Page 4: of Offshore Engineer Magazine (May/Jun 2026)
Read this page in Pdf, Flash or Html5 edition of May/Jun 2026 Offshore Engineer Magazine
EDITOR’S LETTER V ol. 51 No. 3
ISSN 0305-876x USPS# 017-058 was born in the 60’s, so “the nuclear option” doesn’t harken memories of clean, sustainable power; rather walking by the 118 East 25th Street, signage pointing to a nuclear fallout shelter, much like a
New York, NY 10010 fre drill. But nuclear and all that it entails – with modern, tel: (212) 477-6700; fax: (212) 254-6271
I compact reactor units and clear potential to effectively feed www.OEDigital.com clean energy to a power-hungry world. This month Alisa Reiner takes a
EDITORIAL deep dive into Floating Nuclear, a new and fast-emerging offshore energy
GREGORY R. TRAUTHWEIN
President | Editor & Publisher frontier. For decades, foating nuclear power occupied a niche position [email protected] in the energy debate – technically feasible, strategically intriguing, but
AMIR GARANOVIC commercially marginal. Today, however, combined pressures of decar-
Managing Editor [email protected] bonization, energy security, land constraints, rising electricity demand and water scarcity are making foating nuclear power a more serious
Contributors
BARRY PARKER, New York proposition for policymakers, utilities, and infrastructure. In evaluating
WENDY LAURSEN, Australia
PHILIP LEWIS, U.K.
potential markets, the strongest case emerges in remote coastal regions
JOSEFINE SPIRO, Norway and small island developing states where the challenge is not only decar-
PRODUCTION | GRAPHIC DESIGN bonization, it is the high cost of imported fuel, the vulnerability of sup-
NICOLE VENTIMIGLIA [email protected] ply chains, and the diffculty of scaling grid infrastructure.
SALES
Nuclear is the emerging technical topic impacting multiple energy
GARY LEWIS fronts, but geopolitical confict … wars … are the lingering and big- (516) 441-7258 | [email protected] ger energy sector driver. While peace in the Middle East is never a sure
TERRY BREESE, VP Sales +1 (561) 732-1185 | [email protected] thing, it appears that the U.S./Israel war with Iran could be drawing
JOHN CAGNI down after fast start earlier this year, and now is the time to take a look [email protected] | +1 631-472-2715 at the immediate and longer term, deeper impacts of this confict and
FRANK COVELLA
Russia’s lingering 4+ year war with Ukraine have on energy production, [email protected] | +1 561-732-1659 transport and consumption. Throughout this edition – from OSVs to
MIKE KOZLOWSKI
Rigs to Exploration & Production – OE’s contributing markets experts [email protected] | +1 561-733-2477 weigh in on the pace and direction of key markets as political focus shifts
STEFY PICIOTTI THOMPSON, Europe
Phone:+33 (0) 6.21.23.67.02 | from war to commerce.
Check out the 2026
CORPORATE STAFF
CEO
Media Kit
JOHN O’MALLEY via the QR [email protected]
Code Below
IT Director
VLADIMIR BIBIK
Public Relations
MARK O’MALLEY
Gregory R. Trauthwein [email protected]
President | Editor & Publisher
Accounting [email protected]
ESTHER ROTHENBERGER [email protected] m: +1-516.810.7405
Circulation
KATHLEEN HICKEY [email protected]
SUBSCRIPTION
To subscribe please visit: www.OEDigital.com
The publisher assumes no responsibility for any misprints or claims or actions taken by advertisers. The publisher reserves the right to refuse any advertising. Contents of the publication either in whole or part may
Email: [email protected] not be produced without the express permission of the publisher.
Web: www.OEDigital.com
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means t: (212) 477-6700 mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publishers.
4 OFFSHORE ENGINEER OEDIGITAL.COM

3

5