2025 Pacific Operational Science & Technology Conference
Come visit Oceanit at the 2025 Pacific Operational Science & Technology (POST) Conference, hosted by NDIA and the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.
Oceanit's team is excited to attend and exhibit at this unparalleled platform for collaboration, innovation, and exploration of Department of Defense (DoD) opportunities for joint research, development, and experimentation. We will be located at booth #1520 on March 3rd and 4th (Monday-Tuesday) during the open sessions and exhibit floor times. Visit https://www.postconference.org/schedule-glance to see POST's agenda at a glance.
- Mon, March 3 - Exhibit Hall Open: 9:30 am - 6:00 pm
- Tues, March 4 - Exhibit Hall Open: 9:30 am - 5:00 pm
Attendees can visit Oceanit and more than 60 other industry companies showcasing cutting-edge technologies and services. Explore our latest advancements and engage with Oceanit's defense, cyber, energy, and innovation experts in thought-provoking conversations - and ask about opportunities to visit Oceanit's downtown Honolulu offices and laboratories.
Oceanit at the 2024 Offshore Technology Conference
Oceanit at the 2024 Offshore Technology Conference
6-9 May 2024 at Houston's NRG Park in Houston, Texas
Oceanit will be presenting at Houston’s Offshore Technology Conference, from May 6-9 at NRG Park. Oceanit will present multiple papers on the latest energy innovations and technologies from Oceanit Hawaii as well as Oceanit's H2XCEL Hydrogen Lab in Houston, TX. Speaker sessions scheduled include:
- Monday, May 6, Session 04 – 10:50: HeatX will be featured in, “High Temperature Compatible, Field-Deployable Heat Exchanger Nanocomposite Treatments” presented by Jake McHenry, ID 35384.
- Monday, May 6 - 11:30: Dr. Dylan Kobayashi will present, "Intelligent Robotic Heat Exchanger Maintenance & Non-Destructive Coating Inspection", ID 35464.
- Tuesday, May 7, Session 028 – 15:40: Dr. Ganesh Arumugam will be presenting on HydroPel in "Repurposing Existing Natural Gas Pipelines for the Transmission of Hydrogen," ID 35207.
- Wednesday, May 8, Session 033 – 11:10: DragX will be featured in, “An All-in-One Internal And External Coating Material For Enhancing Water Conveyance Pipelines” presented by Andrea Mansfeld, ID 35279.
Oceanit will also be presenting a Poster as part of the official OTC ePoster Lounge Part II proceedings, including a new Oceanit effort to create a Hydrogen transmission liner material: "Rethinking the Future of Hydrogen In Pipelines Using an Advanced Liner Material".
Since 1969, the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) has served as a central hub convening energy professionals from around the world to share ideas and innovations, discuss, debate, and build consensus around the most pressing topics facing the offshore energy sector. Visit https://2024.otcnet.org/ to learn more about OTC 2024.
HeatX at the North American Refining Technology Conference
North American Refining Technology Conference (NARTC)
Oceanit’s Jake McHenry, Product Manager for HeatX, will be attending the World Refining Association’s Houston refining event from January 30-31. The 2024 conference focuses on connecting US refineries with the cutting-edge technologies that will determine the role of refining in the Energy Transition.
HeatX combines breakthrough science in Nanotechnology, AI, and Robotics to produce a step change in heat transfer operational efficiency. HeatX Delivers value to Power Producers, Refineries, and Heavy Industry around the Globe. You can visit https://www.heatxglobal.com/ to learn more and get in touch with us via [email protected] for more information.
2024 Oceanit Technology Showcase: Delivering the Future
2024 Oceanit Technology Showcase:
Delivering the Future as the Energy Industry's Most Trusted Innovation Partner
The exclusive Oceanit Technology Showcase is back! Join us on May 7th at 5:00 pm at Houston’s historic 1940 Air Terminal Museum for an evening of disruptive innovation. Situated near Houston’s Hobby Airport, the 1940 Air Terminal Museum is a preserved Art Deco building that once served the City of Houston as the Houston Municipal Airport. The terminal building is now a protected landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Held annually alongside Houston’s Offshore Technology Conference, the Oceanit Technology Showcase event will feature technologies that are shaping the future, from disruptive innovations to scalable turnkey solutions. Food and drinks will be provided.
At Oceanit, we embrace chaos to uncover opportunities for disruption, diversification, and to contribute to a better planet and human society.
Click here to RSVP for our exclusive 2024 event or scan the QR code below!
An invitation from Dr. Sullivan
The 2023 EDGE Technology Showcase is a Wrap
Oh, what a night!
On Tuesday May 2nd, Oceanit hosted the 2023 EDGE Technology Showcase at Houston’s 1940 Air Terminal Museum, the historic building that once served the City of Houston as the Houston Municipal Airport, now William P. Hobby Airport.
The Oceanit team want to extend a heartfelt ‘thank you’ to everyone who attended! Thank you to all of our colleagues, partners, friends new and old, our volunteers, the staff of the 1940 Air Terminal Museum, and the National United States Armed Forces Museum and veteran crew of the H-46 Sea Knight ‘Pedro’.
We were excited to welcome so many familiar faces and forge new relationships with energy and aviation industry leaders, subject matter experts, engineers and researchers, field operators, and decision makers. Everyone together made this year’s EDGE Technology Showcase our best event yet, and the team cannot wait to take next steps, following all the great conversations and ideations from the night.
With global decarbonization ambitions and aggressive climate goals, the fundamental question we ask ourselves is, ‘how do we move the future from the distant horizon to the present day?’ The accelerating challenges facing our planet—such as climate change, food security, sustainable energy, sea level rise, and more—are all solvable. The question is not if, but when.
Oceanit set out to demonstrate engaging products along our path from Mind to Market, inspiring technologies that can be deployed today, as well as others further up our pipeline. The technologies at the 2023 EDGE Technology Showcase included bleeding edge products and innovations related to energy efficiency, green hydrogen production, decarbonization, beneficial reuse of produced water, cyber security, predictive AI-based maintenance, aircraft corrosion, and more.
At Oceanit, we purposefully seek out chaos to uncover opportunities to disrupt, diversify, and build a better planet for humans and society. The demonstrations at the 2023 event were technologies aimed at doing just that. They included: HALO, HydroPel, HeatX, AeroPel, CorLance, PiggyBack, RIVEAL, Scanite, A.N.T.S., CORAL, Sensor Shield, and our MERLIN all-sky sensor for methane emissions monitoring.
Thank you all for joining us to experience Intellectual Anarchy and disruptive innovation at work. Over the coming weeks, we will be sharing content from the event on our website, our YouTube channel, and other social media channels. Please follow along as we share highlights from the 2023 EDGE Technology Showcase and Beyond! Follow us on:
Dr. Sullivan Delivers Produced Water Society Keynote on How to Save The Planet
Houston, TX Feb 7 2023 | Water is the cornerstone of life on our planet. But most people don’t realize that nearly all of humanity’s industrial processes use water – and therefore create wastewater.
To understand the scale, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the largest semiconductor company in the world, uses about 1.5 million barrels of water per day to process semiconductors in Taiwan. One barrel—or BBL in the energy sector—is 42 U.S. gallons, meaning that the TSMC foundry uses 63 million gallons of water every day.
On Tuesday, Oceanit founder and CEO, Dr. Patrick Sullivan delivered the keynote address at the Produced Water Society annual seminar, addressing attendees on the subject of water as our next major natural resource focus for the planet – a resource that already impacts all of humanity. During the presentation, Dr. Sullivan introduced HALO, a directed energy technology capable of turning wastewater, which includes any water unfit for it’s intended purpose, into valuable commodity such as hydrogen and other valuable minerals.
Produced water is a category of wastewater in the energy world that consists of waste byproduct of oil and gas extraction that comes from deep in the earth. Most oil- and gas-bearing rock also contains water, along with salt and minerals, so when those resources are extracted from these rocks, produced water comes out too.
“In some locations, for every barrel of oil recovered, 50 barrels of produced water comes with it,” said Dr. Sullivan. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), produced water can be up to 10 times more saline than seawater, and can also contain varying amounts of oil residues, chemicals from fracking, bacteria, natural radioactive materials, dissolved organics, and more.
According to EPA, the amount of produced water generated in the United States is estimated at up to 25 billion barrels (BBLs) per year. Turning this huge amount of wastewater into a resource has become a novel idea as part of the push for global energy transition. Oceanit progressing along this path over the past year, via the HALO project.
“HALO is our directed energy technology that turns produced water, a waste product, into something valuable like hydrogen, minerals, and fresh water. It’s a way to turn lemons into lemonade”, said Dr. Sullivan. “The hydrogen can then be used for a variety of purposes, including producing electricity with fuel cells.”
HALO takes any produced water and with no pre-treatment, extracts large amounts of valuable hydrogen gas, as well as other value-add elements and metals. HALO offers a solution for both H2 production and the management of huge amounts of produced water that the oil and gas industry creates.
HALO is just one of several technologies that Oceanit is developing under EDGE (Energy Decarbonization for the Global Environment) to support the global energy transformation and make hydrogen a viable clean-burning fuel source for a greener future.
The annual seminar ran from February 7-9 at Houston’s Royal Sonestra. the Produced Water Society is a 501 (c)(3) educational organization serving water professionals in the oil & gas industry. The mission of the Society is to improve produced water management to the benefit of the environment and the industry. Learn more by clicking here.
EDGE Technology Showcase 2023: Delivering the Future
EDGE Technology Showcase 2023:
Delivering the future through disruptive innovation for energy, society, and sustainability.
Join us on May 2nd at 5:00pm for Oceanit’s 2023 EDGE Technology Showcase, returning to Houston at the historic 1940 Air Terminal Museum near Houston’s Hobby Airport. The 1940 Air Terminal Museum is a historic art deco terminal building that once served the City of Houston as the Houston Municipal Airport. The terminal building is now a protected landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Held each year alongside Houston' Offshore Technology Conference, Oceanit's EDGE Technology Showcase event will feature technologies that are delivering the future, from deep sea to deep space — from disruptive innovations to scalable turnkey solutions.
At Oceanit, we seek out chaos to uncover opportunities to disrupt, diversify, and work for a better planet and human society. In 2023, Oceanit will unveil bleeding edge products and services that have the potential to cost-effectively improve efficiency and sustainability to the energy industry. Oceanit will demonstrate the latest technologies related to energy efficiency, circular economy, hydrogen, decarbonization, methane emission, beneficial reuse of produced water, and more – technologies aimed at transforming the way we engage in climate challenges through the lens of EDGE: Energy Decarbonization for the Global Environment.
EDGE is Oceanit’s initiative that addresses an array of next-gen energy challenges like carbon sequestration, new energy sources like green hydrogen, energy efficiency, and predictive and prescriptive maintenance. EDGE examines the entire ecosystem – from exploration and production, through transmission, storage, and distribution, to carbon sequestration and new energy paradigms. In addition, Oceanit will share a range of new innovations in artificial intelligence, aviation, and much more.
To RSVP, scan the QR code below or click here: https://OceanitEDGE.rsvpify.com
Oceanit at the 13th Hawaii Geek Meet
Oceanit innovators Chris Tugman and Jeffrey Chen attended the 13th Hawaii Geek Meet last weekend to mingle with other science, technology, and innovation enthusiasts and show off some of the work being done at Oceanit by our 19°N cooling tech team.
The Geek Meet was back at Ala Moana Beach Park's Magic Island, being held in-person for the first time since 2019 due to the hiatus forced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Starting at 9am, and going until 3pm in the beach park, the Geek Meet was a perfect setting for Oceanit to bring out some new cooling technologies currently being developed for consumer applications and let the attendees try it out and give feedback.
“We cast a pretty big, inclusive net, for sure,” event organizer Ryan Ozawa told Pacific Business News. “Technology is something that permeates every aspect of everyday life. … But when I say 'geek,' I mean someone who is focused and passionate about something — about anything. The geek meet is a chance to show off and share that passion.”
Oceanit wanted to show off ThermoCore cooling technology, which was originally developed for NASA and the U.S. Military to keep personnel cool in extreme environments, such a ship yards, desert environments, and for use under hot flight suits and protective gear. 19°N is a brand name of Oceanit, adapting this cooling tech to keep people at a cool, comfortable temperature in the consumer sector. The 19°N team brought out some of the newest prototypes for the "Cold Okole" chair, the world's first active cooling chair with circulatory cooling.
The chair's built-in cooling system uses ice water from a cooler, with an active circulation pump system to move the cold fluid through the chair. 19°N set out to build the ultimate outdoor chair that can keep everyone enjoying the outdoors even when it's heating up. Visit the 19degreesn.com website to learn more.
You can visit the Hawaii Geek Meet site by clicking here.
HBMF 2022 | Biomimicry in the Brazilian Amazon: How animals’ Scales, Beaks, Fins, and Wings Inspire Manmade Innovations
On Thursday, October 13th at 4:00pm Hawaii Time, Oceanit's Tarah Sullivan Suiter will host a HBMF Innovation Session conversation with Dr. Marc Meyers, a pioneer of biomimicry, engineering tech solutions based on natural structures.
Part of the Hawaii Book & Music Festival 2022, the session is titled: Biomimicry in the Brazilian Amazon: How animals’ Scales, Beaks, Fins, and Wings Inspire Manmade Innovations
Marc André Meyers is an American materials scientist, engineer and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego. Meyers studies and writes about the dynamic behavior of materials, synthesis, processing, impact testing, and characterization of new materials. He also studies the properties of biological materials, and in particular the protective coverings of animals. Abalone shells, toucan beaks, the scales of exotic fish, feathers, and pangolin scales are some of the biological materials studied by his group. Meyers was born in Brazil. In the summer of 2014, he organized a group to follow the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition along the "River of Doubt."
IN THE NEWS | What School Could Be on Hawaii Public Radio
Honolulu, HI – September 28, 2022 | On Friday, Hawaii Public Radio's Bytemarks Cafe program welcomed a panel of educators and innovators, including Oceanit's Technology Sherpa, Ian Kitajima, to discuss the future of education in Hawaii and America.
Ian was joined by Mark Loughridge, director of the Case Accelerator for Student Entrepreneurship program at Punahou School, and Josh Reppun, ambassador for What Could School Be (https://whatschoolcouldbe.org/). Josh is a former history teacher, and now is the host of the What School Could Be in Hawaiʻi podcast, inspired by Ted Dintersmith’s film, Most Likely to Succeed and book, What School Could Be.
The conversation with host, Burt Lum, covered the upcoming What School Could Be panel, that will be held on Tuesday October 18th at the HTDC Entrepreneurs Sandbox in Honolulu. In a breakfast and coffee discussion panel, Ian, Mark, and Josh will be joined by the head of What School Could Be, Ted Dintersmith, Director of Searider Productions, John Allen II, and Director of UH Ventures and PACE, Susan Yamada to chat about reimagining education in Hawai'i.
The panel will focus on the intersection of investing and movements that reimagine education towards student-driven learning and real world challenges. The panelists will speak to current and potential efforts to invest in, and educate multiple generations of young minds who will shape the future of Hawai’i, and the nation.
You can listen to the full episode of HPR's Bytemarks Cafe by clicking here.