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EDITOR’S LETTER

Striking a Balance alancing Act is the apt description of our interview with Acteon CEO

Carl Trowell, who oversees a family of brands, many of which are closely associated with the offshore oil and gas sector. Like many executives in the sector, Trowell is engaged in a balancing act of sorts, serving traditional oil

B and gas customers while eying opportunities to tweak and leverage existing technologies for new and emerging markets. In assessing the tools in his toolbelt, Trowel reckons that Acteon is an in-sea infrastructure company, rather than tied to any one industry, and he is unabashedly bullish on the opportunities he sees ahead. “There’s going to be more infrastructure going into the sea in the next decade from offshore wind than went in throughout the whole lifetime of oil and gas. If you just look at the number of units, the number of installations, and you start moving to foating wind, it’s going to be off the scale ... we’re at the beginning of what will be a mega cycle of investment.”

Balancing Act is also an apt description for Offshore Engineer and the family of electronic and social media brands under our guise. While we, like you, have been watching and living the digital evolution, the advent of COVID took this evolution and turned it into a revolution, putting digital on a steroid-infused fast track.

I’ve been in the publishing business for 30+ years, starting when the internet and email weren’t really ‘a thing’ in our business lives. To this day I still consider myself a paper guy, as it remains my preferred media to consume information. However, the reality is far from that: yes, I still get the Wall Street Journal delivered on my driveway, primarily because it’s one of my black lab’s jobs of the day to fetch and get the reward.

But the reality is I read WSJ on my app while I’m still in bed and the dog’s snoring!

With this edition Offshore Engineer, the magazine, is going all-digital, offering our global and mobile readership more ways to receive information. In reality, this is only a slight tweak in the overall package, as via OEDigital.com, AOGDigital.com, our various

Check out the 2023 eNews and our social channels, the majority of our contact on a daily basis with you is

Media Kit via the QR coming digitally. Counting our websites, eMagazines, eNews, mobile apps and social

Code Below networks we have a cumulative global audience approaching half a million (492,475 to be exact). Through a relentless effort online by Managing Editor Bato Tomic, we have more than 51,000 followers alone on our Offshore Engineer LinkedIn page.

While the change is natural, the one thing that does not change is the commitment of the Offshore Engineer staff to deliver to you the same great content, how you want, where you want it, 24/7/365.

Gregory R. Trauthwein

Editor & Publisher [email protected] m: +1-516.810.7405

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