IMCA 2005 Annual Seminar
The thirteenth IMCA Annual Seminar will be held in Abu Dhabi at the Beach Rotana Hotel and Towers from 22nd to 23rd November 2005. The IMCA Middle East & India Section (which includes the Caspian Sea region) will host the Annual Seminar. Like the 2004 event, this will be an IMCA division-wide seminar combining topical plenary sessions of interest to all involved in offshore, marine and underwater engineering. Once again there will be parallel marine and diving sessions. Steve MacMillan, chairman, IMCA Middle East & India Section, will open the plenary session with a welcoming address. IMCA president Frits Janmaat of the Allseas Group will focus on ‘IMCA - taking forward marine contracting’. Ron McGuire, AMDA-OPCO will give a client's perspective of marine contracting in the Middle East. The conference will then split into marine and diving sessions for the rest of the day, with conventional presentations followed by three parallel workshops under each heading to bring the afternoon to a close. The second day opens with a joint plenary session covering topics such as diving from DP vessels. This will be followed once again by parallel marine and diving sessions until lunchtime. The conference comes together for the second plenary session of the day before delegates make a choice between one of four parallel workshops.
