296 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine ENERGY, ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING structures. As a trailblazer in his specialty, he has also published extensively on topics in the field. Dr. Wybro sold Sea Engineering to Worley in 2007 and remained with the company until his retirement in 2009. He continues to pursue occasional consulting and speaking projects but dedicates the majority of his time to sailing with his wife. In 2020, he published “Adventures of Sailboat Marco Polo: How One Couple Prepared for and Lived Their Cruising Dream,” a memoir detailing their adventures. Pieter Wybro celebrates 45 years of success in ocean engineering. Born in Singapore, he spent his life traveling and living across the globe and discovered a love of sailing and the sea in Lebanon. He pursued undergraduate study at the University of Virginia, where he earned a bachelor’s degree and was awarded both a master’s degree and PhD in ocean engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. After spending six years working with the Getty Oil Company, Dr. Wybro opened his own ocean engineering firm, Sea Engineering, in 1984. Through Sea Engineering, he participated in the development of the Marco Polo Platform, which was awarded the Project of the Year at the Offshore Technology Conference. Throughout his career, he worked on platforms throughout Indonesia, the Mediterranean, the West coast of Africa and the North Sea. Among Dr. Wybro’s greatest accomplishments with Sea Engineering was the Joliet Tension Leg Platform, the deepest platform in the world at the time, located in the Gulf of Mexico, for Conoco Inc, creating a new standard for deep-sea PIETER WYBRO PRINCIPAL OWNER (RETIRED) Worley Houston, TX
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