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Celebrate and embrace failure!

Norwegians like to think that openness and trust are values embedded in society – values which help us to address concerns as well as to correct mistakes and what is wrong. However, in the past [...]
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Bristow Helicopters’ simulator specialists keep pilots flying

Ensuring that the pilots entrusted with transferring thousands of workers offshore every year undergo rigorous, regular training is a crucial element of the oil and gas industry’s commitment to safety. Simulators are absolutely vital to [...]
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The rise of the energy freelancer

Using freelancers has been common practice, particularly among the creative industries, for many years. When you can’t find, can’t afford or don’t need specific skills full-time, the freelancer can provide the perfect solution. In fact, [...]
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Siemens Energy’s HVDC GIS – Maximising performance with a minimum footprint

High-voltage direct current (HVDC) electric power transmission – or as some say, the “electrical superhighway” – has become the technology of choice when it comes to transmitting power from renewable energy sources to the wider [...]
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Cut to the chase

How vessel-deployed mechanical cutting can reduce the unavoidable costs of wellhead removal. End-of-life assets have become a much-debated topic in the past few years, not least because many are now operating far beyond their originally [...]
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Energy evolution crucial for climate change

While ramping up the use of renewables and the electrification of oil and gas platforms are part of the solution to cut emissions from E&P activity, the energy sector itself has the potential to become [...]
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EU Chemicals exports hurt by emerging market collapse

EU chemicals trade has shrunk this year, as the coronavirus pandemic has spread, and lockdowns have restricted industrial activity and consumer goods demand. Trade is vitally important for the sector which has enjoyed a strong [...]
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Power line management in the time of Corona

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has put communities on lockdown and created a need for social distancing. Many are staying at home, but that’s not an option for the frontline workers running critical power transmission infrastructure [...]
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Reframing the debate: why we should be talking about how to improve exploration and production

The oil and gas sector is very unfashionable at the moment. Environmental concerns and the rise of renewables combined mean that the industry feels pretty friendless right now. Be honest: how many of us now [...]
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4 reasons to digitalise your grid today

According to IEA’s Global Energy Review, renewable energy has so far been the energy source most resilient to COVID-19 lockdown measures, with renewable electricity being largely unaffected while demand has fallen for other uses of [...]
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Alternative lifting solutions

Cranes are an essential piece of equipment utilised on a variety of offshore assets around the globe. These safety critical systems provide a link between the sea and installation, lifting equipment to support onboard operations [...]
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UK’s first hybrid crew transfer vessels to boast Danfoss Editron drivetrain systems

When Ørsted’s Hornsea Two offshore wind farm enters operation in 2022, two hybrid crew transfer vessels (CTVs) will be in place to transport technicians and other personnel crews across the roughly 90 kilometres to and [...]
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Offshore wind is expensive for India – but as compared to what?

In its last article, MEC Intelligence discussed how a demand-supply gap is expected to emerge towards 2030 in India as the scaling of low-cost wind, solar, hydro, nuclear, beyond a certain level would be difficult. [...]
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The growing competition between pipeline gas and LNG supplies in the European Union amid the COVID-19 outbreak

The European Union plays a crucial role on the global gas market, with 55% share in the global net pipeline natural gas (PNG) imports and 20% share in the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports. [...]
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Dedication to advanced completion and intervention solutions: ‘It’s all about technology’

While at university in the 1980s, Jørgen Hallundbæk envisioned a “Well Tractor” as part of his master’s thesis, and he took the concept forward when he founded Welltec® in the early 90s. After more than [...]
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How digital projects can drive investment and reduce costs

Despite its rich heritage of engineering ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit, the oil and gas industry has been traditionally slow to adopt new technology. However, following the protracted downturn in recent years, this changed dramatically with [...]
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Carving out new offshore budgets that drive resilience through new proven technology

As the offshore oil and gas industry recovers from a sudden and deep drop in oil prices triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent Russia-Saudi Arabia price war, the sector must identify the most effective [...]
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Net-zero energy heralds exciting transition period for oil and gas

In the past, the blame for manmade climate change was laid firmly at the feet of the oil and gas sector. As an industry, oil majors and the supply chain have never shied away from [...]
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Digital solutions key to sustainable energy sector

Quicker and broader adoption of digital solutions is a key element in the future sustainability of the energy industry, never more so than in the current operating climate. Progress has been made and is being [...]
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Subsea UK: Locking in value to ensure the road to recovery

In between the Teams and Zoom calls, which now fill our days, and the odd webinar or two, it’s becoming increasingly evident that the oil and gas industry needs to have some serious conversations about [...]
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What might COVID 19 mean for DSOs in the long-term?

Summer is here and COVID-19 is still with us. Though parts of society are reopening, full normality will be a slow, potentially irregular process – three steps forward, two steps back. Nonetheless, the situation has [...]
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Collectively defining the common goal: Digitalisation as a shared objective

The impact to the oil and gas industry we are seeing from the COVID-19 crisis, and the continuing low oil price, has been considerable. One thing we can be sure of as we start to [...]
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Keeping the lights on at the end of the tunnel

Across Europe, new COVID-19 cases are declining, and economies are taking tentative steps to ease restrictions and return to something like normality. Assuming we do not see a second peak, this is cause for celebration: [...]
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How Egypt banks on renewables to meet expected surge of energy demand

To meet its soaring demand for energy, Egypt is turning to renewable sources. Its targets, if accomplished, will see it become a pioneer in the African energy landscape. But are the plans realistic? Egypt’s population [...]
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Operating a distribution network during a pandemic: The challenges and threats

Overnight, COVID-19 lockdowns have transformed our economies and societies. Factories are quiet, shops are shuttered, offices are empty as people stay at home to stop the spread. The IEA’s most recent report reveals that global [...]
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How we can emerge from COVID-19 to tackle climate change

If there’s one positive thing that COVID-19 has brought us, it’s clarity. It has never been easier to see the positive impacts of reducing greenhouse gas emissions – the cleaner air in Lisbon, the clear [...]
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Simulation supporting design of subsea equipment

As the oil and gas industry continues to demand efficiencies within the project supply chain, innovative technologies can prove valuable in reducing unforeseen costs associated with rework, redesign and operational work arounds. Once the process [...]
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Market uncertainty and COVID-19 boost UK oil and gas supply chain diversification into non-energy sectors

The Energy Industries Council (EIC) has now published its fourth edition of the Survive and Thrive Insight Report that charts the course 40 EIC member companies have taken to grow against a backdrop of continued [...]
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India: Why bother about offshore wind at all?

India is among the fastest-growing economies in the world and electricity demand is nearly expected to double in the next decade. India’s electricity demand is expected to go from 1,275 TWh in FY2019 to 2,325 [...]
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Opening the door to the Middle East

How Phaze Ventures worked with Interface Fluidics to bring new oil optimisation solutions to market. The disruptive idea Innovative ideas are often born in the most unlikely of places. For Interface Fluidics, a technology-enabled oil [...]
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One Sea redefines the autonomous ship agenda

Ship autonomy tests show that a range of technologies can do the job, but clear definitions of different levels of automation, standards and regulations are urgently needed. Free from the burden of day to day [...]
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A guiding hand for the autonomous ship – ‘We have the technologies. Now we need regulations!’

Eero Lehtovaara talks about ABB’s digital initiatives in shipping and his priorities as the new Chairman of One Sea, a 12-member alliance of ship automation technology companies Capt. Eero Lehtovaara is Head of Regulatory & [...]
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Will the COVID-19 pandemic upend the energy transition?

“It’s moving a global energy system dominated by unabated fossil fuels with greenhouse emissions, to a global energy system dominated by low-carbon energy sources with much lower emissions,” replies Corin Taylor, when asked for a [...]
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New fuels and heat-sensitive cargo

The new fuels introduced to the bunker market are diverse in nature. However, one particular characteristic can prove troublesome if the vessel is carrying heat-sensitive cargo. Very-low-sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) is the umbrella term for [...]
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Preventing severe chalk influx with an industry-first lateral drain hole with solids control screens

An operator in the Norwegian North Sea required a simple, low cost method of creating a dual lateral well design in order to access reserves which would otherwise have been uneconomical to recover. The well [...]
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Chemical industry faces volatile backdrop on road to recovery

The coronavirus crisis may simply accelerate key macro trends already underway, creating a volatile backdrop for chemical companies to navigate on the road to recovery. Four key macro trends are shaping global discontentment: growing income [...]
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Sustainability takes the spotlight in the offshore industry

“When it comes to the energy transition, one thing is clear: We are not going to switch off oil and gas from one day to the next. That’s why it is called a transition. It’s [...]
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Data is key to supporting sector through the energy transition

The sudden requirement to work from home and therefore access data remotely has thrown many companies headfirst into digitalisation, whether they felt ready for it or not. What was perceived as a mammoth challenge, pre-coronavirus, [...]
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Oxford Flow investment to fuel innovation and digitalisation

Oxford Flow – the flow control equipment specialist for oil, gas, water and industrial process industries – recently announced an initial investment into its water and industrials business by GF Piping Systems, a division of [...]
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The time to challenge. The time to create the new normal.

There is no doubt that the double hit of COVID-19 and the continuing low oil price have left our industry in crisis. What is also not in doubt is that collectively we have never had [...]
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‘Lifeline for many’: UK furlough extension for oil and gas businesses

In light of the announcement of the UK furlough scheme being extended to October, Louise Bancroft, Group HR Director, Airswift – the global workforce solutions company for the energy, process and infrastructure sectors – explains [...]
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The chemical industry’s response to a crisis while in crisis

We often forget how vital the chemical industry is to our well-being, safety and daily lives. The stigma around the issue of plastics waste in the environment often overshadows the progress the industry has made [...]
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Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the SDGs are even more relevant today than ever before

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana, and Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway – Co-chairs of the UN Secretary-General’s Eminent Group of Advocates for the SDGs – discuss why the UN’s [...]
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New and old challenges facing the oil and gas sector

The oil and gas sector is currently being hit on two fronts: first, by the global impact of the coronavirus pandemic and secondly, by the fall in oil price. Following failed talks between Saudi Arabia [...]
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Electrifying the merchant fleet

The time for broad-brush references to alternative energy sources has passed. If shipping is to halve its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in line with the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) target for 2050, owners need precise [...]
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May heralds even more disruption and uncertainty for petrochemicals

The impact of the coronavirus lockdowns on the oil, gas and chemicals industries’ integrated value chains is radically shifting relationships and profitability. It is also making planning virtually impossible, as BASF suggested last week. The [...]
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Fundamental shift required to address the skills dilemma

Since being made redundant in the oil downturn in 1986, I have listened to energy company CEO’s extol the importance of their people, only to witness large-scale redundancies to cut costs whenever the commodity price [...]
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Why autonomous drones are now crucial to business continuity

For companies that remain active and those that have temporarily shut down in light of the Coronavirus crisis, autonomous technology is playing a significant and growing role in maintaining business continuity. Business continuity refers to [...]
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Instant, reliable battery power at all times

When North Sea Giant was delivered to her Norwegian owner, North Sea Shipping AS, in 2011, she was the world’s most advanced offshore construction vessel. After an upgrade including the installation of triple-redundant battery banks [...]
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Ace Oil Tools delivers savings in a close tolerance application through the use of the Ace Ratchet Collar

In all downhole applications, the secure placement of tools and accessories on the outside of the casing or completion string is a critical factor. On average, it is estimated that 50 centralizer tools typically need [...]

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