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Curriculum Vitae
Name Björn von Ubisch
Adres NL Emmalaan 59
3051 JD Rotterdam
Netherlands
Tel +31 10 418 34 83
Ubitec tel +31 10 422 12 80
Ubitec fax +31 10 422 13 31
Mobile phone +31 622 70 98 79
E-mail ubitec@euronet.nl
Date of Birth 1944 – 01 – 30
Place of birth Oslo Norway
Nationality Swedish
Education Graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology,
Stockholm, Sweden, 1970 M. Sc. Naval Architecture and
Marine Engineer
Post graduation Theory of welding
Design of Hoisting Appliances
Finite Element Calculations
WEGEMT Graduate School; Design Techniques for high
speed craft
Safety Management Training by Shell Expro UK
Marital status Married, four children
Leisure interests Tour skating, sailing, yachting
Societies Chartered Engineer MRINA, KivI, SMR, SPE
Resume:
1987 – 2010 (Present) Working as a consultant through own company. Assisted shipyards and ship-
owners in their design and newbuilding programs. Among others, designed, built and commissioned a
series of Offshore Support Vessels and Offshore Supply vessels.
During this period also worked as a Safety Manager in the North Sea for five years.
• Assisted Shipyard de Hoop in Lobith – Housed – Houma, NL and USA in the marketing and the
design of numerous offshore support vessels and inland waterway ships
• Workfox and Workships Contractors BV, Rotterdam, NL, acting as Safety Manager for four
accommodation jack-ups, two supply vessels and two diving support vessels operating in the
North sea on the British, Norwegian and Dutch Continental Shelf.
• Commissioning the Royal Swedish Navy Submarine Rescue Vessel
• Worked together with the Royal Schelde Shipyard, Vlissingen, NL designing a Submarine rescue
Vessel for the Indian Navy

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• Designed the Megathyst / Amethyst II series of semi-submersible drilling rigs for Petrodrill / Pride
(NL and USA)
• Designed the JBF 6000 for de Hoop – Huisman, NL.
• Assisted Allseas, Delft, NL with Rules and regulations for their conversion Pipe-lay project, the
Solitaire
• Involved in the design of all newbuildings for Otto Candies, LLC, Des Allemandes, LA and Otto
Candies Mexican Investment from 2002 to 2009.
• Designed the “SIM Vessel” for ExxonMobil on behalf of Otto Candies LLC..
• Assisting Huisman-Itrec, Schiedam, NL, with the basic design package of the drilling semi-
submersible vessel JBF 10000.
• Stena Line, Gothenburg, Sweden, plan approval (steel drawings) and newbuilding supervision for
the train/car/passenger ferry Stena Jutlandica
• Assisted Heerema Offshore Services, Leiden, NL with Rules and regulations for their Newbuild
Vessel, the large crane and Pipe-lay vessel project (NBV Project).
• Assisted IHC Merwede Marine & Offshore Shipyards, Hardinxveld-Giessendam, NL with the
design of a drilling vessels and other offshore vessels.
• Assisting Heerema Offshore Services with Rules and regulations for their Newbuild Monohull
Vessel, a large crane and Pipe-lay vessel project (NMV Project).
• On behalf of Aberdeen drilling Consultants, Aberdeen, UK, performing DP Audits on Mobile
Drilling Units. DP Audits has been carried out on behalf of Cairn Energy PLC, Reliance
Industries and Petrobras, Turkey.
• Producing DP FMEA reports on behalf of MAATS, Winchester, UK, including DP Trials for
pipe-laying vessels and self propelled jack ups with DP system.
• At present cooperating with MMC – Ship Design & Marine Consulting Ltd in Gdynia, Poland,
providing engineering services to a variety of shipyards in China, Europe and the United States of
America.
1981 – 1987 Technical Director of a Shipping / Engineering company Workships / Maritime Project
engineering, Rotterdam, NL. Designing, building and commissioning five Diving Support Vessels and one
Semi Submersible for Work over and Diving Support.
1978 – 1981 Project manager at Öresundsvarvet, Landskrona in Sweden. Car ferries, Train ferries and
Offshore Diving Support Vessels

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1973 – 1978 Salén Sipping Companies, Sweden, Technical department. Design of Reefer vessels, Ro-
Ro vessels, Tankers as well as trouble shooting existing vessels.
1971 – 1973 Finnboda Varf AB, Sweden, Newbuilding department. Project manager for pure car
carrier and two hulls for a semi submersible drilling unit.
1971 – 1973 Teaching at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Naval Architecture
1971 Stockholm Rederi AB Svea, Sweden, Technical department
Papers presented
1. A New Generation of Diving Support Vessels, Offshore Technology Conference
Houston Texas USA, (OTC 1981 4088)
2. Design and Construction of a Semi Submersible Workover Vessel “Amethyst”, Floating
Structures and Offshore Operations, Wageningen Netherlands 1987.
3. Floating Work-platforms for Submarine Support, International Conference on Submarine
Systems (U 90) Stockholm Sweden 1990.
4. Megathyst – A compact Dynamically Positioned Semisub for Deep Waters, Offshore
Technology Conference Houston, Texas, USA (OTC 1999 8855)
5. Station keeping Criteria for Dynamically Positioned Vessels. MTS Dynamic Position
Conference, Houston September 2004.
6. Diesel Electric Systems for Offshore Vessels. ASNE – SNAME Symposium, National
Harbor, Maryland, February 2009.