Subsea infrastructure is critical to the energy security in Europe and with the world not looking so bright there is a real urgency to get something going to protect this infrastructure, but the solution is not easy to find, panelists said at a discussion on seabed security organized by IRO, the Association of Dutch Suppliers in the Offshore Energy Industry, Royal Netherlands Navy and the Netherlands Embassy in Norway.

Held on board the hydrographic survey vessel HNLMS Snellius, moored in Norway’s Stavanger harbor, as part of the ONS 2024 conference, the session gathered Paul Flos from the Royal Netherlands Navy, René Peters , Program Manager for Energy Infrastructure at TNO and IRO board member, Sander van Luik from the recently-launched Seabed Security Experimentation Center (SeaSEC), and Mark Heine , CEO of Fugro and IRO Chair.