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manufacturers and subsea technology users at two recent successful events in Providence and Vancouver. Offshore Oil & Gas -- or specifically the continued push to make the discovery and recovery of offshore resources in increasingly deep waters more efficient and cost-effective -- remains the big driver in the commercial sector, and as the price per barrel of oil hovers in the $80 neighborhood, there is no reason to believe that this trend will not continue. The Offshore O&G -- in concert with defense needs -- are a big driver in the continued development of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), a market niche which has the potential for a $1.8 billion AUV spend by 2017 according to a recent market report -- The AUV Gamechanger Reporter - 2008-2017," offered by Douglas-Westwood Limited. A group of authors from DWL has written for MTR in this edition a special excerpt from the current report, an article that starts on page 22. Offshore O&G is the driver for another technology profiled in this edition, that of the new 3-D Visualization Lab at Memorial University of Newfoundland. The Landmark
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Graphics Visualization Lab has many potential users and uses, but a big driver for this region -- for the world -- is making the process of hunting viable energy sources more efficient. The Visualization Lab -- as presented by authors Dawna Greening and Dan Vasiliu -- offers researchers and business people alike to "walk" around an oil reserve located hundreds of meters below the sea floor, as the unique lab processes huge amounts of seismic data into 3-D, computer generated models of underground structures.
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