
Increased knowledge of the modelling capabilites within the software was the outcome for 25 Phast and Phast Risk users attending the Phast advanced modelling course in Beijing from 1-4 June. This was the first advanced Phast Risk course to be held in China, and the participants were key customers from SINOPEC, CNPC and CNOOC.

We are proud to announce new releases of key Sesam products during the first quarter of 2010 focusing improved user efficiency as well as new functionalities.

In March, DNV Software delivered an on-site course, named “Concept based FE modeling and analysis jacket and topside design”, to SMOE in Singapore, 15 days before closing the deal for the Sesam software purchase, reconfirming DNV's leading position in the offshore engineering software technology market. DNV introduced its first Sesam software more than 40 years ago and has been the industry's technology pioneer since then.

Mumbai and 1st and 2nd December 2009 will surely hold a special significance for DNV Software in the years to come. It was in this commercial capital of India and during these two days that a Software Conference was organized in India – for the first time.

DNV Software is hosting a series of conferences, workshops and seminars for its Safeti and Sesam customers in Europe and North America during October. Please see below for a summary of these events and follow the links for further information and registration details.

DNV Software News 01 2009 is now available. We are celebrating Sesam's 40 years; also in this issue you can read about how Ulstein gives the Nauticus Yard Package thumbs up, Nauticus Hull for CSR Bulk and Safeti Performance Forecasting among other interesting topics.

With a growing demand to serve our customers in India, DNV Software officially opened its new office 1 April in Hyderabad.

To better serve our customers, DNV Software has chosen an environmental friendly and efficient way of publishing DNV Software News. The latest issues are available for on-line interactive reading from www.dnvsoftware.com, in addition to regular download as a pdf file.

DNV in Houston is moving office effective from Monday 16 March. Please note the new contact details to reach DNV Software sales and support.

DNV Software is proud to release an updated version of Sesam including new versions of the industry-leading software tools GeniE, HydroD and DeepC.

DNV Software is pleased to announce the release of its management solution Sesam Structure Integrity v2.5. This version contains updates in a number of areas and tools within the software, in addition to introducing two new tools.

We are pleased to announce the release of Leak v3.21, which has been developed to resolve a small number of issues raised following the Leak v3.2 release in 2007. The main issue addressed only affected customers with regional settings which use a comma instead of a point as the decimal symbol.

We are pleased to announce the release of Phast v6.54 containing updates in a number of areas of the program as described in more detail in the full article.

Volvo Ocean Race has chosen DNV Software to enable and simplify environmental monitoring and reporting. The Environmental Performance System provides a cost-efficient, continuous and holistic view over environmental effects from the Volvo Ocean Race operations.

The Deepwater Offshore Technology Symposium, DTec 2008, was held in Shanghai, China on 17-19 November 2008 including the opening ceremony of the China Deepwater Offshore Basin at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Recently the DNV Software Conferences were held in Kobe and Busan, 6-7 and 13-14 November respectively, attracting more than 60 attendees in Japan and 150 in Korea. Both conferences were good places to share knowledge and meet industry peers.

On November 10-11, more than 220 customers visited Shanghai to participate in the 2008 DNV Software user conference in China. During this two-day event our users learned new features in our software, shared their experience and deeply involved in the workshops.