Jan van Kessel

Senior Engineer Floating City Development bij Blue21

Delft, South Holland, Netherlands

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Experience

  • Senior Engineer Floating City Development at Blue21
    Oct 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 9 mos

    Consulting, performing and reviewing of structural and maritime engineering works for floating city development, contributing to research projects and strategy. Providing expert technical support on large floating structures in the field of moorings, hydrodynamics, fluid-structure interaction and hydroelasticity.

  • Senior Offshore Structures Engineer at Shell
    Sep 2013 - Present · 12 yrs 10 mos

    Providing expert technical support and leading activities for projects and assets in the field of risers, moorings and hydrodynamics. These activities included repair and inspection of mooring systems, asset integrity and life time extensions of offshore structures, design and delivery of water intake risers and mooring systems. Also acted as: - Activity Lead for repair and rejuvenation at an onshore LNG facility. - Technical Authority for floating structures. - Lead Engineer for Water Intake Risers for Prelude FLNG, Browse FLNG, Abadi FLNG. - Line manager for Offshore Structures engineers. - HSSE focal point for the Civil and Offshore Structures discipline.

  • Koninklijk Instituut Van Ingenieurs (KIVI) (8 yrs 3 mos)
    • Chairman Offshore Technology
      May 2017 - May 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      Chairman at the section of Offshore Technology at the Royal Institute for Engineers in the Netherlands.

    • Vice Chairman Offshore Technology
      Mar 2012 - May 2017 · 5 yrs 3 mos

      Vice chairman at the section of Offshore Technology at the Royal Institute for Engineers in the Netherlands. The section of Offshore Technology has approximately 1200 members. Organized international symposia, lectures and excursions for professionals in the Dutch offshore industry and students. Annually organized an award and ceremony for the best offshore engineering MSc thesis at Delft University of Technology. Chair (annual) board meetings, lectures and symposia.

  • Senior Engineer Hydrodynamics at SBM Offshore
    Sep 2011 - Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Lead engineer for hydrodynamics & mooring of FPSOs. Performed hydrodynamic analyses, mooring analyses and riser analyses for FPSOs. Lead activities during the model testing campaign of FPSOs. Developed analytical tools for fast and efficient design of mooring systems for FPSOs. Supervised MSc students during their internship.

  • Engineer Product Development at GustoMSC
    Oct 2009 - Sep 2011 · 2 yrs

    Engineer at the product development team at GustoMSC | SBM Offshore. Developed a Sea Water Intake Riser system for wind turbine installation jack-ups. Performed research into Dynamic Positioning of vessels in Arctic conditions. Designed and analyzed the hydrodynamic behaviour of vessels for installation of offshore wind turbines. Lead activities for floating wind turbines (GustoMSC's Tri-Floater). Performed market investigations in the offshore wind industry, prepared award winning proposals for government grants, developed software for floating wind turbines in cooperation with MARIN and ECN, performed complex hydro-aerodynamic analysis to model the behaviour of floating wind turbines. Developed software to model the interaction between complex mechanical and hydrodynamic systems. Supervised MSc students during their internship.