During the fourteen year journey Peter Lovie advocated use of the FPSO and shuttle tanker solutions in the US GoM as part of his work for an FPSO contractor (Bluewater, for seven years), then with a shuttle tanker company (five years with American Shuttle Tankers, later merged into Teekay), and for the last three years with Devon Energy Corporation (50:50 partner in Cascade with Petrobras) where the first FPSO and shuttle tankers were specified, negotiated and contracted.  On Devon’s sale of its US GoM deepwater properties - and ultimately exiting the offshore business towards the end of 2009 - he was laid off and became an independent consultant on FPS commercial and technical business.  For more, visit www.lovie.org.  Peter Lovie is a registered professional engineer in Texas (PE), a Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (FRINA) in London.  His MS in applied mechanics is from University of Virginia where he was a Fulbright Scholar.  He earned his BSc in civil engineering from University of Glasgow in Scotland.  All his professional career has been in the offshore world and in Houston.  He served on the committee of SPE’s Facilities group and chaired it during 1999-2002.