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Management Team
Management Empl.
Jian Gao P.E., PH-D.-General Manager
Dr. Jian Gao has more than twenty years of experience in the fields of structural engineering and engineering mechanics. He has gained ten years of experience within the universities and national laboratories specializing in structural design, advanced structural analysis, advanced engineering composite material testing and modeling. For the past thirteen years, he has been involved in offshore structural design and analysis, structural design review and verifications. His offshore experience encompasses both conceptual and detailed design and analyses for deepwater jackets, compliant towers and floating structures. Dr. Gao has strong knowledge of advance structural analyses of offshore structures including, time domain dynamic, fatigue, seismic and nonlinear analyses.
Representative projects include:
- Engineering Manager, Bongkot 4A transportation and floatover installation project, 19,500 MT deck, responsible for all T&I engineering activities.
- Project Manager, CNOOC PY34-1 jacket basis design verification (190m).
- Project Manager South Nemba Auxiliary platform jacket design (386 ft) – concept, FEED and detail design.
- Project Manager, CNOOC/POC PY5-1 (360 ft) and PY4-2 (314 ft) platform structural re-analysis.
- Lead Structural Engineer, CNOOC/PY30-1 deepwater (200m) jacket design including jacket configuration, FEED, detail design, and construction support.
- Education
- Ph.D., Civil Engineering, The University of New Mexico
- M.S., Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University
- B.S., Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University
