Conference, and Committee Experience
Tim Crome has been an active contributer to Norwegian industry organisations and to Norwegian and international conferences, both as a speaker, panel member and committee / board member.
Program Committees
Subsea Pipeline Technology Forum (SPT) in London, Underwater Technology Conference (UTC) in Bergen and the Offshore Pipeline Technology (OPT) Conference in Amsterdam, and the bi-annual Norwegian Petroleum Societies’ Pipeline and Riser Conference.
Previously member of the DNV Pipeline Committee, following up the development of the internationally recognised DNV Rules for Offshore Pipelines.
Industry Organisations
Experience as company representative on various industry organisations and boards, including the British Norwegian Chamber of
Commerce (BNCC), Subsea Valley, the Norwegian Society for Marine Minerals. Member of the Norwegian Federation of Industry (NHO) working group on Energy Strategy.
Conference & Training
Extensive experience as conference speaker and panel discussion participant in Norway, Europe / UK and at OTC, Houston.
Initiated and ran the internal Technip Norway Engineering Seminars from 2002 to 2007. Planned and executed global training programs for TechnipFMC in 2018/19 following the merger between Technip and FMC Technologies.
Selected Conference References
A full list of conference presentations and papers is available on request.
| Title | Date & Conference |
| North Sea Piplines – Recent Developments in Design, Maintenance and Repair | November 1987 International Conference, Pipe Technology, Rome |
| Reeling of Pipelines with Thick Insulation Coating, Finite Element Analysis of Local Buckling Phenomena | May 1999 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston – Texas, OTC Paper 10715 |
| Recent Experience with 13%Cr Flowlines and Cathodic Protection | September 2002 DNV Pipeline Committee, Høvik, Norway |
| Burial and Protection of High Pressure / High Temperature Pipelines | October 2002 Offshore Pipeline and Riser Conference, Trondheim |
| Flowlines Installation on Kristin – New Techniques | March 2003 Offshore Pipeline Technology Conference, Amsterdam |
| Experience with Flexible Risers & New Flowline Technology | March 2004 Underwater Technology Conference, Bergen |
| Experience and risks with pipeline trenching within EPCI contracts | August 2005 Subsea Operations Conference, Haugesund |
| Snøhvit Logistics – Pipelaying in the Arctic | March 2007 MCE Deepwater Conference, London |
| Experiences and Pitfalls with Interfaces | March 2007 Offshore Pipeline Technology Conference, Amsterdam |
| Smoothbore Flexible Riser for Gas Export, | May 2007 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston – Texas, OTC Paper 18703 |
| Shtokman, A Contractors Viewpoint | February 2009 Russia Offshore, 4th Annual Meeting, Moscow |
| Hywind Demo – Technip Experience with Offshore Wind | September 2010 Underwater Technology Conference, Bergen, Norway |
| Arctic Outlook – A service company perspective | February 2014 Arctic Technology Conference, Houston, Texas |
| Subsea in The Far North, Challenges and Expectations | May 2014 RISING SUBSEA Symposium, Delft, Netherlands |
| Technip, a World Class Long-term Partner | February 2015 Egypt Oil and Gas Summit, Cairo, Egypt |
| Experience transfer in SURF contracts from North Sea area | November 2015 UOG 2015 Conference, Tel Aviv |
| Eastern Mediterranean Experience & Challenges | September 2016 3rd London Gas & LNG Forum, Rag Army & Navy Club, London |
| The use of an integrated contract model (iEPCI ) for Subsea developments | April 2017 MCE Deepwater Development Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Experience to date with the new iEPCI™ contract model for Subsea Projects | February 2019 Offshore Support Journal Subsea Conference, London, England |
| Marine Mining – A Potential Growth Industry | November 2021 Offshore Support Journal Subsea conference, London, England |
| Subsea Technology for Sustainable Extraction of Deep Sea Minerals | August 2022 ONS Conference, Stavanger, Norway |