Specialisation

• Project/ Study Management
• Naval Architecture
• Dynamic Response (to wind and waves)

Qualifications

• BSc. (Hons) Mathematical Physics, Edinburgh University
• MSc., Edinburgh University

Experience

Mr Fyfe's experience extends to more than 25 years in offshore and underwater technology.  He is involved in a wide range of engineering activities including studies of weather sensitive operations and risk based design methods.  He has participated in design, analysis and procurement, of floating and fixed oil and gas production facilities.

His recent experience includes naval architecture and installation of jackets and topsides, both at hands-on and supervising levels.  He has developed software for dynamic response to wind loading, motion analysis and assessment of structural fatigue and has used several naval architecture packages for the design of floating systems.  This work relies heavily on the interpretation of metocean data for the assessment of operational weather windows or preparation of adverse weather procedures.

Mr Fyfe has additional experience in the following areas:

• Planning and conducting model tests
• On-bottom stability of pipelines
• Simulation and control of underwater vehicles

Publications

“Weather Sensitive Operations and Metocean Data” draft final report for UK HSE.

“Risk Assessment for FPSO Hull Design” draft report, recommended for future publication.

“Floating Structures: a guide for the design and analysis”; contributing author to chapters 4, “Hydrostatics and stability” and 13, “Flexible risers and umbilicals”, OPL publication 101/98.

“Design for safety and structural efficiency: applications to a TLP”.  Joint paper for OFFSHORE '95 at the Institute of Marine Engineers , London 1995.

“Jacket to Template Docking, Recent Developments” Joint paper for OFFSHORE '94, London 1994.

“Design Issues Relating to Hull and Deck Configuration of a TLP” Joint paper for Seminar on TBPs, London 1993.

“A Designer’s view of Extended Well Testing and Deep Water Production” SUT Seminar on Diverless and Deep Water Technology, February 1989.

“Fatigue Life Evaluation for Inclined Flare Booms” OMAE Europe 1989.

“Hydrodynamic Forces on Seabed Pipelines: Large Scale Laboratory Experiments” OTC Conference, 1987, Paper No. 5369.

“Forces on a rough, suspended pipeline under storm conditions”.  Fifth International Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering Symposium, 1986, Tokyo .

“Closed Loop Control Systems and Hydrodynamics of a Tethered Submersible.” Proceedings of the Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, 1980, Paper No.3767, (joint publication).