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Acteon

Norwich, England www.acteon.com

Dr. Carl Trowell, President/CEO

No. of Employees: 2000

Established in 1989, the Acteon business developed organically through the 1990s, then later through targeted acquisitions and a unique business model. Acteon now brings together a comprehensive suite of branded marine and subsea services that use leading complementary technologies and capabilities from across a range of interconnected disci- plines. Acteon solutions simplify the interface between Acteon and customers that need more than one of its operating companies’ products or services to address their subsea challenges, whatever their scale and complexity. Each combination is packaged as a customer-spe- ci? c integrated service and delivered through a single Acteon point of contact under a single contract.

In 2019, Acteon expanded its reach in the re- newables ? eld through a collaborative agree- ment with Ocean Power Technologies. The partnership included the deployment of OPT’s

PowerBuoy system, and surveillance and monitoring technology and a turnkey moor- ing and deployment solution provided respec- tively by Acteon operating companies, Pulse

Structural Monitoring and InterMoor. Last year, Acteon also expanded the global reach

Management solution, iSite, provides innovative dimen- of its survey business through the acquisition sional control and virtual asset management solutions. It of TerraSond, a multidisciplinary geospatial and geophysi- cal business, and with offshore marine geotechnical and allows clients to remotely manage any assets from their desktop, driving cost out of offshore planning and commu- geophysical survey company Benthic.

Headquartered in Houston, Benthic adds deepwater and nication. • Acteon’s own subsea integrity engineering services ultra-deepwater surveying capabilities to Acteon through its provider, Clarus Subsea Integrity Inc., who develop solu- proprietary portable remotely operated drill (PROD) tech- tions by ef? ciently interpreting data to help operators make nology. better-informed decisions in operating their assets. Clarus

Work has recently been executed in South America in wa- offers a unique data management solution in iCUE, a user- ter depths exceeding 2100 m, and the latest equipment up- grades enable operations in depths up to 4000 m, and there friendly web-based integrity management portal that allows are plans to expand services to include offshore wind and structured data organisation and provides visual summaries of integrity information such as risks, anomalies, inspection scienti? c research. plans and reports, condition monitoring KPIs, and more.

Wholistically, the company focuses on digital technolo- • Acteon offers a wide range of innovative and robust gies, technology implementation and research and develop- ment advances, which aim to transform project economics instruments and systems for offshore asset installation, in- spection and monitoring, with the integrity and life-of-? eld and operational ef? ciency. • Acteon company UTEC’s Proprietary Virtual Asset of the offshore structure in mind.

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