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EDITOR’S LETTER V ol. 51 No. 1

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Digitalization.

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A simple word, perhaps overused, with as many meanings as there are people.

While saying ‘digitalization’ is the path toward effciency and proftability may be

EDITORIAL trite, there is a core and fundamental truth to the notion that embracing and prop-

GREGORY R. TRAUTHWEIN

President | Editor & Publisher erly deploying advanced digital solutions across operations offers real potential for trauthwein@offshore-engineer.com effciencies that can impact the bottom line.

AMIR GARANOVIC

Managing Editor

This edition is flled with content exploring the possibilities that digital solu- garanovic@offshore-engineer.com tions unlock. Recently I had the opportunity to connect with a pair of executives

Contributors from Seequent to discuss a very specifc problem – unexploded ordnance (UXO)

BARRY PARKER, New York

WENDY LAURSEN, Australia and other explosive remnants of war (ERW) sitting on, or buried just beneath,

PHILIP LEWIS, U.K.

the seabed – millions of targets that could potentially end a project or end a life.

JOSEFINE SPIRO, Norway

Seequent’s answer is its UXO Marine module within Oasis montaj—built as part

PRODUCTION | GRAPHIC DESIGN

NICOLE VENTIMIGLIA of a modular, end-to-end geophysics workfow.

nicole@marinelink.com

Another tech in focus this month is from Tonics and is literally pushing the

SALES limits of directional drilling with high-performance digital MEMS inertial sen-

GARY LEWIS (516) 441-7258 | lewis@offshore-engineer.com sors, providing downhole well intelligence real time – Measurement While Drill-

TERRY BREESE, VP Sales ing (MWD) that is designed to provide accurate real-time data to guarantee the +1 (561) 732-1185 | breese@marinelink.com borehole trajectory follows the predetermined path.

JOHN CAGNI

Our cover feature this month from our Norway-based correspondent Josefne cagni@marinelink.com | +1 631-472-2715

Spiro takes a deep dive into a technology that celebrates its 20th anniversary this

FRANK COVELLA covella@marinelink.com | +1 561-732-1659 year, the development and delivery of the Ulstein X-BOW. Spiro sat with Chair of the Board Tore Ulstein for a behind the scenes review of the story behind that

MIKE KOZLOWSKI kozlowski@marinelink.com | +1 561-733-2477 revolutionary hull, a design and advanced marine and offshore energy solution

STEFY PICIOTTI THOMPSON, Europe that all began with a simple question: “What does the bow actually look like that?”

Phone:+33 (0) 6.21.23.67.02 |

Thompson@offshore-engineer.com

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