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Gregory R. Trauthwein

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John C. O’Malley sion on the burning topics of the day and the way forward in 2016 and far beyond. First [email protected] and foremost, a note of thanks to Michael Jones and Greg Murphy, new Executive Director of The Maritime Alliance, for the inclusion of Marine Technology Reporter in this high-

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Gregory R. Trauthwein value event. I travel extensively throughout the year to events large and small, and I can [email protected] say without hesitation that the formula created for this event in Southern California is a

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So what is the “View from the Top” you may wonder? Coming in the ? rst edition of

MTR in 2016 will be a full recounting of the panel, but until then the word of day is ‘un-

Contributing Editors certainty.’ Despite the fact that oil is (forgive the pun) in the tank with no perceptible light

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Claudio Paschoa, Brazil at the end of the tunnel, there remains an upbeat vibe. This premised on the fact that:

William Stoichevski, Norway

Production Manager [A] Energy markets will eventually rebound, and that,

Irina Tabakina [email protected] [B] While there is no substitute for a vibrant and healthy offshore business, there are plenty of opportunities available for ef? cient, cost effective technologies.

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One such opportunity is featured on our cover, as Eric Haun recently visited with

Ocean Power Technologies to discover how this company is seeking to crack the conun-

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Mark O’Malley drum of providing reliable, persistent power to surface and subsea assets working at sea [email protected] (see story page 14).

Another comes from perhaps the most unlikely place: Norway. Norway has been hit

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Vladimir Bibik hard with the oil downturn, but William Stoichevski, our man in Oslo, found some opti- [email protected] mism in the pipe lay, dredging and cable sectors (see story page 38).

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