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SUBSEA SURVEYS

When we started all of this, we knew that we could choose to be one of the best. That’s always a strategy, but we chose to be unique in what we do and to bring something new to the ? eld.

Trond Crantz,

Founder & CEO of Arego

Tobago as part of a contract with Woodside Energy.

Trond, welcome back. We did a feature on you

If someone had told me one year ago that what we would about a year ago in our March-April edition. What’s be doing now, I wouldn’t have believed it. I’d think it would new for Argeo since?

be impossible, but there’s been fantastic teamwork and spirit

It’s been a lot, I can tell you. It seems like the last time I spoke with MTR, it was two, three years ago now—that’s how much throughout the company, which has obviously grown. We has happened. But at the same time, we’re still ? nding our have now 80 employees, both onshore and offshore, and that feet. A year ago, we had just acquired Argeo Searcher, which continues to grow as we develop more projects and techno- was one of our ? rst subsea survey vessels and had started our logical advancements. ? rst ultra-deep-water projects. And since then, we’ve added

Out of all those projects you mentioned, is there so much more. The Searcher has completed several hallmark one that was either your favorite or one that chal- projects for prominent customers like the Norwegian Petro- lenged Argeo? leum Directorate, Shell in Nigeria and the National Centre for

That’s the thing—they almost all are because a lot of what

Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR) in the Indian Ocean.

we are doing comes from teamwork. And of course, when

We’ve rolled out our newest AUV line with Hugin Superi- ors and bought our newest subsea vessel, the Venture, from you’re moving into this, you’re apprehensive. Will it work as

Shearwater while also bringing them in as a shareholder. The we have tested? Will it give the results that we hoped it would?

With NCPOR, we’re trying to prove that these sensors can be

Venture was used by TotalEnergies for their Namibia develop- used for identifying mineral resources at nearly 6,000 meters, ment project Venus and is mobilized there, as we speak. We’ve also commercialized and proven the Argeo LISTEN system which is basically unheard of. We’ve spent a lot of time de- for subsea integrity inspections and proven its capability as a veloping the sensor system and when something works, it’s a special moment for everyone involved, from the technology deep-sea mineral detection and resource estimation tool. Last- ly, the Searcher is active in the Calypso ? eld in Trinidad and developers to the operators and so forth. 30 May/June 2024

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