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Editor’s Note ast month COVID-19 prompted the world and its

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John C. O’Malley lessly thanks to our IT crew, and to date all are healthy, accounted for and operating at [email protected] 120% capacity.

Simultaneous to the COVID-19 scare was a precipitous plunge in oil prices, again, fueled

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Gregory R. Trauthwein by lack of demand and a spat between Russia and Saudi Arabia which fooded the world [email protected] with oil exactly when it was not needed. I think it safe to say that this is cumulatively the

Contributing Writers very defnition of a ‘Black Swan’ event.

Justin Manley, U.S.

The good news? This crisis will end, and when we come out on the other side the work

Elaine Maslin, Aberdeen

Tom Mulligan, Ireland being conducted by many of the people reading these pages will be more important than

Claudio Paschoa, Brazil ever to help facilitate the fow of commerce.

William Stoichevski, Oslo

For now though, our daily lives and work routines have been fipped upside down, and

Production Manager it will be most interesting to see when we return to normal, and indeed more fascinating

Irina Vasilets to see what that new normal looks like. From Oceanology International to OTC, there are [email protected] dozens of postponed and cancelled events, events traditionally used to launch new prod-

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