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I An Overview of R & D, Past, Present and Future.- 1 Sources of funding for research and development in oil and gas technology.- 2 The funding of the Hydra-Lok swage pile connection development.- 3 The drill support tooling module project.- II Reassessment of Standards and Operating Practices.- 4 Review of standards, codes, requirements and regulations—their impact on underwater projects.- 5 Standardization—Norwegian experience by Nifo—Norsk Industriforening for Oljeselskap.- 6 Code of practice for the safe and efficient operation of remotely operated vehicles.- 7 Adapting ROV operations procedures to today’s market.- 8 Using project management as a tool—a necessity in today’s underwater contracting industry.- 9 The CSWIP scheme: a personal view from the Chairman of the Board.- III Saturation Diving.- 10 Higher efficiency through improved diver transportation.- 11 Standards for underwater breathing apparatus.- 12 Monitoring of bacterial status and antibacterial cleaning of saturation diving systems.- 13 HYDRA 8: Pre-commercial hydrogen diving project.- 14 Diver selection for deep dives (below 300 msw).- 15 Saturation diving: diving deeper than 300m.- IV Diving Shallower Than 50m.- 16 Mathematical modeling of tissue bubble dynamics during decompression.- 17 An evaluation of automatic recording of commercial air-diving data.- 18 Civil engineering working practices and standards.- 19 The future of diver training.- 20 Decompression sickness in commercial air divers. The present status of the Shields/Lee report.- 21 Clinical presentations and significance of decompresssion sickness: an analysis of incidents from commercial diving operations 1977–87.- V Developments in Underwater Intervention(Including Robotic Systems).- 22 Design installation and operation ofan ROV- operated subsea production system in 450 msw.- 23 The role of two new autonomous diving systems in underwater intervention.- 24 Wellman: the subsea intervention system.- 25 An overview of current projects in the field of diverless subsea production systems.- 26 Advanced robotics under water: the DTI initiative.- 27 New developments in flooded member detection.- 28 Progress of automation in remote intervention tasks.- 29 Operational automatic hyperbaric welding.- VI Diversification and Innovation—Adapting to Change.- 30 Resources from the sea programme—a technical challenge.- 31 The return of the manned submersible—a new dawn?.- 32 Seabed contact vehicles.- 33 Diversification and innovation: adapting to change—or the view of one small business.- 34 University/Industry/Government Interfaces—Joint R & D Projects—Do They Work?.