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FPSO Market 2025:

Demand Steady, Prices Soar

As a leading classi?cation society for Floating

Production Storage and Of?oading vessels (FP-

SOs), the ABS knows a thing or two about the trends driving future generation of these mam- moth, capital-intensive units. Offshore Engineer was in Houston last month and met with Matt

Tremblay, Vice President, Global Offshore at

ABS, for his insights on drivers for the market in 2025 and beyond, from new designs to digi- talization’s evolving role in maintenance.

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Scaling ‘AI’ Offshore

Production-well serial data ticking in from electronically tagged downhole tools are 14 now sorted, algorithmically, and in near real-time. While some are still testing AI’s backend (programming and hardware) and front-end (user controls and contextualized data) — without committing — operators in

Norway are AI early adapters. Their engineer comms are already neural, just as young data scientists ?ush out the ?aws, losses and some of the complexity in well tests.

By William Stoichevski 22

CCS Delivers Surprise and

Uncertainty

There’s two problems that demonstrate the immaturity of CCS: the physics for predicting

CO2 behavior isn’t perfect, neither are the 4D seismic strategies required to make up for it.

By Wendy Laursen 28

Profiling Change

Sub-bottom pro?lers are tracking offshore wind into deeper water, but there’s other opportunities too that are driving the latest developments. 16

By Wendy Laursen

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