World energy demand to plateau from 2030, says DNV GL report
World energy demand is expected to plateau from 2030, according to DNV GL’s inaugural Energy Transition Outlook.
World energy demand is expected to plateau from 2030, according to DNV GL’s inaugural Energy Transition Outlook.
In sitting down to write this article with another Offshore Europe looming, I was struck by the conference theme of embracing new realities and what that might mean for safety in our industry. So, I thought I’d share the backbone of a speech given at an Institute of Petroleum in September 1996 that led to the launch Step Change in Safety just one year later, at Offshore Europe in 1997.
A string of road closures and restrictions will be in place around the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC) as a busy gathering of offshore industry experts takes place next week.
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Reinvention dictates shedding the industry’s conservative skin, according to Offshore Europe chairman Catherine MacGregor.
A journalist who survived being shot six times by Al-Qaeda sympathisers is heading to Aberdeen to warn the oil and gas industry about the threat of terrorism.
The boss of Brazil's oil and gas giant Petrobras will join an august panel of speakers at the annual Offshore Europe event in September.
Industry doyen Sir Ian Wood has kicked-off a new campaign ahead of SPE Offshore Europe 2017 to encourage previous and future visitors, exhibitors and speakers to share their experiences of the event and what they are looking forward to seeing at September’s conference and exhibition.
BP's chief executive Bob Dudley will open this year's Offshore Europe, it was today confirmed.
Organisers of Europe’s largest biennial oil and gas industry event have appointed a new conference chair for SPE Offshore Europe 2017 in Aberdeen.
2016 may prove a year in which the theoretical underpinnings of the old adage that "the best cure for low prices is low prices" is challenged, according to Morgan Stanley.
Organisers of the Offshore Europe exhibition hailed its second best ever attendance despite the effects of the oil price crash casting a pall over proceedings. The Offshore Europe Partnership, a joint venture between Reed Exhibitions and the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), said attendance figures remained “very strong” at 55,947 with delegates drawn from 104 countries. This compares to 2013 when crowds hit a record 63,000. The organisation also said re-bookings for 2017 are looking “strong already”. This year the record hit by the four day exhibition was the 1,535 exhibitors from 44 countries, including 336 companies exhibiting at the event for the first time. Space available at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC) was - it’s biggest ever - was sold-out.
The perception of the OGA’s role has shifted, according to chief executive Andy Samuel.
Wood Group PSN's chief executive's career started in a phone booth on Union Street.
The industry must do more than just “grin and bear” its latest slump, according to Lloyd’s Register Energy’s Tim Walsh.
A school visit to offshore Europe in 2009 changed the life of former Mackie Academy pupil Craig Gordon. The apprentice draughtsman now works at Technip where he describes everyday as "different" after landing his dream job. Six years ago he was one of the 11,000 secondary school students in the UK who have already been inspired to date to find out about the oil and gas industry through OPITO's Energise Your Future events.
Later today when stands are being dismantled, cars eventually manage to exit the AECC car park and delegates stand in the security queue at the airport, what will be the lasting impressions of Offshore Europe 2015? Hopefully not the announcement that 5,500 North Sea jobs have been lost in recent months (surely an unnecessary stat this week?) or the traffic glue frustrations experienced by some. Inevitably comparisons will be made by many (not least Aberdeen’s hoteliers and publicans) with OE 2013. But is that appropriate?
Charles Darwin is quoted as having said “In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed”.
Stirling Group aims to help reduce the single largest cause of fatalities in the global oil and gas industry through its newly accredited advanced and defensive driver training scheme.
Oil major Shell has sought to transform the perception of the oil and gas industry after receiving no applications from female students for their engineering programme six years ago. The company and Aberdeen's North East College sought to understand why the only submissions had been from male applicants. Shell said three key reasons were found - poor perception of the industry, lack of female role models and poor experience of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) subjects.
Despite the challenges that the industry is currently facing in relation to the current commodity price, we have continued to see a steady stream of visitors to what remains the largest oil and gas event in Europe. I’ve always been impressed by what there is to see at Offshore Europe, showing in so many ways the breadth and depths, quite literally, that our industry goes to in order to innovate, push new boundaries and find new solutions. I am pleased that this year’s conference and exhibition has upheld that tradition.
Offshore Europe provided “good bang for the buck” this year despite reports that attendance was down from the prior event when oil was booming in 2013. Howard Johnson, co-founder and managing director of Blaze Manufacturing Solutions, admitted that business for the Laurencekirk-based firm would be down by third this year when compared to last year. The firm, which specialises in oil and gas fire safety protection systems, was exhibiting on the Scottish Pavilion which is spearheaded by Scottish Enterprise.
The career of the man who is charged helping right the industry’s wrongs started with a rejection letter.
Aberdeen-based engineering services firm Aiken Group's turnover more than doubled to £26.1 million in the past year and it has celebrated the achievement with a new product launch at Offshore Europe.
I travelled to Houston just days after the Macondo blowout; not to join the media horde that was out to pillory BP and its chief executive of that time, Tony Hayward, but to attend OTC. Needless to say, the 2010 show became dominated by the disaster as vitriol spilled forth via a host of news media bent on crucifying “Briddish Petroleum”. The industry was in shock ... absolutely caught on the back foot; so were government agencies in charge of the US Gulf, notably the MMS (Minerals Management Service), which was rapidly dismantled and replaced by a new regulatory and safety system that included the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. GoM operators came under massive pressure to get their act together and to develop adequate countermeasures. In July 2010, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil committed to providing a deepwater containment response capability for the US Gulf.