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Michelle Howard [email protected] stion uestion uestions regarding the future price direction of energy the new IMO sulfur cap looming in 2020. When the

Editorial ome come l come less frequently these days, seemingly as the new rule on clean fuel was announced late last year, we

Tom Mulligan - UK

Claudio Paschoa - Brazil coll collecti collective industry has settled on the so-called ‘new immediately tapped our Tom Mulligan to address the

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William Stoichevski - Norway norm.’ n norm.’ (Though personally, I think that is somewhat of a changing fuel regulation from every angle. In a continu- misnom misnom misnomer, as in the business of energy production there ation of that series, this month Mulligan, starting on

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Irina Vasilets [email protected] is no ‘norm.’) Regardless of your station in the offshore page 22, looks at the new rule from the point of view of

Nicole Ventimiglia [email protected] energy business chain, be assured of a few things: the fuel and lube producers, with insights on how sev-

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Mark O’Malley, Marketing Manager • The low-price pain points will continue for the eral majors are ramping efforts to ensure that no matter

Esther Rothenberger, Accounting foreseeable future, particularly as more cost-ef? cient the fuel chosen, it will be readily available and compli-

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Vladimir Bibik land-based methods continue to be found; ant with current machinery needs come 2020.

Emin Yuce • The mantra at energy exploration companies is cost While the industry collectively laments the rapidity cutting and control. Technologies that are proven to in- of the new fuel rule coming in 2020, it simultaneously

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Kathleen Hickey [email protected] novate and reduce costs will win. watches with disdain as a rule demanding the most ex- • Just when everyone has settled on the new reality, pensive ship re? t program in the history of the industry

Sales something will happen that will send the price soaring – that of course being the Ballast Water Management

Lucia Annunziata [email protected] +1 212 477 6700 ext 6220 again. issue – drags on well into its second decade.

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The Floating Production sector of offshore energy has While the IMO rule is set to enter force in September +1 561 732 1185 been particularly impacted, as quite frankly it represents 2017 and the United States Coast Guard is easing the

John Cagni [email protected] 631-472-2715 +1 one of the most costly means to extract and deliver logjam of uncertainty with three approved systems to

Frank Covella [email protected] +1 561 732 1659 energy. While the sector has predictably slowed, Jim date, there remain some troubling questions surround-

Mitch Engel [email protected]

McCaul of IMA/World Energy Reports – who has ing the new technology and onboard process, namely +1 561 732 0312 studied this global market segment in intimate detail for the ef? cient means and manner to sample ballast water

Mike Kozlowski [email protected] +1 561 733 2477 more than 20 years – ? nds that while it is a tad early to to ensure that the systems are performing 24/7/365 as

Jean Vertucci [email protected] +1 212 477 6700 ext 6210 be bullish, there are signs of life in the sector. His report promised. starts on page 42. Joe Keefe was in Long Beach last month for yet

Related to energy production is, of course, energy another Ballast Water Management ‘summit’, and raises

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