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SUBSEA UTC 2023 “Many of us have been around for a lot of conferences over the years, and I would say that UTC is one of the few conferences where you see that the operators are taking a big part of the conference, both as presenters but also as regular delegates. There is a very high probability that you’ll meet your end client, the operator, at UTC.” – Stig Instanes,

Business Development Manager,

TechnipFMC; Board Chairman of the

Underwater Technology Foundation in the space can leverage their own experience to broaden renewable technology within the ocean space.” – not replace – their work in discovering a and recover- “The technical program is always what's been the key ing fossil fuels. “We still have a lot to do when it comes to to the UT C,” said Vesterkjær. “Learning what's been go- traditional oil and gas subsea developments, and that will ing on in the industry, learning about breakthroughs and be covered,” said Instanes. But increasingly, too, there is a the projects.” push to leverage traditional offshore oil and gas subsea tech- UTC attracts participants from around the world, and nologies for ‘new’ energy and systems, from foating wind Vesterkjær sees this as a positive, allowing all to learn from to hydrogen to carbon capture and storage. “More and the experiences, triumphs and failures from colleagues half more we see that carbon capture and storage is relevant for a world away. subsea. I think all of us in the supply chain are ramping up “In Norway and Europe you have a lot of incentives for that, and there are quite a few technical presentations on and focus on how we can have a more sustainable energy that theme” together with the other emerging technologies. production,” said Vesterkjær. “But for it to be sustainable, “This conference is dedicated to underwater technology it's important that we address the topics that we have of within the energy space, and right now there is an energy the trilemma; where you have energy security, energy af- crunch,” said Instanes. “This year’s topic, securing global fordability and energy sustainability, and see that it's also a energy, is highly relevant for all of us.” proftable business.”

With energy security and the environment competing By its very nature, the subsea sector must invent, engi- as the prime topics, Instanes said “we need to harvest en- neer and deliver products and systems that are robust and ergy in the ocean space if we are going to succeed with reliable, traditionally focused on the offshore oil and gas this energy transformation. We are now looking into how sector. The solutions that exist are not exclusively for oil traditional oil and gas underwater technology can enable and gas production, but also for methods of installation; 56 OFFSHORE ENGINEER OEDIGITAL.COM