Noted offshore technical pioneer Edward E. Horton III passed away in Houston in August, at age 87. The Yale and USC graduate, petroleum engineer and U.S. Navy veteran was principal engineer for Project Mohole in 1961, the original deepwater drilling project of the National Academy of Science.
During his career he helped develop first-generation floating systems and is a named inventor of standard concepts such as the spar and tension-leg platform.
He received the lifetime achievement award at OTC in 1997 and was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2002. In 2008 he was named an Offshore Pioneer by the Offshore Energy Center in Galveston.
Horton was most recently on the advisory board of the American Bureau of Shipping’s offshore technical committee and Rice University’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.
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