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INTERVIEW SUBSEA SURVEY “We have an in-house data platform called Argeo

SCOPE that integrates all the data from our LEDs, allowing both our internal employees and our clients to interact with the data.

We’ve also made good use of Elon Musk’s Starlink to get data to shore, which has been an enormous step forward in terms of access to our vessels.” – Trond Crantz,

Founder & CEO of Arego as well. Combining in-house engineering and technology fully integrated our own Argeo LISTEN system. The supe- into production systems and doing those types of job ten riority of the AUV lies in the production facility of the ve- times faster with superior quality—that's Argeo. And as we hicle (6000m) dual-HISAS which doubles the swath with became good at that, we also said that, "Okay. I think the and production speed, CathX cameras and laser, and the customer would like us to deliver our products from our endurance of up to 60 hrs of real acquisition time. It is the feld units to have rapid answers to their questions.” That most advanced AUV on the market to date, hands down.

makes us a bit special, I hope.

As an expert in the field, what do you see as the

Let’s switch gears to dive into your recent future of ocean surveying and subsea sensing?

projects, including the contract with Wood- How long is a rope? There's a huge and very fast cycle of side Energy. Can you tell me a little bit about technology, which is ongoing. It never stops. We’ll see big

Argeo's role in that, what value it brings to changes in terms of the vehicles we use, what they can do, you, and the vehicle being used? and how they can achieve the things that they do. I think

Absolutely. We've known Woodside for some time and that’s what everyone sees. But we’re thinking, more specifcal- we've been talking with them about the Calypso feld. Our ly, how does machine learning and AI help us interpret data? contribution is the Argeo Searcher with the new Hugin To give an example—with all the sensors turned on our

Superior. It’s a big project for us as a company; we’re po- Hugin Superior, for say 48-50 hours, we acquire up to 10 sitioning ourselves within the oil and gas sector, which is terabytes of data. Imagine sifting through all of that. It massively important. takes a long time today, but we’re working on algorithms

We recently purchased two new Hugin Superiors, with to help us pick out important pieces. Another thing we’re all bells and whistles of sensors included. In addition, we working on is to make the data live for the client. We’re 28 OFFSHORE ENGINEER OEDIGITAL.COM