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EDITOR’S LETTER

Opportunities in Wind Abound hile COVID has delayed or taken away so many aspects of our daily professional lives, from a pure business perspective it is interesting to see many of the manifestations as a result. In our

W regular interviews with business and technology leaders across the sector, the picture painted is broadly similar: the frst two months of March and

April 2020 was like a sucker punch to the gut; no one really knew what happened and it was diffcult to catch your breath. ‘Uncertainty’ was the only known regarding the future. After that, though, people and businesses globally do what they’ve done since the beginning of time: they learn, they adapt, they transform and ultimately, they get back to business. This does minimize the pandemic nor imply it has not been without monumental challenge or sacrifce, personal and professional.

One aspect that I personally miss is the one-on-one interaction with people in the industry. I’m somewhat old school in this respect, as I’ve traveled the globe for more than 30 years and without question, the best results, the best stories, invariably came from taking the time to meet with an executive, a company, in their place of business. That in-person process came with a number of drawbacks, namely the time and cost to fy to distant places, a process that has been replaced for now with a seemingly endless string of video calls and interviews. There are certain advantages, with our cover interview with Torgeir Ramstad, CEO, OHT, as a prime example.

On the day I interviewed Ramstad for our Offshore Engineer TV web channel, I had already “traveled” for interviews to Shanghai and Germany, before hitting Norway for our OHT interview and fnishing in Vancouver, BC. And that was before lunch!

Ramstad was an insightful and interesting interview, as I think you’ll agree, as he has is the past fve years help to pivot OHT from a company focused mainly on

OEDigital.com offshore oil and gas to a company headed toward a nearly pure offshore wind player, 220,887 building on spec a pair of technologically advanced and innovative maritime assets monthly pageviews designed to give it a leg up in the global push toward offshore wind. Starting on page 36 read about OHT’s transformation, including its role in helping to lay the foundation, literally, for the world’s largest offshore windfarm: Dogger Bank.

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Gregory R. Trauthwein

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