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Offshore Europe launches OE&Me with Sir Ian Wood

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.

Opinion

Opinion: Letting opportunity slip away

When an individual as astute as Lord Browne of Madingley is prepared to stand up at one of the world’s leading oil & gas conferences and basically tell Big Oil that the time has come to evolve from petroleum to energy by taking on the low carbon challenge, it really is time that Aberdeen woke up.

Other News

Building work to begin on new AECC

The developer of Aberdeen’s new £330million convention complex at Bucksburn has said the project is on track to start this year although a final funding deal has yet to be confirmed.

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Hotels flag despite Offshore Europe

A busy Offshore Europe event delivered “staggering” occupancy levels for Aberdeen hotels, but failed to reverse an ongoing decline due to the oil price crash, new figures show. In what is the first report on the Granite city’s hotel trade for the key month of September 2015, LJ Research found that room occupancy fell 12.8% despite reaching 99% capacity halfway through oil week. The report also found that hotel room yields in the month were down 13.8% on September 2013 – the last time Aberdeen hosted the biennial oil and gas event.

Offshore Europe

Offshore Europe 2015: Organisers hail second biggest attendance record

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.

Offshore Europe

Offshore Europe 2015: Video – School visit leads to exciting career

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.

Offshore Europe

Offshore Europe 2015: What will be the lasting impressions from this year?

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?

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Offshore Europe 2015: We will only thrive as an industry with the best minds on our side

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

Offshore Europe 2015: Video – Offshore Europe provides “good bang for buck”

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.