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EDITOR’S LETTER

Welcome to the September / October edition of Offshore Engineer and our focus on Digitalization. “Digitalization” has, in many respects, become one of this overused industry buzzwords, jargon that means 100 different things to 100 different people. With that we set our editor in Australia, Wen- dy Laursen, on the path of discovery, to dig deeper into the companies that are ‘walking the walk’ in terms of leveraging digital solutions. And she Vol. 49 No. 5 found a treasure trove. In July, ADNOC and e& announced a project to

ISSN 0305-876x USPS# 017-058 build a 5G network that will relay information from sensors embedded in more than 12,000 wells and pipelines to autonomous control rooms. 118 East 25th Street,

It is due to be completed in 2025 and expected to generate $1.5 billion

New York, NY 10010 in value during its ?rst ?ve years of operation. Siemens Energy is working tel: (212) 477-6700; fax: (212) 254-6271 on new concepts to make subsea digital systems smarter using its Subsea www.OEDigital.com

DigiGRID control, safety and digital twin systems. These are just two of mul- tiple real-world case studies driving the digital trend in offshore energy today.

EDITORIAL

GREGORY R. TRAUTHWEIN

In this edition we’re pleased to welcome back a long-tenured colleague Joe

Editor & Publisher

Keefe. Joe was editor of sister-publication Marine News for many years, and we

AMIR GARANOVIC were able to cajole him back with a trek to Sweden in August for an up close

Managing Editor [email protected] and personal ride onboard Northern Offshore Services (N-O-S) unique I-Class

Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV), powered by the ?rst commercial application of

BARRY PARKER, New York

WENDY LAURSEN, Australia

Volvo Penta’s IPS Professional Platform. As Joe writes, “in the cutting-edge IM-

PRESSER, N-O-S designed a ?exible, future-proof CTV that will adapt to and

PRODUCTION / GRAPHIC DESIGN accommodate new technologies and energy solutions over the next 25 years,

NICOLE VENTIMIGLIA all of which is targeted to exceed the needs of their most important cargo: the [email protected] offshore engineers that they serve.” While much is written about the plethora of new and emerging technologies that power the offshore energy business ahead,

SALES

TERRY BREESE, VP Sales perhaps more should be dedicated to the technologies that are designed to en- +1 (561) 732-1185 | [email protected] hance and protect the lives and well-being of the people that continue to work

JOHN CAGNI in and around some of the most challenging industrial conditions on the planet.

[email protected] | +1 631-472-2715

Last but certainly not least, read up on the new Menck hammer, a 6250KJ

FRANK COVELLA pile driving system that can only be best described by a German engineer of- [email protected] | +1 561-732-1659 fering the following illustrative analogy, saying that the new hammer – when

MIKE KOZLOWSKI it enters ethe market in 2027 – delivers a blow “which is the equivalent of a [email protected] | +1 561-733-2477

Porsche hitting a wall at 190 mph!”

GARY LEWIS, Panama “We are approaching the limit that mankind can build right now,” said (516) 441-7258 | [email protected]

Check out the

Fabian Hippe, Marine Foundations Sales Director, Acteon, “as with the 2025 Media 6000 we have maximized the weight of the ram that we can build.”

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Though the Menck hammers were originally designed for [and still used

JOHN O’MALLEY

Code Below in] the offshore oil and gas market, the MHU 6000W is designed to meet [email protected] the growing demands of the offshore renewable sector, opening up new pos-

President & COO sibilities for offshore wind projects by handling larger and heavier piles in

GREGORY R. TRAUTHWEIN [email protected] increasingly challenging environments.

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