The world is changing. Oil and gas companies have been given a deadline to transform. The energy industry is under increasing pressure to make operations cleaner, more efficient and less wasteful.
Jens Thomsen, Chief Commercial Officer at Maersk Decom, is on a mission to change the conversation around decommissioning.
Its been around 18 months since office life as we knew it came to a grinding halt. In the time since restrictions eased and people started to return to work there has been a marked change in approach with many, particularly the bigger corporates, reassessing their work cultures as they look for employees to return to offices instead of working from home (WFH) full time.
It’s November, which, after an enforced absence last year, means it’s time for ADIPEC.
Spending on offshore wind is closing the gap on oil and gas, and is expected to surpass it in key markets by 2030.
The ECITB’s Head of Strategy, Policy and Insights Jenny Young, a panellist at the COP26 Green Career Pathways event on 7th November, discusses what net zero means for industry jobs.
India will cut its climate emissions to "net zero" by 2070, the country's prime minister Narendra Modi has told the Cop26 summit.
Boris Johnson has defended his plans to fly to London rather than take the train after his attendance at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow.
The world will warm by at least 3C by the end of the century, some UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scientists have warned.
Nicola Sturgeon has described oil and gas as the “most difficult” issue for Scotland to confront, speaking on the opening day of the COP26 climate conference.
Stress is a key factor in mental health, affecting people in a variety of physiological ways. Defined as the ‘adverse reaction people have to excessive pressures or other types of demands placed upon them’ by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), stress – if left unchecked – can lead to damaging physical, mental and emotional problems.
The current shortage of road haulage drivers stems from a number of causes, but the least talked about is a change to the way that tax is paid by contractors. These changes to the ‘off-payroll working rules’, or IR35, were introduced to the private sector in April this year. The same changes caused chaos for contractors when they were introduced to the public sector back in 2017. So, to stop history repeating itself, what can the energy sector learn from these mistakes?
North Sea decommissioning is estimated at £46billion and the regulator recently warned that the industry may fall short of its cost cutting target. However, "groundbreaking” deals are emerging which could make significant headway.
Last month saw the UK Government unveil its Net Zero Strategy, the Treasury publish its Net Zero Review and the Department for Business Energy & Industrial Strategy give its go-ahead for the UK’s first two carbon capture projects.
The UK’s oil and gas industry faces worrying workforce shortages if current skills gaps are not addressed, the ECITB’s 2021 Workforce Census suggests.
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Delegates from around the world are today arriving in Glasgow ahead of a two-week conference that will test the willingness of today’s world leaders to deliver on the promises they or their predecessors made in Paris six years ago.
The stage is set. The (energy-efficient) lights are lit. After nearly a year of delay, the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 26) to the UNFCCC is finally upon us.
For those working across the energy industry, COP26 has been a hot topic for the last several years. Now, the conference is finally underway and, like everyone reading this, I am hopeful that it will see significant breakthroughs in the fight to tackle climate change globally.
Shell has pledged to halve absolute emissions from its operations by 2030 following a landmark Dutch court ruling in May.
Altrad has announced a three-year North Sea contract win with Serica Energy, securing 40 jobs.
Shell is under pressure to break up after activist hedge fund Third Point built up a $750million stake.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has come under fire for “failing to provide much needed clarity” on future carbon capture projects after a snub for the Acorn project last week.
The UK Treasury has increased its expectations for tax receipts from the North Sea oil and gas sector ahead of the COP26 climate conference.
Aker Solutions said it is expecting “increased market activity” going forward after profits dropped in the third quarter.
