Richard D'Souza

Richard D'Souza is president of Richard B Offshore LLC and a floating production and wind energy consultant. In his 50 years of experience (1974-present), he has executed major offshore field developments in every producing region across the globe. As a deepwater pioneer, he has progressed developments from 300-m to 3,000-m water depths.

He was responsible for creating and sustaining premier multi-discipline upstream and downstream engineering and consulting companies: Omega Marine, Aker Engineering, Halliburton Deepwater and KBR/Granherne as well as recruiting and mentoring three generations of offshore engineers. 

He has also authored 90 technical papers documenting deepwater technology and history for major conferences (OTC, DOT, SNAME), many of which have been excerpted in Offshore magazine.

He has a bachelor's degree in naval architecture from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He also has a master's degree in ship structures from the University of Michigan as well as a master's degree in civil engineering from Tulane University.

D'Souza is also a member of Offshore's 2026 Editorial Advisory Board.