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FLOATING WIND INTERVIEW WITH ACTEON CCO BARRY PARSONS

What we do at Acteon is sector agnostic. At the end of the day, we’re providing services for marine infrastructure. If there happens to be a wind turbine, or an oil and gas production platform, or a fsh farm, or some sort of technology that you and I haven’t even dreamt of yet at the top of that infrastructure, it doesn’t fundamentally change the solution that we’re providing.”

Barry Parsons,

Chief Commercial Officer,

Acteon Group 2,200 employees staffng 104 locations in 21 countries. “Tis is not a small, kind of, maybe

Most of its engineered solutions were born in offshore thing; this is big, it’s global and it’s oil and gas, with many of its technologies having ready applications in the burgeoning offshore wind sector, too. happening right now.”

Barry Parsons is succinct in his summation of foating off- Set up across three operating divisions – Data and Robot- shore wind, a renewable solution that is widely touted to be ics; Engineering, Moorings and Foundations; and Energy the future of offshore wind energy, premised on the fexibility Services – Parsons said “The connecting DNA is that we to move the turbines further offshore to deeper waters where provide services to assess, design, build, install, inspect, an estimated 80% of the wind power potential resides. maintain and remove marine infrastructure.”

As with any market promise, there is also peril, and in his That installed base is centered on offshore oil and gas, but recent interview with Offshore Engineer TV Parsons is quick it is changing. Today, 25% of Acteon Group’s business is to discuss not only the market potential but the hurdles that outside of oil and gas – predominately focused on offshore will need to be cleared to fully realize this potential. But make wind – “and at last count, the offshore wind installations no mistake, Parsons and his Acteon team are bullish on the are growing at around 22-25% annually,” said Parsons. future of foating wind, with the organization offering an en- To date Acteon has installed approximately 2,500 off- viable breadth and depth of offshore engineering experience shore wind turbine foundations; it has supported approxi- and technologies to effciently, effectively build and service mately 1500 additional mooring spreads offshore, as well offshore foating wind felds globally, cradle to grave. as approximately 800 drilling campaigns and more than 300 decommissioning projects.

While many companies born in the oil and gas industry

Acteon Group: By the Numbers

The $700m Acteon Group has a global footprint, with face challenges in leveraging that experience, engineering 8 OFFSHORE ENGINEER OEDIGITAL.COM