Jean Audibert

Specialties: Piled, gravity base and hybrid foundations, seafloor-pipeline/flowline/riser interaction, site characterization

A Geotechnical Consultant with over 40 years of worldwide professional engineering experience both onshore and offshore, serving the oil and gas industry, power industry, petrochemical industry, and both the private and government sectors.

Dr. Audibert is a recognized authority in the area of offshore geotechnical engineering, including foundation design for fixed and mobile platforms, gravity base structures, and floating platforms.

• Independent Consultant to the oil & gas industry
• Staff contractor at ExxonMobil in Houston, Texas
• Formerly, VP of Engineering, Fugro-McClelland Marine Geosciences, Inc.
• B.S., engineering, Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Arts et Metiers, Paris, 1968
• Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Duke University, 1972
• Participated as main investigator or director in State-of-Practice and State-of-the-Art studies for deepwater platforms, offshore pile-supported and gravity structures and State-of-Art reviews on pile group foundations and on pile foundations in calcareous soil.
• Experience: 37+ years' foundation design, in situ testing, tool development, certification of platforms, pipeline routing and engineering, feasibility studies, pile load tests, and research and development studies.