This conference received 1362 abstracts from around the world in the successful organization of the 20th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE-2010), Beijing, China, June 20 − 26, 2010. The Conference featured 149 sessions of refereed papers and 6 plenary sessions from more than 50 countries including the ISOPE specialty symposia, part of ISOPE-2010 Conference.