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    by Tina Olivero

    Offshore energy sector gets boost from supercluster project

    A newly announced $3.4-million GeoScan project will help “de-risk” Atlantic Canada’s offshore wind and energy sectors by improving the technology for installations on glacial seabeds.

    The GeoScan project, announced recently by Canada’s Ocean Supercluster – a St. John’s-based network of businesses and researchers tasked with generating new technologies – will use wider 3-D acoustic scans to provide the offshore sector with more information to guide decisions. The technology provides a 3-D volumetric interpretation of sub-seabed geology with enhanced resolution and increased competitiveness for the global offshore renewable energy sector.

    The project is being led by Newfoundland and Labrador marine imaging company, PanGeo Subsea, with a British Columbia-based partner, Cellula Robotics. Memorial University’s Marine Institute will also be involved.The Ocean Supercluster is providing $2 million in funding to the project, with the rest coming from industry partners.

    PanGeo CEO Moya Cahill says the technology will allow her company to satisfy the global market demand for offshore wind farms, but also helps the oil and gas industry. “What’s driving our growth today is certainly offshore wind, but it can similarly be applied to the oil and gas sector as well as to marine construction,” she said a CBC article. The future is so promising. It’s so exciting for PanGeo. This is the type of support that we need to leverage our ability to innovate on a global scale,” Cahill commented.

    Ocean Supercluster said the GeoScan Project will create highly skilled, full-time positions and placements at both PanGeo Subsea and Cellula through the development and implementation of the project.

    Source(s) and Image(s): Atlantica Energy

    Tina Olivero

    30 years ago, Tina Olivero looked into the future and saw an opportunity to make a difference for her province and people. That difference came in the form of the oil and gas sector. Six years before there was even a drop of oil brought to the shores of Newfoundland, she founded The Oil and Gas Magazine (THE OGM) from a back room in her home on Signal Hill Road, in St. John’s, Newfoundland. A single mother, no financing, no previous journalism or oil and gas experience, she forged ahead, with a creative vision and one heck of a heaping dose of sheer determination. With her pioneering spirit, Ms. Olivero developed a magazine that would educate, inspire, motivate and entertain oil and gas readers around the world — She prides herself in marketing and promoting our province and resources in unprecedented ways. The OGM is a magazine that focuses on our projects, our people, our opportunities and ultimately becomes the bridge to new energy outcomes and a sustainable new energy world. Now diversifying into the communications realms, a natural progression from the Magazine, The OGM now offers an entirely new division - Oil & Gas Media. Today, The Oil and Gas Magazine is a global phenomenon that operates not only in Newfoundland, but also in Calgary and is read by oil and gas enthusiasts in Norway, Aberdeen, across the US and as far reaching as Abu Dhabi, in the Middle East. Believing that Energy is everyone’s business, Ms. Olivero has combined energy + culture to embrace the worlds commitment to a balance of work and home life as well as fostering a foundation for health and well being. In this era of growth and development business and lifestyle are an eloquent mix, there is no beginning or end. Partnering with over 90 oil and gas exhibitions and conferences around the world, Ms. Olivero's role as a Global Visionary is to embrace communication in a way that fosters oil and gas business and industry growth in new and creative ways.

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