Jim Brekke

President and Owner, Brekke Offshore Consulting
Jim Brekke

Jim Brekke

President and Owner, Brekke Offshore Consulting

Biography

Workshop: Using Jack-up Renewable Energy Guidelines to Establish SSA Protocols on OSW Farms

Jim Brekke is an independent consultant with forty years of experience in the offshore oil and gas industry focused on mobile offshore drilling units (MODUs). During his career, Jim served in management and technical positions while at ABS, Exxon, and Transocean where for fourteen years he was Director of Marine Support covering the world’s largest MODU fleet, including sixty jack-ups. Jim was awarded the ASCE OTC Hall of Fame Award for a paper on jack-ups judged to have pioneering innovation and lasting impact. In 2019, Jim took the position of JIP Chair of the SNAME J-REG JIP. He is past chair of the SNAME Offshore T&R Committee and a Fellow of SNAME.