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EDITOR’S LETTER

There have always been 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week and 365 days in a year, but somehow the days, weeks and months seemingly fy by ever faster, and here again we fnd ourselves on the doorstep of turning the clocks on another year.

Before sitting down to write this, I took the short exercise of exploring my year-end editorials since 2019, the frst full year that Offshore Engineer V ol. 49 No. 6 was under the guise of New Wave Media, and much to my surprise the

ISSN 0305-876x USPS# 017-058 majority of the time I was correct in overview and projections. [I must have been hitting the Christmas celebration a bit early in 2021, though, as I went in 118 East 25th Street, depth regarding my shopping experience for a shed … but I digress!].

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The biggest change, arguably, that will impact the offshore energy industry will be in January 2025 when President Donald J. Trump once again takes the helm,

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GREGORY R. TRAUTHWEIN and it is zero surprise to this audience that fossil fuel exploration and production

Editor & Publisher will be sharply in focus and on top of the President’s agenda; while offshore re-

AMIR GARANOVIC newable energy – heavily dependent upon government assistance – will be muted.

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A decade ago the ‘drill, baby drill’ mantra would have been met with unani- mous excitement by the energy companies, and make no mistake, the oppor-

BARRY PARKER, New York

WENDY LAURSEN, Australia tunities in oil and gas production will be ever present and voluminous with the incoming administration.

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But times change.

NICOLE VENTIMIGLIA

You walk into the Offshore Technology Conference today in Houston, and [email protected] there is a large and growing ‘renewable energy’ pavilion, something that would have been unthinkable 10 years ago, let alone in 1993 when I frst started mak-

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OE we explore the full range of emission reduction and environmental ben-

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