Fluid power manufacturers return to the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston May 5-8 to showcase their durable, reliable and powerful designs.
With a new theme of Waves of Innovation >> Offshore Energy Excellence, OTC will highlight the groundbreaking advancements in offshore energy May 5-8 at Houston’s NRG Park, showcasing the industry’s drive for innovation. As global energy needs evolve, Waves of Innovation reflects OTC’s commitment to sustainable, cutting-edge technologies that are shaping the future of offshore energy — from pushing the boundaries of what is possible for oil and gas, to enabling emerging energy sectors like wind and tidal to mature and grow.
At OTC 2025, industry leaders will come together to explore new frontiers in offshore energy, emphasizing the operational efficiency, environmental responsibility, and technical excellence required to meet the challenges of tomorrow’s energy landscape.
More than 40 fluid power companies will exhibit at the event highlighting the powerfully dense and safe technologies that encompass hydraulics and compressed air applications.
Hydraulics withstands the harsh offshore environs
For fluid power manufacturers, OTC is an opportunity to let users know how they can help them solve their challenges and problems. Hydraulics is ideally suited to the harsh offshore environments of oil and gas where high pressure and corrosive settings reign.
According to Michael Odrzywolski, marketing manager for Moog Inc., “OTC is a chance for Moog to meet customers and companies across the energy and marine industry and listen to the challenges as well as solve problems. People know our reputation for quality and highly reliable technology. Attendees who come to our booth (#1649) will see motors and actuators for downhole drilling and enabling subsea communication. They’ll see technology that thrives in the harshest environments, in part, because we’ve mastered the science of power/data/fluid transmission. An example of that is our High Voltage Electrical Swivel Joint. HVES enable developers of floating wind energy platforms to commission structures that vertically pivot, or “weathervane,” like the floating production units that process hydrocarbons.”
Attendees walk the show floor at OTC Offshore Technology Conference 2023.
Likewise, Rota Ltd. will highlight current and new products including its linear and radial transducers for hazardous (European) zone 0/1 suitable for use in North American class 1 division 1 and 2 and safe areas to energy industries for landside, off-shore and subsea applications. Rota will exhibit current and new products at OTC at booth 649. Mike Moore, Technical Sales Engineer, said the company will present its new Rota LA/LO sensors and the small/compact Rota NM sensor, which is suitable for direct integration into HPU control manifold blocks for safe area deployment. “We also manufacture instrumentation connector and cabling systems for the energy industry too, including live disconnect electrical connectors to mitigate the need for hot permit requirement in hazardous zone 1 areas,” Moore said. “Energy applications include all landside drill rig-floor functions, pipe handling, valves, chokes, wellhead latches and BOPs. Off-shore and subsea applications include all drill rig-floor functions, pipe handling, chain jacks, valves, wellhead latches, BOPs, PLET/PLEM and ROV.”
System Seals will be exhibiting at OTC in booth 629 for the first time, said Matt Zalick, director of business development. The company will be highlighting its capabilities, custom design and R&D for subsea projects and will be focusing on seals designed specifically for oil and gas.
“In the oil and gas space we’ve developed some new sealing profiles that are specifically designed to retrofit seals in the pressure controls group,” Zalick said. “These systems were largely designed with that we would call standard catalog seals. There are some prominent players out there that are speccing the same seals in subsea equipment, that they also put in hydraulic cylinders going on excavators and in steel mills. But we have a sealing set that is specifically designed for retrofitting in this subsea equipment. Those seals are made from materials that are also specifically designed for managing the different fluids, pressures and temperatures found in those applications. There’s a specialty material that we use as an anti-extrusion device in these seals — our code L120 — that is a an engineered polymer that replaces PEEK material, which tends to drive up cost in subsea seals. That’s the material we make here at system seals.”
Bosch Rexroth will be highlighting a variety of its Hägglunds technologies in its booth 3219, including:
- Fusion – This self-contained, all-inclusive drive system is a 2025 OTC Spotlight on New Technology winner.
- Quantum Power – The 2024 Spotlight on New Technology winner, this powerful version features high-speed operation with high efficiency, useful for winches, thrusters, mud pumping, and dredging cutter heads.
- Atom Cutaway – The 2023 Spotlight on New Technology winner, Hägglunds Atom comes bundled in an extremely compact design that withstands harsh environments and mounts directly to the driven shaft.
- Rineer High Torque Vane Motors – The “vane-crossing-vane” design provides optimum power-to-weight ratio, smooth output over a wide speed range and maximum torque at zero rpm. They are mechanically efficient at medium speeds – perfect for thrusters, cooling fans, and small power swivels.
- eSEA Subsea Actuators – its pioneering portfolio of easy-to-use Subsea Electric Actuators (eSEA) enables the lean electrification of any subsea production system or process valve.
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- eSEA Torque – The 2023 Spotlight on New Technology winner, Subsea Valve Actuator is the world’s first electric actuator that can replace conventional hydraulic cylinders with proven safety technology and without taking up additional space.
- eSEA PUSH L2
- eSEA PUSH L5
- eSEA Drive – the smart electrification package for hydraulic subsea actuators, it closes the crucial gap in the electrification of all electric fields and safety devices such as HIPPS and SSIV. We will show the eSEA Drive together with a major subsea valve manufacturer, showing the capability to electrify their entire portfolio of subsea valves.
- **New ** eSEA Spin – a cost-efficient way to automate subsea control valves in water depth of up to 4,000 m. The actuator will be introduced to the market during OTC25. Both eSEA Drive and eSEA Spin innovations are designed with a focus on standardization and industrial scalability.
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Rexroth will also present three technical poster sessions:
- Tuesday May 6 at 10:30 am: Ensuring Precise Flow Control: Optimized Multiturn-Actuation For Low-Power Applications
- Wednesday May 7 at 4:00 pm, Design For Reliability: Enabling Enhanced Condition Monitoring in All-Electric Subsea Systems
- Thursday May 8 at 11:10 am, ePoster Lounge Part IV, Enhancing System Availability: Findings and Potentials Discovered During the Electrification of Large Subsea Valves
Above: igus’ e-loop modular e-chain cable carrier, on display in 2023 at OTC, is a finalist for ASME’s BMEA Award.
One of the key highlights at the igus booth 3565 will be its e-loop, a modular e-chain cable carrier that ensures the safe and reliable guidance of cables and hoses in dynamic hanging applications such as top drive systems in drilling rigs, construction machines, oil platforms, and wind turbines. The e-loop is a finalist for ASME’s Best Mechanical Engineering Achievement (bmea) Award. Winners will be announced at OTC. Igus will also be highlighting its array of motion plastics technologies, including e-chains, bearings, cables and more.
Trends take shape in the conference rooms
Like the industrial manufacturing and mobile machinery industries, electrification, smart technologies, hydrogen, and AI are also taking offshore by storm and will be seen throughout the conference program. As the industry has evolved so have the topics. Many of them include alternative energy production as well as sustainability functions for offshore drilling. Such topics will include the following:
- Driving Efficiency and Innovation in Offshore Production Through Electrification
- Intelligent Solutions and Technologies in Well Design, Completion, Productivity and Subsea Operations
- Optimizing Drilling and Monitoring Through Innovations in Digitization, AI, and Machine Learning
- Hydrogen in the Marine Environment: Applications and Safety
- Digital Transformation of the Offshore Energy Industry
Several of the technical sessions will also be covering alternative energy production where wind and hydrogen will be major players.
Visit 2025.otcnet.org for more details and to register.
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