Farewell Timo
We pay tribute to Timo Lehtinen (1958 – 2008) whose creativity and hard work had led to the development of the high standards in spar, deepwater, mooring systems engineering that we now take for granted.
 | Timo Lehtinen Born in Finland in 1958, Timo Lehtinen graduated as a Naval Architect (MSc) in 1986. Working first in the Marine Technology center of the biggest Finnish ship building and offshore company Rauma-Repola (now Technip Offshore Finland), he was seconded in 1990 to work with the Spars development team at the DOT office in Los Angeles. After two years he moved to Houston in the present Technip office.
He became an enthusiastic developer of deep water mooring systems for spars. His work included all the 13 Spar projects which the company has delivered so far, starting from Neptune in 1996 till Perdido this year. By constantly demanding the best from mooring component vendors, he set the performance standard for spar mooring equipment materials and quality.
As Brian Green, managing director, First Subsea recalls, "Timo Lehtinen was our mentor. In the four short years that I knew him, he helped me to understand the mooring business and was always there when I needed him. It would be fair to say that Timo transformed our business with his constant input and requests to improve our quality and our technical performance. He practically wrote our material specification and when we needed to change it to meet the new challenges, he supported us and cajolled us to even higher performance."
Diagnosed with cancer in 2002, Timo Lehtinen continued his work at Technip Offshore. He never lost his optimistic and joyful attitude and worked on full speed until the end; the cancer finally took him at the beginning of July this year.
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