About

Pedro was the first employee hired by 2H in Brazil, in January 2004, after graduating from PUC-Rio (Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro). His mechanical engineering studies included 1 year at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, with a dual-country scholarship granted to the best Brazilian engineers. Over the years, Pedro spent various periods of up to 9 months working in projects in 2H US, MY and UK offices, having gathered experience in all major offshore O&G regions. He has been based in the 2H Woking office since 2014, is part of the Local Management Team and leads the global flexible riser business within 2H.

Pedro’s 19 years’ experience ranges from shallow to deepwater risers, from concept design, through to integrity management and life extension and encompasses in particular flexible, rigid and hybrid riser production systems. He has worked on some major 2H projects such as Petrobras P-52, P-55, Guará&Lula-NE, BP Block31 PSVM, BP Tortue, and Total Kaombo, and is a long term sponsor of comprehensive engineering support on Tullow TEN and Jubilee and consultant on various key flexible projects across the 2H globe. Pedro is also part of the API 17J&B (flexibles) Task Group and one of the individual work group leaders.

From concept to installation. Has worked in 2H offices in BR, US, MY and UK, having gathered experience in all major offshore O&G regions.

About

Shankar Sundararaman is a Senior Principal Engineer with 2H Offshore. He has over 15 years' experience in the oil and gas industry, including design and numerical analysis of riser systems (drilling and completion risers, TTRs, SCRs, flexible risers), tendons, jumpers (rigid and flexible), machine learning (including digital twins) and cloud computing, structural health monitoring, drill string systems, drilling engineering analysis, and vibration analysis. He also has over 20 years engineering and R&D experience with numerical analysis, scientific computing, and finite element analysis. He has 5 granted patents, over 25 publications in international journals, conferences, and book articles, and presented at several international conferences. He has an undergraduate degree in Naval Architecture from IIT Madras, masters and doctoral degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and is a Licensed Professional Engineer (Naval Architecture) in the State of Texas.