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ize the whole system than we expected,

Trond, can you give us a by-the- used today?

but that paid off when we started the ? rst

We saw the offshore energy [vessel] numbers look at Argeo today?

We now have 50 employees, and since project in November (2022), which was market tightening up in early 2022 [as for our Norwegian renewable company. more vessels went back to work, mean- the start of April 2021 we have amassed

Our ? rst USV is fully uncrewed, small ing the ability to put our containerized four AUVs. Two of them are from Tele- enough to easily ship it anywhere. The equipment onto a vessel of opportunity dyne (SeaRaptor 6000) and also a brand new Hugin 6000 from Kongsberg. We client was very satis? ed, as it provided would suffer]. We started the [vessel fantastic performance and excellent data.

search] process in Q2 2022, to identify have also commercialized our ? rst USV the right vessel for the job, [we found as well, to cover the near shore shallow it and] we have the option to buy the

Looking at the crewed vessel side, water, typical offshore wind market. vessel. It is an ultra-deep water activity

I saw with interest that you took center. So it’s a sub sea and IMR sur-

Can you give us a quick breakdown on a ? ve-year bareboat charter vey vessel, predominantly intended for of the markets that you serve? for the RGO searcher. What was

South America, West Africa, the Ca-

Most of our management probably spent the impetus, and how is it being ribbean, and also the deep sea mineral half a lifetime in oil and gas. So, the off- shore energy market, if you divide that in half by oil and gas and offshore wind, those two are obviously the larger ones.

Of those, I would say that oil and gas is probably 60-70%. But we are seeing a signi? cant uptick in offshore wind as well, especially in Europe, but also in the US.

And then, we are probably one of very few companies who can maybe contrib- a an n nd d i is s w we el ll l e e e ex x x xp pe e e er r r ri i ie e e en n nc c c ce e e ed u u u us s si i i in n ng g g t t t th h h h h he e e Hu ug gi in n 6 6000 0 AUV.

ute both on an environmental side, and

Photo courtesy Argeo the geological assessment side in terms of the deepsea mineral market, which is also coming strong and steady.

Do you see a changing request or demand for automation, for ser- vices, for uncrewed services?

That’s a good question. I see that there is a lot of interest. Many companies would like to see more of this, but at the same time there are a lot of [legislative] questions that still need to be answered, and we need to be careful not taking on too much of the CapEx responsibility.

We can see that with some of the tools that we already employ, we can increase ef? ciency by a multiple of ? ve or six, maybe even more in super deep water.

What we, as a company, are working on is building a bridge between our present situation and what is to come.

On the autonomy topic, Argeo Ar- gus made headlines in mid-2022, as the ? rst uncrewed remotely-super- vised survey and inspection vessel.

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