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  Celebrating Offshore Safety: The COS Safety Leadership Award

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  Survitec Gauntlet: Protecting Offshore Crews & Assets from Valve Actuator Failure

  A pioneering new energy containment safety device, the Survitec Gauntlet, is designed to reduce the risks associated with catastrophic value actuator failures in offshore oil and gas, protecting crews and assets.

  By Eric Haun

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  Saudi Aramco Jackup Suspensions: The Story So Far…

  Teresa Wilkie, Director of RigLogix - Westwood

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  Preparing for Floating Wind – Leveraging the Oil & Gas Supply Chain

  Examining similarities and differences between the deepwater oil & gas and the emerging floating wind segment.

  By Philip Lewis, Research Director Intelatus Global Partners

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  Offshore Support Vessel (OSV) Market Recovers to Healthy Levels

  The market for offshore support vessels has experienced tremendous development in the last couple of years. And while we expect the market to continue its positive journey, we would argue that, at least on an overall basis, the market has already recovered to healthy levels at the time of writing.

  Jesper Skjong, Market Analyst, Fearnley Offshore Supply AS

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  Argeo Steams Ahead on Subsea Survey

  We recently sat with Trond Crantz, the founder and CEO of Argeo, a subsea service provider whose offerings span from acquisition to actionable data. Now, a year later, we spoke with Crantz to see what’s new with Argeo, as well as gain further insight into the company’s recent contract with Woodside Energy, new vessel and technology acquisitions, and AI/software development for data synthesis and communication.

  By Celia Konowe

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  Autonomous Survey Technology: Cutting the Umbilical

  There is a flurry of development underway to cut seafloor seismic and geotechnical survey technologies free from on-site control.

  By Wendy Laursen

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  The Strategic Shift to Subsea Tiebacks

  A potentially cost-effective, efficient means to develop remote oil & gas fields

  By Amir Garanovic

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  Offshore Wind: Inside the Financial Web

  Early 2024 saw a group of financial deals that have implications, in a broad sense, for how offshore wind projects may be financed. While offshore wind projects might be thought of as being in the ‘utility finance’ basket, they are ultimately high-risk deals that might better suit the portfolios of ‘infrastructure investment’ which, in recent years, has taken a shift towards tolerating more uncertainty when it comes to cash flows.

  By Barry Parker

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  Crew Transfer Vessels: Building the US Fleet

  A fleet of Jones Act compliant crew transfer vessels is growing in stride with the United States’ burgeoning offshore wind industry.

  By Eric Haun

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  Electrolyzers Tech Ramps Up to Meet Green Hydrogen Demands

  Electrolyzer technology is going to have to get cheaper and more scalable if it is going to enable a global green hydrogen economy.

  By Wendy Laursen

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  New Products: Safety Systems

• Source: Wood Mackenzie Lens Direct

  By the Numbers: Discoveries & Reserves

• Source: Wood Mackenzie Offshore Rig Tracker

  By the numbers: RIGS