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The Higher the Stakes, Subsea Redesign Underway for Floating the More Value AI Creates Offshore Wind

Idle time for a drilling rig costs about $250,000 an hour. AI is The dynamic high voltage cabling required for foating offshore being embraced across the industry to ensure it doesn’t happen. wind farms is causing a rethink of subsea array design, and

By Wendy Laursen

Baker Hughes is qualifying a solution that aims to increase standardization and reduce costs.

By Wendy Laursen 36 46

Flare Gas Recovery Meets the Future

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on

Flare gas recovery lies at the heart of a range of integrated, new

Submarine Networks emissions abatement technologies.

Submarine communication cables – almost 560 of them de-

By Wendy Laursen ployed to date – crisscross our oceans, interconnecting conti- nents and carrying over 99% of intercontinental data traffc.

This article looks at how the emergence of artifcial intelligence (AI) will affect these cables in terms of traffc demand as well as in terms of how we design and operate the key equipment that feeds data into these cables.

By Geoff Bennett, Infnera

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