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New Subsea Power Control Module is Part of Industry Effort to Go Electric

Optime Subsea has been selected to deliver a new subsea power control module to ABB. Started in 2013, ABB formed a joint industry project (JIP) with three oil companies. The JIP aims to develop transmission, distribution and power conversion systems for subsea pumps and gas compressors, operating at depths of 3,000 m and over vast distances. The development is part

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Finland Takes Over after US as Arctic Council Chair

This month, in Fairbanks, Alaska, foreign ministers from the eight Arctic States and leaders from the six indigenous Permanent Participant organizations of the Arctic Council convened at the 10th Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting to mark the conclusion of the two-year U.S. Chairmanship and to herald the beginning of the Finnish Chairmanship, which will run from 2017 to 2019. Foreign ministers of

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