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Welcome to Setting Course, an ABS Podcast. From carbon capture and electrification to alternative fuels and regulatory developments — tune in for informed conversations between industry leaders as we chart the future of maritime.
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On this episode of Setting Course, an ABS Podcast, Sam Kanner, Aikido Technologies CEO, and Rob Langford, ABS Vice President of Global Offshore Renewables, join host Brad Cox, ABS, to discuss the commercial viability, manufacturing scalability, safety considerations and global potential for the floating offshore wind industry.
Guest Speakers: Sam Kanner and Rob Langford
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Charting the Future of Floating Offshore Wind
As nations around the world continue to explore diversifying their energy sources, floating offshore wind platforms offer an option for countries where fixed-bottom offshore wind developments are limited.
On this episode of Setting Course, an ABS Podcast, Sam Kanner, Aikido Technologies CEO, and Rob Langford, ABS Vice President of Global Offshore Renewables, join host Brad Cox, ABS, to discuss the commercial viability, manufacturing scalability, safety considerations and global potential for the floating offshore wind industry. Sam also provides insight into Aikido’s floating platform design, which aims to streamline production and deployment processes.
Guest Speakers
Sam Kanner
Aikido Technologies Co-Founder and CEO
Rob Langford
ABS Vice President, Global Offshore Renewables
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On this special episode of Setting Course, an ABS Podcast, Jean-Charles Rinaldi, SBM Offshore Group Director of Sales and Marketing, and Miguel Hernandez, ABS Senior Vice President of Global Offshore, joined host Brad Cox, ABS, in the ABS booth at the 2025 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas, to discuss offshore innovation and the future of the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) sector.
Guest Speakers: Jean-Charles Rinaldi and Miguel Hernandez
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FPSOs, Innovation and the Next Offshore Frontier With SBM Offshore
On this special episode of Setting Course, an ABS Podcast, Jean-Charles Rinaldi, SBM Offshore Group Director of Sales and Marketing, and Miguel Hernandez, ABS Senior Vice President of Global Offshore, joined host Brad Cox, ABS, in the ABS booth at the 2025 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas, to discuss offshore innovation and the future of the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) sector.
Share this episode with your friends, leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, or send feedback to podcast@eagle.org. Learn more about how ABS is supporting the offshore industry at www.eagle.org.
Guest Speakers
Jean-Charles Rinaldi
SBM Offshore, Group Sales and Marketing Director
Miguel Hernandez
ABS, Senior Vice President of Global Offshore
In this episode of Setting Course, an ABS Podcast, Martin Carolan, Managing Director and CEO of Provaris Energy; Stergios Stamopoulos, Director of Global Sustainability for ABS; and Ibrahim Muritala, Senior Sustainability Engineer and Global Hydrogen Lead for ABS, join host Brad Cox, ABS. They discuss the current state of hydrogen production, the bottlenecks in scaling green hydrogen availability, and the technical and operational challenges in transporting hydrogen.
Guest Speakers: Martin Carolan, Stergios Stamopoulos and Ibrahim Muritala
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Hydrogen Value Chain With Provaris Energy
Hydrogen’s potential as an alternative energy source reaches well beyond marine fuel applications. It also has potential for on-land commercial energy and in energy-intensive industrial operations. As such, the transportation of hydrogen by ship could play a key role in the emerging hydrogen value chain.
Share this episode with your friends, leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, or send feedback to podcast@eagle.org. Learn more about how ABS is supporting the offshore industry at www.eagle.org.
Guest Speakers
Martin Carolan
Managing Director and CEO, Provaris Energy
Stergios Stamopoulos
Director of Global Sustainability, ABS
Ibrahim Muritala
Senior Sustainability Engineer and Global Hydrogen Lead, ABS
In this episode of Setting Course, an ABS Podcast, we brought together leaders from across the methanol value chain to discuss the growing methanol-ready fleet, scaling production, reducing fuel costs, and expanding port and bunkering infrastructure.
Guest Speakers: Greg Dolan, Meg Gentle, Sebastian Ebbing and Sundeep Shaw
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Meeting Maritime's Methanol Demand
With the demand for methanol as a marine fuel expected to grow rapidly over the coming years, can green methanol production scale enough to help shipowners comply with evolving regulations?
Join us in this episode of Setting Course, an ABS Podcast, as we bring together leaders from across the methanol value chain to discuss the growing methanol-ready fleet, scaling production, reducing fuel costs, and expanding port and bunkering infrastructure.
After this episode was recorded, Greg Dolan announced his retirement as CEO of the Methanol Institute. Congratulations, Greg, and thank you for joining this episode of Setting Course.
Guest Speakers
Greg Dolan
Methanol Institute, Former CEO
Meg Gentle
HIF Global, Executive Director
Sebastian Ebbing
MPC Container Ships, Group Sustainability Officer
Sundeep Shaw
ABS, Global Sustainability Manager
