DP Guidance Committee

Mission
The sub-committee will provide and maintain MTS DP Committee Guidance documents addressing Operations, Design, DP Personnel, and also topical white papers under a category called TECHOP (Technical and Operational) Guidance documents. It will develop these documents with advice from and engagement with key personnel across the industry. The intent is to provide advice and guidance that promotes the achievement of incident-free DP operations. The documents are not copyrighted and are available for download without charge. Only the current version will be available off the website.
Committee Chair

Suman Muddesetti, Shell

Contact

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Committee Members 
(updated 16th January 2023)
Name
Title
Company
Community
Delegate

Michael Hensley


Chief Engineer

ABS

Class

Jason Aspin


CEO/CTO

AKA

DP EQUIPMENT

Ed Bourgeau

Sytske de Groot


Department Head Naval Architecture

ALLSEAS

Heavy Construction

Geir Larsen


DP and Electrical

ALTERA

DP Shuttle Tankers

Manuel Koojiman


Global DP System Specialist

BUREAU VERITAS

Class

Marijn Dijk 


Senior Naval Architect

CADELER

Offshore Wind

Kris Kallaway


Director Marine Assurance Integration Upstream

CONOCO PHILLIPS

Operator

Antony Dsouza


VP  DnV  Americas

DnV

Class

Aleks Karlsen

Dr. Steven Cargill

Noble Denton Marine Services- DNV

DnV (NDmS)

Consulting

Justin Adams

Principal Marine Operations Engineer

Exxon Mobil

Operator

Bjorn Nygard


Leading Advisor, Platform Tech Marin Concept

EQUINOR

Operator

Frode Fossum

Nick Smith

Marine Vertical, Director of Solutions Development

GE

DP EQUIPMENT

Carl Annessa

Exec. VP and COO

HORNBECK OFFSHORE

Logistics vessels and IRM

Kirk Raymond

Nils Evan Urkedal

VP

KONGSBERG MARITIME

DP EQUIPMENT

Zachary Clark

Lindsay Butler

Electrotechnical Principal Specialist

LR

Class

Joey Fisher

Managing Director

M3 MARINE

Consulting

John Lloyd

CEO

NAUTICAL INSTITUTE

Training and Certification

Tord Eirik Mongstad

Marine Manager

ODJFELL DRILLING

MODU’s

Aaron Smith

Chairman OMSA
Executive Director-OSVDPA

OMSA/OSVDPA

Support Vessels and Certification

Ari Andrade Nascimento

Engenheiro De Equipamentos

PETROBRAS

Operator

tig Olav Settemsdal

Global Head of Drilling & Marine Technology

SIEMENS

DP EQUIPMENT

Rune Andersen

Alexander Aramness

Vessel Manager, Global AHTS and PSV

SOLSTA

OSV/PSV- LIGHT CONSTRUCTION

John Flynn

Marine Manager

STENA DRILLING

MODU’s

Gustavio Garcia Hernandez

Fleet Operations Manager

TECHNIP

Heavy Construction

TBA

Prevention Division Chief District 8

USCG

Regulators

Cdr Ben Gates

Guidance Documents – Design and Construction Process 
Development of the Guidance Documents has followed a proven and systematic process. Once a topic needing the development of guidance has been identified, Stakeholders are identified who can positively influence and contribute to the development of the guidance document. These Stakeholders participate in a framing session which is conducted in a workshop setting and utilizes a proven process of brainstorming . This results in identification of themes that need to be addressed. These themes form the foundation of the guidance document. The themes are then further worked on by teams/sub-teams/individuals. The work output is subjected to a series of peer reviews, starting with a core group and expanding up to two more groups. The final product is reviewed by the core group and amended as necessary to be published on the MTS DP Committee web site. Upon publication, comments are invited from the end users. These comments are analyzed and addressed as appropriate in future revisions. After the initial revision the goal of this subcommittee would be to subject the revised documents to a two yearly review cycle and update as needed.
Sustainability 
The committee depends on participation and advice and engagement with key personnel across the industry to generate documents based on the above process. The peer reviewed documents are subsequently reviewed and approved by core leadership of the committee. Presently it is intended that TECHOP documents, once published, will cover new material and or addendums to the primary documents. These TECHOP documents will be systematically reviewed for appropriate incorporation into the primary documents when undergoing their periodic review cycle. TECHOP material, when incorporated in the primary documents, shall be withdrawn as TECHOP’s.
Acknowledgement
DnV has volunteered to provide admin support to assist in publishing and maintaining the MTS DP Committee Guidance documents. This support is greatly appreciated and gracefully accepted. The MTS DP Committee wishes to recognize DnV for their contributions to the all voluntary efforts of the MTS DP Committee. Admin support will be used to establish and maintain the format of the documents on the MTS web site. Additionally this support will be leveraged to collate and organize comments on the documents from Industry to enable their being addressed appropriately by the subcommittee.
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