The 3rd annual Remote Inspections & Operations Special Report first published within the March/April 2025 issue of Offshore magazine. The report covers monitoring and inspection
technologies, aerial drones, subsea AUVs, uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs), and remote-controlled operations for the offshore energy industry.
Features include:
- An interview with Benjamin Laura, Oceaneering's senior vice president and COO
- Riser integrity management, by Baker Hughes
- Drones for offshore remote inspections, by Flyability
- Drones for FPSO maintenance, by Terra Inspectioneering
- UAV deliveries for offshore wind projects, by TNO
- USVs for offshore energy development, by Fugro
- A new USV for remote surveillance, by Kongsberg Maritime and Reach Subsea
- Continuous developments in remote operations centers, by Remota
The Offshore editorial team wrote or arranged the material for this special section, putting a strong emphasis on critical remote operations topics such as asset management, subsea technologies, drones, USVs, and offshore energy advances that will likely trend in 2025. You'll need free site-access membership to view the articles below. If you are not already a registered website user, you can sign up here.
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For more information about Offshore's special reports, contact Editor-in-Chief Ariana Hurtado at [email protected].
About the Author
Ariana Hurtado
Editor-in-Chief
With more than a decade of copy editing, project management and journalism experience, Ariana Hurtado is a seasoned managing editor born and raised in the energy capital of the world—Houston, Texas. She currently serves as editor-in-chief of Offshore magazine, overseeing the editorial team, its content and the brand's growth from a digital perspective.
Utilizing her editorial expertise, she manages digital media for the Offshore team. She also helps create and oversee new special industry reports and revolutionizes existing supplements, while also contributing content to Offshore magazine, its newsletters and website as a copy editor and writer.
Prior to her current role, she served as Offshore's editor and director of special reports from April 2022 to December 2024. Before joining Offshore, she served as senior managing editor of publications with Hart Energy. Prior to her nearly nine years with Hart, she worked on the copy desk as a news editor at the Houston Chronicle.
She graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Houston.