Given that OTC will be in full swing in Houston as this is published, and that it is celebrating its 50th anniversary, I thought it would be timely to look back over 50 years of oil and gas in the North Sea with a bit of a legal lens. We are also celebrating at CMS, since our Aberdeen office is 25 years old this year so it’s a good time for reflection.
The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) is now entering its 50th year. Interestingly, the year of the first conference coincided with the Ekofisk discovery, heralding the start of the northern North Sea as a basin back in 1969.
Confidence is returning to the oil industry but the sector is not yet ready to land a knockout blow to the downturn, experts said in Houston yesterday.
An Aberdeen e-learning firm which got tired of waiting for the oil and gas industry to tackle its training and skills crisis has decided to lead the way.
Aberdeen firm ICR Integrity has joined forces with a company from Trinidad and Tobago to offer pipeline repair and maintenance services in the Caribbean nation.
Energy service giant Wood, of Aberdeen, and technology firm IBM have teamed up to harness artificial intelligence, analytics and blockchain to transform the way oil companies operate.
By Matt Abraham, supply chain and HSE director at Oil and Gas UK
My visit to OTC for the first time in my new role as supply chain and HSE director comes at a time when both the UK and international oil and gas industry have begun to emerge from weathering some turbulent times.
Aberdeen firm Balmoral Group is confident offshore drillers will want to shell out big bucks for a new product it launched at the Offshore Technology Conference today.
Watch this video of a pipe band playing at the opening of the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas. OTC is the oil and gas industry’s biggest annual exhibition. This year it is expected to host 70,000 people and 2,000 exhibitions.
An Aberdeen-headquartered asset integrity firm has expanded its global footprint with the opening of a new office and operational facilities in Houston, Texas.
Oil firms are less than two years away from finding the final piece of the puzzle for unlocking the US Gulf of Mexico’s deepest bounty, an analyst has said.
Aberdeen-based oilfield services firm Expro has announced that the company has been recognised with a Spotlight on New Technology award at the OTC Houston Conference.
There’s arguably no bigger spectacle in the oil and gas industry than the annual Houston conference that attracts tens of thousands of people from more than 100 countries for a mix of carnivalesque pageantry, massive displays of drilling rig equipment, wonkish technical meetings and, of course, after-hours parties.
As Houston prepares for its 49th annual Offshore Technology Conference we hear about how the city and its energy sector have evolved to overcome the challenges of the last two decades from Scottish-born Suzanne Munro, now US business development manager for NSL (part of ASCO Group).