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EDITOR’S LETTER

In business and life, I aim to simplify.

While I’m not an engineer, trust that I know there is nothing ‘simple’ about the process of effectively, effciently discovering and recovering energy in the offshore environ- V ol. 50 No. 3

ISSN 0305-876x USPS# 017-058 ment. But with all of noise consistently swirling around and within this industry – from geopolitical to environ- 118 East 25th Street, mental to fnancial to legislative and all stops in between –

New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 477-6700; fax: (212) 254-6271 to me the ‘simplifcation’ of all matters offshore energy comes www.OEDigital.com down to people like Calvin Norton, a recently retired, 60-year employee of Friede & Goldman who is the walking defnition

EDITORIAL

GREGORY R. TRAUTHWEIN of ‘An Engineering Life.’

Editor & Publisher

We had the pleasure to host Norton recently on a video inter-

AMIR GARANOVIC

Managing Editor view for Offshore Engineer TV, and he offered a level of insight [email protected] and anecdotes that you can only fnd by talking to someone

BARRY PARKER, New York

WENDY LAURSEN, Australia that has honed his craft for six decades. Norton was a budding

PHILIP LEWIS, U.K.

engineer when the business of offshore oil and gas exploration was literally in its infancy, and along the way he has worked and

PRODUCTION / GRAPHIC DESIGN

NICOLE VENTIMIGLIA lived through the industry’s myriad peaks and troughs. He dis- [email protected] cuss the successes, the tragedies and what he sees as the future in

SALES offshore energy in his expansive interview. Watch the video for

TERRY BREESE, VP Sales +1 (561) 732-1185 | [email protected] the story in Norton’s own words, or read the abridged version in

JOHN CAGNI this edition: “From Swamp Rigs to Floating Wind: Calvin Norton [email protected] | +1 631-472-2715

Refects on 60 Years of Offshore Engineering.”

FRANK COVELLA [email protected] | +1 561-732-1659

In looking at the future, the ‘green’ side of offshore energy continues to be a driver for technology evolution. Wendy Laurs-

MIKE KOZLOWSKI [email protected] | +1 561-733-2477 en reports in her feature “Biofouling Challenges Plague Offshore

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