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EDITOR’S LETTER

President Donald Trump was enroute to Alaska to meet with

Russian President Vladimir Putin as this edition of Offshore

Engineer was shutting down, and regardless the outcome oil and gas markets will react in kind. Regardless the short- V ol. 50 No. 4 term bump, the path for oil and gas remains solid for the

ISSN 0305-876x USPS# 017-058 coming years, and of particular interest was recent news 118 East 25th Street, that Exxon Mobil could invest as much as $21.7B in Trini-

New York, NY 10010 dad and Tobago, tabbing it possibly as ‘the next Guyana’.

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Looking [further] south, Melissa Lucio, Welligence Energy www.OEDigital.com

Analytics, in this edition analyzes the development of the Vaca

EDITORIAL

Muerta which has allowed Argentina to start fulflling its poten-

GREGORY R. TRAUTHWEIN

Editor & Publisher tial as an energy exporter. The country already exports oil and

AMIR GARANOVIC some piped gas, but as the exploitation of Vaca Muerta acceler-

Managing Editor [email protected] ates, the opportunity to establish itself permanently as a player on the global LNG market arises. YPF plans to construct four

Contributors

BARRY PARKER, New York newbuild FLNG units with capacities of at least 5 MMtpa – the

WENDY LAURSEN, Australia

PHILIP LEWIS, U.K.

largest ever built – potentially a massive challenge if for no other reason securing dock space for the construction.

PRODUCTION | GRAPHIC DESIGN

NICOLE VENTIMIGLIA

Technical editor Wendy Laursen again takes a deep dive in- [email protected] side the use of robotics offshore, in her article “Patrolling Robots

SALES

Take Their Next Steps Offshore” starting on page 26. Both the

TERRY BREESE, VP Sales +1 (561) 732-1185 | [email protected] digitalization and automation trends continue to signifcantly

JOHN CAGNI drive tech development in the offshore sector, in the name of [email protected] | +1 631-472-2715 safety and effciency, and as patrolling robots have proven their

FRANK COVELLA worth onshore, confdence grows in their performance offshore. [email protected] | +1 561-732-1659

Staying on the tech watch, we met with OpenTug founder

MIKE KOZLOWSKI [email protected] | +1 561-733-2477 and CEO Jason Aristides recently to discuss the evolution of

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Check out the ter suited for one of our maritime titles, this story and OE TV 2025 Media

CORPORATE STAFF interview is highly relevant for the offshore energy sector, as

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JOHN O’MALLEY those moving millions of gallons of products on the inland and

Code Below [email protected] coastal waterways currently don’t have the real-time visibility

President and predictive intelligence that is more common on the deep

GREGORY R. TRAUTHWEIN [email protected] sea shipping side of the business.

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