Background
Collipp, Bruce Garfield was born on November 7, 1929 in Niagara Falls, New York, United States. Son of Planton G. and Audrey O. Collipp.
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Bruce Garfield Collipp
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Bruce Garfield Collipp, American ocean engineer, consultant. Achievements include patents for drill barge anchor system, floating drilling platform, pitch period reduction apparatus for tension leg platforms, curved conductor well template, tension leg platform anchoring method and apparatus; invention of semisubmersible drilling rig.
Education
Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1952. Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1954.
Career
Engineering offficer, Lykes Brothers, New Orleans, 1951, 53; teaching assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1954; designer, contractor, Shell Oil, 1954-1956; manager design construction and operation semisubmersible rig, Shell Oil, 1956-1961; principal lecturer floating drilling and subsea completions, Shell Oil, 1961; division engineer, Shell Oil, Los Angeles, 1962-1965; division engineer, Shell Oil, Lafayette, Louisiana, 1965-1970; senior staff researcher, Shell Oil, 1970-1974; offshore designer Gulf of Mexico, Shell Oil, 1974-1978; construction engineer, Shell Oil, 1978-1980; project manager, Shell Oil, 1980-1983; cheif naval architect, Shell Oil, 1984; designer, contractor, Shell Oil, 1985-1987. Consultant Shell Offshor Inc., Shell Oil Corporation, Exxon, World Bank, Reading and Bates Drilling C., University of Texas, Austin, Noble Denton, PMB Systems Engineering, British Petroleum, Elf Acquitaine Petroleum, Homestake Mining Inc., Columbia Broadcasting System Engineering, Shell Pecten International, Atlantic Richfield Company International, Lemle and Kelleher, since 1987. Visiting professor University Texas, Austin, since 1976.
Membership
Member marine board National Research Council, Washington, since 1993. Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve. Member National Academy Engineering, Society Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (Blakley Smith medal 1993, Offshore Energy Center Hall of Fame 1998), Sigma Xi.
Connections
Married Priscilla Jane Milbury, December 25, 1954. Children: Gary, Richard.
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Presbyterian -
Political Party
Republican