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EDWARD E. HORTON
Pages 194-199

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From page 195...
... RANDOLPH PAULLING E DWARD EVERETT HORTON, one of the most creative and innovative engineers in the offshore oil and gas industry, died at the age of 87 on August 13, 2015, in Houston, Texas. He was born November 13, 1927, in San Gabriel, California, to Winter David and Edith Kendall Horton.
From page 196...
... Unfortunately, before the project could achieve its goal, it was cancelled because of rapid cost escalation. It nevertheless generated much fundamental knowledge and engineering experience that finds use today in the design of floating platforms used for oil drilling and production in deep water.
From page 197...
... It would be large enough to ensure that scale effects on hydrodynamic forces would be minimized yet small enough that the expected wave conditions in the area of testing would represent severe storm seas at full scale. It was equipped with instruments to record waves, platform motions, anchor tensions, and internal structural forces.
From page 198...
... He was a member of the American Bureau of Shipping Offshore Technical Committee, Marine Technology Society, American Concrete Institute, Yale Alumni Association, and Advancement Committee of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of Rice University. Ed was as original and creative in his private life as in his business.
From page 199...
... He was preceded in death by his first wife, Janet Durst Horton.


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