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Editor’s Note 2020 Vision Photo: NORTEK www.marinetechnologynews.com ersonally I ? nd it hard to believe that yet another

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Tel: (561) 732-4368; Fax: (561) 732-6984 several articles in this edition which help that process. Start- ing on page 20, Andy Lipman and Alan Yu from ABS ask if

PUBLISHER 2020 will be the year for subsea mining. Subsea mining has captured the fascination of the

John C. O’Malley subsea crowd since Howard Hughes built the Glomar Explorer in 1972. The cover story for jomalley@marinelink.com its real mission – recovering a Soviet submarine – was that the rig would be used to mine manganese nodules from the deep ocean ? oor, a story that was so effective that it had the

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Gregory R. Trauthwein unintended consequence of stirring interest in ocean mining. trauthwein@marinelink.com

Following this is Elaine Maslin’s “March toward Miniaturization.” Here she reports on a growing battalion of small, compact systems that are marching in on the subsea world, in

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Justin Manley, U.S. some ways making it a bigger space for more to enter. Smaller remotely operated vehicles

Elaine Maslin, Aberdeen

Tom Mulligan, Ireland (ROVs) and smaller autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are growing in number and

Claudio Paschoa, Brazil in turn driving smaller technologies that support them. Her story starts on page 26.

William Stoichevski, Oslo

Finally, starting on page 48, Offshore Engineer managing editor Eric Haun looks at the offshore energy market. The “new normal” is a phrase tossed around often in offshore

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Irina Vasilets energy circles today as those servicing and operating in the sector grapple with the harsh vasilets@marinelink.com realities of the prolonged industry downturn. Operators, service companies and equipment

Production & Graphic Design suppliers have been forced to adjust to oil selling at prices well below the $100+ per barrel

Nicole Ventimiglia mark seen in years past. As of this writing, Brent oil was hovering around $62 per barrel, nicole@marinelink.com and analysts expect prices will remain in this range for some time into the future. Haun,

Corporate Staff who covers the market in earnest via OEDigital.com, shares insights on the direction and

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Mark O’Malley pace for offshore oil and gas in 2020 and beyond.

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