Today’s topic was Offshore Engineering. A very timely topic since we’d be doing the upstream mock project. Our guest speaker was Fred Schruit, a Danish piping expat who’s in the same project as I am. His presentation was informative and really interesting. You could just imagine the skills to be acquired by structural engineers to put up this kind of structures considering there's wave motion, wind, current, weather, structural twisting and bending and others to think of on design issues. Learned the different types of bottom supported and floating substructures. Learned that the Troll’s Norway oilrig structure is almost as high and heavy as Eiffel Tower. Learned that it’s possible nowadays to put well heads via satellite. At the end of the presentation the group gave him a Philippine eagle carved in wood as a thank-you-gift.