Dynamic Positioning 2010

The next DP Conference, to be held October 12-13, 2010 in Houston, is internationally recognized as the industry's leading conference on Dynamic Positioning. The Conference attracts an international audience of industry professionals. A call for papers has been issued with deadline for abstracts in April 15, 2010.

Those selected to present papers will have the opportunity to address a highly sophisticated and knowledgeable audience. In addition, papers presented at the conference become part of an extensive library of DP material accessible through the DP website. This technological know-how and data covers a broad range of DP issues, incidents, and topics, providing the most recent, and comprehensive single source of DP information and DP industry technical papers available anywhere worldwide.

Technical Committee will consider papers addressing the following topics:

• Arctic Vessels, Workboats, Shuttle Tankers
• Operations and Procedures, Simultaneous Operations
• DP Design and Control
• Power Plant Management
• Thrusters, Sensors
• New Technologies
• Reliability, Risk and Regulations
• Environmental Issues
• Training Methods

If you have a different topic which you feel would be of technical or operational interest to the industry, please submit if for consideration.