Nicolas Parsloe

Biography

Nicolas Parsloe is the newly appointed CEO of Doris Engineering, one of the world’s leaders in the domain of engineering services to oil and gas industry. He discusses the company’s reliance and uninterrupted commitment to innovation and R&D. He also offers insight into Doris‘ recent achievements and promising prospects for further international expansion.   Our aim has consistently been to propose to our clients to improve on the resources at their disposal. Once we had developed our market in the concrete platforms in the North Sea, we elected to diversify our portfolio to related areas. Our activity now comprises areas such as steel jackets, process, topsides, subsea equipment, pipelines and risers, and floating platforms. We also conducted several studies for innovative structures in advance of their time, which unfortunately were not built by us, but have recently been proposed and built by others. Our philosophy has always consisted in pushing the limits forward. One of Doris’ fundamental characteristics is that people who work here are passionate and so we are able to take on new challenges when we believe we can address an issue that remains unsolved, just like in the case of deep water riser towers which we developed for Girassol. How much do you rely on innovation to help Doris develop? R&D has always been at the heart of our philosophy. France is always innovative as French people are very keen on mathematics and physics and take pride in developing cutting-edge solutions. Doris boasts very bright and competent young professionals. When we decided to expand beyond existing frontiers, there was no way of calculating the structures required for those projects. We thus had to develop our own programs and software. For instance, we conceived dynamic analyses of very slender steel structures over 30 years ago. Our R&D department enabled us not just to find new ideas but also to be able to address the problem, analyze it and come up with a solution. In 2006, Doris earned the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Award. What specific achievements did it reward?  

Research Interest

engineering