Security is a topic that has expanded in the last couple of years, bringing new worries to Europe. With a number of incidents occurring in European seas that harmed subsea (energy) infrastructure, seabed security made its way onto one of the first places on the energy security chart. A panel at Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC) agreed that no one knows what is going on below the North Sea surface and threats are undoubtedly incoming, thereby prevention needs to be accelerated by finding new ways of using what is already available.

Jeroen de Graaf , Director at IRO and NMT – set to merge into one as of 2025, Sander van Luik , Program Manager of Defense, Safety and Security at TNO and The Seabed Security Experimentation Center (SeaSEC), and Paul Flos , Program Director of International Naval Materiel Cooperation at the Dutch Ministry of Defense, took the stage at the Seabed security panel discussion on November 26 at OEEC in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to discuss what is needed to ensure everything is safe and secure.