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Powering Deepwate:

Designing Gas Turbines for

Modern FPSOs

By Philipp Geipel and Atif Aliuddin,

Siemens Energy 26

Patrolling Robots:

Taking Next Steps Offshore 22

Patrolling robots have proven their worth onshore, and confdence is growing in their performance offshore.

By Wendy Laursen 30

OpenTug’s BargeOS:

Real-Time Visibility,

Predictive Intelligence to

O&G Barge Logistics

The tow and barge industry is, to put it kindly, a conservative industry built on a traditional way of doing things. But times are changing, and the need for digital solutions to help track and verify cargoes – particularly in the high-value energy market – is becoming mandatory. The upside: gains in operational effciency are real and measurable too, for both the transportation company and the 26 shipper, as Jason Aristides, Founder and CEO,

OpenTug, discusses in a recent interview with

Offshore Engineer TV.

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Understanding the Deep

Currents of the Gulf of America

By Jan van Smirren, Technical Coordinator of

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Understanding Gulf Ocean

Systems Initiative 34

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