Dockwise: How Did It Get There?
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Dockwise: How Did It Get There?

The oil and gas industry, over the past 25 years, has moved from shallow water exploration and production of oil to ever greater depths. Each advance requires new designs to explore and produce hydrocarbon from deep beneath the ocean floor. The marine industry rose to the challenge of lifting, transporting and delivering the diverse structures from shore side construction facilities to on location stations several hundred miles offshore in deep ocean environments

Visions of the Bay
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Visions of the Bay

This lecture is inspired by a fascination with the Mexican government’s vision and the leadership of a handful of Texans that led to the transformation of a bay and a bayou to create a key engine of prosperity, the Port of Houston. The success of the Port has resulted from efforts made by these visionaries working through varied political systems, worldviews, and cultural differences.