Business intelligence company, Offshore Network, are next month hosting the Upstream Digital Transformation Conference, a digitalisation event, but not one that’s looking at technology. Instead the event focuses on the ‘people’ aspects of digital transformation, with sessions including discussions on culture change, skills and collaboration.
There’s a general view that we should consign the year gone by to history. In oil and gas, and the wider energy industry, 2020 can more accurately be viewed as another challenging time for a sector accustomed to being beleaguered.
Remote inspection technology firm Air Control Entech (ACE) intends to recruit up to 10 new employees after landing a partnership with Stork, a Fluor company.
A new “Manifesto for Clean Growth” unites public, private and third sector partners in a shared mission to identify the economic opportunities a net-zero future offers the Scottish economy.
The number of jobs in the North Sea energy sector could fall by 20% in the coming years without “urgent investment” in offshore net zero solutions.
OGTC’s accelerator programme, TechX, celebrates the graduation of its third cohort of technology start-up Pioneers, the first to be done via a virtual programme.
Crown Estate Scotland is tendering a £40,000 contract for a study into whether oil platforms can be reused to produce hydrogen.
The oil & gas sector has a vital role to play in transitioning to net zero by 2050, and in mature basins like the UKCS, much can be achieved. Innovation and technology will be key to unlocking many of these opportunities.
Scottish start-up Mocean Energy has raised £850,000 for a new technology to bring wave power to subsea oil and gas.
An Aberdeen start-up firm’s technology for slashing oil well decommissioning costs has passed its first North Sea trial with flying colours.
Unmanned aviation firm Flylogix is planning more flights to monitor methane emissions from North Sea platforms early next year after reaching a new milestone.
The Oil and Gas Technology Centre has given itself a soft rebrand as simply “OGTC”, dropping hydrocarbons from the title.
BP, Baker Hughes and Spirit Energy are among those that have made the shortlist for AFBE-UK Scotland's 2020 Diversity and Inclusion Awards.
Crane and lifting technology firm Intebloc, of Aberdeen, is celebrating its biggest ever contract win after clinching a six-figure deal with Stena Drilling.
Covid-19 has caused an unprecedented global economic and social crisis. The pandemic has significantly affected all aspects of life. Almost overnight the world as we knew it began to spin on a completely different axis.
Silicon Valley businessman Tom Siebel urged business leaders to “drive not delegate the digital transformation”, in his keynote address to delegates at ENGenious Online.
A dozen “pioneer” start-ups are taking part in the Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC)’s third annual TechX Accelerator programme.
Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) bosses have said they are “pretty confident” a revolutionary new contraption for recovering platform jackets will grace the North Sea despite one of the firms behind it going bust.
More than 300 people have signed up to attend OGUK’s first-ever D&I webinar to further explore opportunities to improve diversity and inclusion in what remains a challenging landscape for the UK oil and gas industry.
There is a certain irony in the coincidence of two recent major events that together, focused minds on how exactly the huge upheavals caused by COVID-19 may affect our efforts to achieve net zero carbon.
Global powerhouses from the energy and IT sectors will assemble in Aberdeen this month to reveal how the oil and gas industry can cash in on digital tools and data.
The chief executive of the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has urged “pace” on research into low carbon options to reuse North Sea infrastructure.
The Oil & Gas Technology Centre is planning to set up a Net Zero Solution Centre with a view to making the UK Continental Shelf the first net zero oil & gas basin globally.
Eleven fledgling companies have graduated from an intensive Aberdeen-based oil and gas technology accelerator programme.
The co-founder of a multi-million pound chocolate enterprise will spotlight issues around diversity and inclusion at Offshore Europe.