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INTERVIEW CARL TROWELL, CEO, ACTEON GROUP farms where the foundations are getting more complicated. would have been what I picked until a few weeks ago, but

Rock soil parameters are important, and to give you one then I sat through a review with our engineering group where example, we’ve developed a new remotely operated sea foor we’re building a digital twin for an offshore foating wind in- drill specifcally for shallow water, unconsolidated sands rel- stallation. We’ve helped the operator engineer and model the evant to the renewables market. We’ve been doing this for whole foating system from the turbine through to the semi- years in the deep water for oil and gas, but we’ve particu- sub and the anchoring systems, and come up with a digital larly developed a new product for the renewables market. monitoring system. We’re building a digital twin so that you

The third are where we are putting a lot of time and ef- can then use it to predict failures, problems and downtime fort into is new foundation technologies and techniques, on the other units in the feld. I’ve seen a lot of PowerPoint particularly, again, for renewables. We’re taking techniques presentations on it, but I actually saw it for real and I saw it that have been developed in the oil and gas world and now on a live project. I did step back and say, “Wow, we can do applying them as the offshore wind market begins to move that.” So that’s a nice question with nice timing.

away from areas where it’s easy to just put in simple mono- piles to where you’re going to have to do more complex

Has the most recent offshore oil and gas foundations, hard rock, diffcult substrates. But also the crash from 2014 to ‘21 fundamentally fact that the turbines are just getting bigger and bigger, changed the needs of your clients, and as which means the foundations are getting more challenging.

a result, your company?

Historically Acteon saw itself as an oil feld services

Can you point to one technology, one ca- business, when in fact actually, if you step back, it’s an in- pability where you sit back as a CEO and sea infrastructure company. To some extent, a lot of the just think, “wow, we actually do that? services we provide are somewhat agnostic as to whether

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