Beijing Petroleum Institute, the Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the East-China Petroleum Institute (name changed due to relocation from Beijing to Shandong), Vice President of East-China Petroleum Institute since 1984, Vice President of University of Petroleum (East China) since 1988, and the Deputy Director of the Council of China University of Petroleum (Beijing) in 1992. He retired in 1996.

During the years 1996 to 2008, he served as Team Lead of the Teaching Expert Panel at the Department of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at China University of Petroleum (Beijing). In 2009, he took the role of Leader at the university-level Teaching Expert Panel; now Professor Fang is also a consultant at the Equipment Industry Association of CNPC and Sinopec. Having cultivated more than 40 postgraduate students, he created 11 courses for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, including Oil Drilling Machinery, Offshore Oil Drilling Equipment and Structures, Mechanical Vibrations, Theoretical Foundation of Offshore Oil Drilling Equipmen, Reliability Engineering, and others.

He has obtained more than 10 research project grants including The Research into the Safety and Reliability of the Offshore Structures. Because of this project, he won the Second Prize of the National Prize for Progress in Science and Technology, and the First and Second Provincial and Ministerial Prizes for Progress in Science and Technology Progress 10 times and obtained two Chinese patents. In addition, Professor Fang has published nearly 200 papers, of which more than 40 were published abroad and some 30 have been included in SCI and EI. He has published more than 14 books, including Theoretical Foundation of Offshore Oil Drilling Equipment, The Fatigue Life of Offshore Oil Steel Structure, The Reliability Analysis of Offshore Structures In Ice Areas, The Safety Reliability Analysis of Oil and Gas Pipeline, Mechanism Design by English, Design of Mechanical Elements by English, About the Classroom Teachings of Higher Education. In addition, Professor Fang established a new branch of Fuzzy Probability Fracture Mechanics used in offshore oil engineering and published his book Fuzzy Probability Fracture Mechanics (for Ocean Engineering) in 1999. In 1992, he was awarded National Outstanding Expert status for his significant contributions and was granted government subsidies.

Menglan Duan , born in 1966, held a Bachelor's degree (1987) in petroleum drilling engineering at the Department of Petroleum Engineering, Jianghan University of Petroleum (Yangtze University since 2003), a Master's degree (1990) in offshore structural engineering and a Ph.D. degree (1993) in petroleum mechanical engineering at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Petroleum of China. He was later a postdoctoral fellow both in the Division of Solid Mechanics at the Institute of Mechanics and at the, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester, New York, USA. In 1995, he conducted research as a senior engineer in the offshore engineering department of the Headquarters of China Classification Society. Then, he was promoted to be a research professor in the CCS Research and Development Center. From 2001 to 2002, he headed for the establishment of the joint venture of risk management services between CCS and ABS, and from 2002 to 2006, he was the chief engineer of CCS Industrial Corp. He is now the head of the Offshore Oil/Gas Research Center, China University of Petroleum and the director of China-Brazil Joint Research Center for Subsea Engineering.

Prof. Menglan Duan has a wide range of research areas and has conducted over 140 projects related to fixed and mobile platforms, subsea pipelines and risers, subsea production systems, in the following areas: Arctic Mechanics and Offshore Engineering; Subsea Engineering; Fatigue and Fracture of Materials and Structures; Dynamics of Offshore Engineering Structures; Mechanical Behaviour of Materials; Risk and Reliability in Offshore and Ocean Engineering. He has published over 300 technical papers in many international journals and conferences. His academic titles include the following international organizations: Chair of China Branch of Society for Underwater Technology; Technical Committee Member of the 14th and 15th International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC); Technical Program Member of the International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE); Committee Member of the 11th International Symposium on Practical Design of Ships and other Floating Structures; International Scientific Committee Member of the 7th International Conference on Thin-Walled Structures; International Scientific Committee Member of the 3th International Conference on Fracture Fatigue and Wear; Committee Member of the 7th International Workshop on Ship Hydrodynamics; Secretary of 2012 SUT International Conference on Subsea Technologies and Deepwater Engineering. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Development and Application of Oceanic Engineering and Frontiers in Fossil Fuel Engineering while simultaneously an editorial board member of many international journals, such as Ships and Offshore Structures, Ocean Systems Engineering, Ocean Systems Engineering, International Journal of Energy Engineering, Thermal Energy and Power Engineering, Petroleum Science, China Ocean Engineering. He is the chairperson of the following international conferences: MARIENV95, ISOPE2000, ISSC2000, ISSC2003, PACOMS2006, ISOPE2007, APAC2007, ISOPE2008, ISOPE2009, IDOT2009, SUT2010, ISOPE2010, PRADS2010, IWSH2011, ISOPE2011, ISOPE2012, ISOPE2013, SUTTC2013.