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Blackwood Partners: What actions can employers take in light of 14 day quarantine for travellers? By Erica Kinmond, Head of Employment, Blackwood Partners LLP

Blackwood Partners: What actions can employers take in light of 14 day quarantine for travellers? By Erica Kinmond, Head of Employment, Blackwood Partners LLP   In recent weeks we have seen the “air bridges” so recently established with countries such as Spain, Luxembourg, France and the Netherlands slam closed on short notice with thousands of travellers then rushing to...

Celebrating two years of global growth and success for Bureau Veritas Solutions Marine & Offshore

Celebrating two years of global growth and success for Bureau Veritas Solutions Marine & Offshore   Next month Bureau Veritas, a world leader in testing, inspection and certification services, will mark the second anniversary of the successful launch of its family of experts - Bureau Veritas Solutions Marine & Offshore (BV Solutions M&O) with performance figures exceeding targets each year and new contracts continuing throughout 2020. BV Solutions M&O was establishe...

ICR continues its ambitious international growth strategy

ICR continues its ambitious international growth strategy   ICR Integrity Ltd (ICR) is a leading provider of integrated maintenance, repair and production solutions for industrial related services to the offshore oil and gas, power, chemical, nuclear and defence industries worldwide. ICR is headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland, and has regional hubs in England, Norway, USA and the UAE with a JV relationship in Australia. The business has grown organically overseas from these bases, how...

Innovation & Diversification

Innovation & Diversification   Increased environmental awareness from investors and the general public coincided with one of the worst shocks to the oil and gas industry in recent memory. The oil and gas sector had just started to recover from the 2014-2016 downturn when the coronavirus-inflicted shock to oil and gas demand and prices had the companies strategise how to thrive in the energy transition in a world where oil demand may never recover to pre-pandemic levels and oil...

Share your Innovation - Present your Plan - Brief your Team

Share your Innovation - Present your Plan - Brief your Team   Sometimes innovation lies in assembling some readily available and inexpensive components and applying them in a smart way to overcome a particular challenge. At Marketec we feel that the challenge is meeting and communicating effectively with your clients, your team or your stakeholders. Face-to-face meetings are largely unavailable and on-line conference calls or webinars are the currently the preferred alternative. Bu...

CHECK IN AND OUT SAFELY

CHECK IN AND OUT SAFELY   TAAP visitor book is a contactless, hygienic way for Guests, Contractors, Suppliers, and Employees to seamlessly check in and check out of premises. Taap's new app is available for the energy sector, and being fully GDPR compliant, TAAP Visitor Book provides an extremely cost-effective solution to meet the new way of working. No hardware required, just the ability to scan a QR code via any IOS or Android Smartphone. Visitor Types is a feature of the...

First steps towards new diversification strategy

First steps towards new diversification strategy Namaka Compliance assists with Local Content in Trinidad and Tobago as part of a Diversification Strategy   This forms the organisations diversification strategy to look outside the UK rather than being solely reliant on just the UKCS as a revenue stream. Whilst many look to try and increase opportunities in many of the existing markets, Namaka Compliance has targeted Trinidad and Tobago (TT). Namaka Compliance a Division of Namak...

International opportunities & diversification

International opportunities & diversification   Arnlea Systems Ltd, the global leader in industrial mobile software for tracking, inspection and maintenance for the oil & gas industry, is based in Aberdeen. Success in its local market has been considerable for the SaaS provider, with the majority of North Sea installations using their inspection software, IntrinsixEX for its ATEX inspections and reporting.  The opportunities for Arnlea’s inspection and asset managem...

“The View from Down Under”

“The View from Down Under”   Greetings from Perth in the depths of what passes for Winter in these parts. Those of us who are fortunate to live in Western Australia are anxiously watching our compatriots in Melbourne as they endure another lockdown. Thankfully at the time of writing the spike of the 2nd wave appears to be on a downward trend. Enquiries are taking place at the moment as to how this outbreak got so out of control, from the information in the public dom...

Export opportunities in the new COVID world

Export opportunities in the new COVID world   OGV Energy sat down with Stuart Broadley, Chief Executive of Energy Industries Council, the UK’s largest energy trade association, to discuss export opportunities in the new COVID world. Q1. The EIC is a global organisation with offices in London, Dubai, Rio de Janeiro, Houston and Kuala Lumpur. How has COVID-19 affected your business? Like every business, we had to act quickly to protect our employees while complying with diff...

OGV Energy's Europe Energy Review - September 2020

OGV Energy's Europe Energy Review - September 2020   In recent weeks, the biggest European oil and gas companies have reported their second-quarter results, while governments, associations, and analysts have published reports on how clean energy solutions could accelerate the economic recovery in the UK and Europe after the coronavirus crisis. Oil & Gas Norway’s Equinor reported significantly lower adjusted earnings for the second quarter, compared to the same peri...

U.S. oil companies gird for major policy shift as presidential elections loom

U.S. oil companies gird for major policy shift as presidential elections loom   U.S. oil producers are bracing for a Democratic victory in the November presidential elections, which many fear will mean significant restrictions on new drilling. Former Vice President Joe Biden won the Democratic nomination in mid-August, setting up a showdown with President Donald Trump in November. Biden, who is leading Trump in the polls, has vowed to cease all new drilling on federal lands and in...

OGV Energy's Middle East Energy Review – September 2020

OGV Energy's Middle East Energy Review – September 2020   Just as OPEC and its Russia-led partners in the OPEC+ group began to ease the record crude oil production cuts in August, the cartel downgraded its global oil demand outlook for 2020, citing longer-lasting impact from the coronavirus on economies and oil consumption.  Major oil exporters from the Middle East saw their oil revenues further sliding and deficits widening in the second quarter, while the single b...

OGV Energy's UK North Sea Oil & Gas Review – September 2020

OGV Energy's UK North Sea Oil & Gas Review – September 2020   Opportunities for a green recovery, the prospects of the UK oil and gas industry in the energy transition, new strategies from the biggest UK-based oil firm, and a number of deals in the North Sea were the highlights in the energy sector this past month. According to the Just Transition Commission Advice for a Green Recovery in Scotland, a large-scale decommissioning programme could drive critical activity...

The future looks bright for Brimmond Group

The future looks bright for Brimmond Group   Sustainable cost reductions and cyclical initiatives only go so far in helping oil and gas companies navigate what has become an increasingly challenging operating environment; one further exacerbated by the recent impact of an ongoing global pandemic. Those able to succeed are the organisations that have been able to adjust to this ever-changing environment; either by diversifying their portfolios, introducing new services and commercia...

OPEC sees headwinds ahead, cuts 2020, 2021 demand forecasts for its crude

OPEC sees headwinds ahead, cuts 2020, 2021 demand forecasts for its crude   OPEC's cautious optimism in July that the global economy was rebounding faster than expected from the coronavirus pandemic has dimmed, just as the oil exporting bloc and its allies are easing off their historic production cuts. OPEC on Aug. 12 issued its latest oil market forecast, revising down its projection of global demand by almost 100,000 b/d for both 2020 and 2021. At the same time, non-OPEC s...

“The View from Down Under” Australia and New Zealand Energy Overview

“The View from Down Under”   As with the rest of the planet, COVID has had a massive impact on the ANZ region, up to now Australia and New Zealand have done very well in terms of low infection numbers, however we are watching events unfold in Melbourne with concern. Onshore and Offshore rig activity has taken a severe blow, 2020 is pretty much a write off. Rig count had been slowly recovering from the low point early in 2017 when just 2 rigs were active off ANZ coasts,...

Training & Upskilling Could Help UK Offshore Industry Recover

Training & Upskilling Could Help UK Offshore Industry Recover   The health, economic, and oil price crises during the coronavirus pandemic hit the UK offshore oil and gas industry just as it had recovered from the previous oil price collapse in 2015-2016.   Operators had returned investing in the UK North Sea and the supply chain had started to feel the positive effects of renewed optimism after the 2016 oil price lows.  But this year’s COVID-19 ‘black...

OGV Energy's European Energy Review

OGV Energy's European Energy Review   Oil and gas discoveries, new licensing rounds in Norway, proposals for pathways to green recovery, and a number of renewable energy and hydrogen projects in the UK were the highlights of Europe’s energy news in the past month.   Oil & Gas Norway aims to offer 136 blocks for oil and gas exploration in the licensing round for less explored areas on its shelf, including 125 blocks in the Arctic Barents Sea that are currently...

Across North America, producers begin to ease toward normal, but uncertainty looms

Across North America, producers begin to ease toward normal, but uncertainty looms   As the lockdowns from COVID-19 began easing across the North America, a cautious optimism began to creep across the Oil Patch. West Texas Intermediate crude, the U.S. benchmark that briefly turned negative at the end of April, rebounded to about $40 a barrel. For most companies, the price was still too low to justify investment in new drilling, but oil producers waited anxiously to see if it might kee...
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