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pumps, it seems. So it’s the 45 kW ver- ner,” said Fuglesang, adding that some rate several Omnirise units. tem will go through an industry qualify- sion for now, and oil company interest in 520 tons of weight need not be installed, “It’s not a breakthrough but two or ing stage, and Fuglesang hopes pump it has already brought orders for a couple along with its complement of umbilical three proven technologies,” said Fugle- orders will follow. A year after that, “If hundred units. that can be $1.5 million per kilometer: sang. “We’re happy and proud to stand all goes according to plan,” a multiphase

Unlike some of the competition, Fu- just a single cable to a switch and a low- on the shoulders of others.” (oil, gas and water at once) pump will be glesangs and NEBB have established pressure casing make it easy to incorpo- In early 2018, the hydro-magnetic sys- quali? ed. pump, VSD and controls business with other industries. Apart from the military,

Innovation | Safety | Performance

Fuglesangs pumps serve gas and water companies. Subsea mining looks prom- ising. NEBB’s controls business serves

STATUTORY COMPLIANCE FOR TANKERS an increasingly large swathe of the bur- geoning Norwegian land-based process industry, including mining, but also the digitized machinery of automated mass production. Siemens, National Instru- ments and Schneider are understood to be customers and competitors.

Helping NEBB meet the demand are a pool of digitizing engineers in Sko- pje, Macedonia, a forgotten engineer-

DIRECT DAMAGE STABILITY

TM ing hub of the former Yugoslavia. The

TM & CargoMax rest of Europe has been stripped clean of such brainpower: “We’re ? nding the engineers the others missed,” said CEO

Risoy. “When the trend shifts, we have

USER DRIVEN | ENDORSED WORLDWIDE: Herbert-ABS other areas we can serve (with the talent

TM

CargoMax systems with the Direct Damage Stability pool).” For now, however, there are re- option have been approved by IACS Classifcation gasi? cation controls offshore and SCA-

Societies for decades. Meet the new IMO MARPOL, IBC,

DA work for moon-pool controls.

BC, GC & IGC requirements for mandatory verifcation

Omnirise’s Rise instruments onboard new and existing tankers.

Fuglesang, meanwhile, is proud of the 28 pumps installed for dredging and drilling operations worldwide. After the www.herbert-abs.com success of seabed tests in Oslo, the Om- nirise series, too, can target an estimated 1,500 subsea ? elds that could bene? t from 20 percent more IOR. “One percent IOR can be a billion kro-

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