Romulo Bacchiega
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The Tech Compass column. Technology that reaches the deck, the yard and the charter market before it becomes a slide.
Reports · 9 articles
Special WSB: Por Onde Anda? Skandi Amazonas
By Romulo Bacchiega A vessel that deserves more respect than speculation Some vessels become known because they disappear from the radar, change names, lose purpose, or end up as footnotes in the offshore market. Skandi Amazonas is the opposite. This is not a story about a forgotten vessel. It is a story about one of […]
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Energy Efficiency: Where Engineering Meets the Bottom Line By Romulo Bacchiega In offshore operations, fuel consumption and energy demand are high-impact costs—well-known and often dreaded fixtures of any OPEX spreadsheet. The novelty today lies not in identifying these costs, but in how we manage them. Energy efficiency, which for a long time lived in the […]
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Corporate AI: The fine line between productivity and exposure By Romulo Bacchiega It was just another ordinary day at Samsung’s semiconductor division in March 2023. An engineer, struggling with a stubborn bug, decided to ask ChatGPT for help. He pasted chunks of the company’s proprietary source code into the tool and, within seconds, received debugging […]
Petrobras Unveils its 2026–2030 Business Plan
By Romulo Bacchiega Petrobras Unveils its 2026–2030 Business Plan, Signaling a New Growth Cycle with Direct Impacts on the Naval and Offshore Industry Petrobras presented its official 2026–2030 Business Plan last Friday, December 5, at the Firjan headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. The event brought together company executives, industry representatives, institutional leaders and numerous guests […]
Why WSB-One Has Become the Benchmark for Offshore Data in South America
By Romulo Bacchiega In the offshore industry, wrong decisions come at a high cost. That’s why reliable, up-to-date, and contextualized data have become a true competitive edge. Since 2017, WSB-One, the intelligence platform developed by WSB Advisors, has established itself as the most complete and trusted offshore database in South America — the reference point […]
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