Big Oil should spend windfall billions on transition, not dividends, says former Wood Group CEO
Oil giants should spend their billions of windfall profits on transition, not shareholder returns, according to the former CEO of Wood Group.
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Keiller takes helm as AGCC rebuilds
Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce (AGCC) has announced the appointment of industrialist Bob Keiller as its chairman and has published accounts which reveal the impact of the pandemic on the business group’s finances.
Asco changes hands and brings in Bob Keiller as chairman
International offshore logistics firm Asco Group, of Aberdeen, is starting Christmas week under new ownership.
Former Wood Group CEO named ‘icon of the year’
Scottish Enterprise chairman and former Wood Group chief executive Bob Keiller was yesterday unveiled as Scotland’s “icon of the year” in the Barclays Entrepreneur Awards.
Leading businesswoman turned to soup making to keep firm together amid downturn
A leading north-east businesswoman said she turned to soup making to help pull her firm together through the downturn.
Leg-up for Scots firms aims to boost economy
Helping business to scale up to the next level is key for growing Scotland’s economy and creating jobs, one of the north-east’s top entrepreneurs said yesterday.
Former Wood boss Keiller to mentor Virgin StartUp winners
Former Wood Group chief executive Bob Keiller is among the judges for Virgin Group’s competition for Scottish start-ups.
Promoted: World’s biggest one-day leaders event returns
Total Perspectives, a provider of inspirational leadership seminars and training, is happy to announce the return of Leadercast Live to the north-east.
EV Insights: Energy Voice’s top videos of 2015
Take a look back at some of Energy Voice’s most watched videos from the past year. From exclusive interviews with top industry leaders on The Journey to footage from life offshore. During the holiday season we’ll be selecting some of the most viewed videos of 2015.
Robin Watson officially takes up Wood Group’s top role
Robin Watson will officially assume the chief executive role for Wood Group tomorrow.
EV Insights: Energy Voice’s top columns from 2015
Throughout the holiday season Energy Voice will be taking a look back at some of our most read columns from 2015.
Scottish business leader Bob Keiller to launch consultancy aimed at next generation of innovators
Outgoing Wood Group chief executive Bob Keiller is poised to launch a business aimed at cultivating the next generation of Scottish business leaders.
The Journey: Scotland’s business success, Bob Keiller, and what’s next
Bob Keiller’s business path started on a council estate in Jedburgh, managing the local paper round.
Oil boss Bob Keiller joins panel to grill Scots entrepreneurs
A competition where Scottish entrepreneurs can win funding up to £100,000 will be judged by outgoing the chief executive of the Wood Group, Bob Keiller, at an event in Edinburgh next month.
Wood Group leader leaves oil and gas to fight for Scottish economy
Wood Group chief executive Bob Keiller is stepping away from oil and gas to help drive the Scottish economy forward.
Keiller named chairman of Scottish Enterprise
The outgoing chief executive of Wood Group has been named as the new chairman of Scottish Enterprise. Industry veteran Bob Keiller, who announced last month he would retire from the top spot at the oil and gas company, will take over from Crawford Gillies next year. Keiller had previously hinted at new opportunities when his departure was made public and said he had several business interests on the horizon.
Wood Group company secretary standing down
Wood Group has announced that Robbie Brown will step down from his roles as general counsel and company secretary at the end of the year.
EV Insights: In case you missed them, Energy Voice’s Friday Five
Each week Energy Voice pulls together the Friday Five. Click below to see the site’s most read and engaged with copy of the week.
Exclusive: “Right time” for Bob Keiller’s exit, says Wood Group chairman
It was the “right time” for Wood Group’s Bob Keiller to leave the top role, according to the firm’s chairman.
EV Insights: Robin Watson’s rise to the top
Wood Group has revealed Robin Watson will take the reins of the company after Bob Keiller retires at the end of the year.
Watson to replace Keiller as Wood Group CEO
Wood Group today confirmed Robin Watson will replace Bob Keiller as the company’s chief executive.
Bob Keiller: Right Now – Continue to Exceed Your Customers’ Expectations
Bob Keiller sends a message on Core Values to Wood Group employees every week. The note below is taken from a message he sent to employees a few weeks ago. Remember the '80s US rock band Van Halen? Ever heard of a clause buried deep in their lengthy touring contract? It stated something like “there should be no brown M&Ms backstage…if found, the band has the right to cancel the concert at full pay without warning.”
Bob Keiller: The B Side of the playlist on career advice
I’ve received many questions following recent articles on how to manage during difficult times. Readers are asking what specific things they could do, or I have done, or we are planning to turn the generic advice into practical measures. Well, I suppose it all depends. My business situation will be different from everyone else’s, so my decisions may or may not be relevant to others, but I am happy to share some of the tactical options we took to make our business less vulnerable during the current downturn in our industry.
Bob Keiller: Why I Give (and Get) the Best Career Advice from a Playlist
Many of us are old enough to remember buying vinyl albums. After you bought a new one, you would study every detail of the cover, and, then, you would play it repeatedly until you knew every track. Not only that, you knew the order of the tracks. I find good music inspirational. Some of you will already know that I write a weekly message on Core Values to my employees, and I always use a musical reference as a hook. So today, I want to share my playlist for leading in difficult times.
Bob Keiller: Oil price, who knows?
On any given day, you can download multiple financial forecasts of future prices for almost everything from shares in individual companies to the price of wheat, coffee or oil. I am really interested in the expected future price of oil because my company does most of our work in the oil and gas industry. If you read the analysts’ views on the oil price and the rationale behind their forecasts, they all sound credible. In fact, they always have, yet they have often been wrong. Few forecasters predicted the sudden oil price swings up or down over the last few decades, and none of them predicted the collapse in price in the last few months. Today, they can all point to the reasons why it happened and show how obvious it was, so obvious that none of them foresaw it.