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Our team just returned from this year’s Offshore Technology Conference, where attendance numbers showed a slight drop from last year’s. The official attendance number came to 66,820–a strong showing, but not as impressive as the more than 73,000 people who attended the show in 2008. Despite the drop in numbers (largely due to the decline in oil prices, of course, but also related to swine flu fears), the exhibit area was the second largest ever, covering more than 557,000 sq ft with 2,500 companies from 38 countries.