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Peterson's National Apprenticeship Week - Interview with Stuart White, Peterson

Peterson's National Apprenticeship Week - Interview with Stuart White, Peterson I'm here on the key side at Torry Marine base on the final day of national apprenticeship week which has been a fantastic collaboration between Peterson and SDS and a number of other organisations. I'm here today with Stuart White a director at Peterson and Andrew Mutch one of the apprentices from 80/...

Peterson's National Apprenticeship Week - Interview with Amanda Mason, SDS

Peterson's National Apprenticeship Week - Interview with Amanda Mason, SDS I have with me Amanda from Skills Development Scotland and Bradley one of the apprentices for Peterson group. Amanda. Tell me more about National Apprenticeship Week. Why is it something that SDS are so passionate about? It's really important to highlight the importance of apprenticeships throughout the whole of Scotland foundation model and graduate apprenticeship programs are really important to engage you...

Peterson's National Apprenticeship Week - Interview with Lewis Macdonald, MSP

Peterson's National Apprenticeship Week - Interview with Lewis Macdonald, MSP I'm here today with Lewis MacDonald MSP from the Scottish Parliament who has long championed the work of apprentices in Scotland and is here today supporting the Peterson and SDS initiative. Lewis, apprenticeships have long been a source of passion for you. You've done a lot of work in this sector. Yes, I have and it's a number of years since I was Scottish government minister with responsibility...

Subsea Expo 2020 - Event overview by Neil Gordon, Chief Executive at Subsea UK

It's the 11th Hour at Subsea 2020 and I'm here with Neil Gordon, Chief Executive of Subsea UK. Congratulations, another fantastic event under your belt, how you feeling at the moment? Apart from feeling tired I'm relieved, we’ve had a fantastic few days and it’s been really good, we’re not sure of the full numbers we've had through yet, but quite a number of thousands from around the UK and around the world as well. We started off on Tuesday and the theme...

Proserv Controls- Interview with Davis Larssen, Chief Executive Officer

Interview with Proserv Controls, Davis Larssen Davis Larssen, Chief Executive Officer for Proserv Controls  My name is Davis Larssen, I am the Chief Executive Officer for Proserv Controls. As part of my new role, I’ve been tasked to lead the strategy in the future direction of Proserv Controls, focusing our global offering to satisfy our customers. On October 1st Proserv announced a corporate restructuring, why has this occurred and how does this impact the company?...

ADIPEC 2019 Augmented and Virtual Reality Applications by Booth Welsh

ADIPEC 2019 Augmented and virtual reality applications by Booth Welsh   Martin Welsh- Managing Director at Booth Welsh I’d like you to tell us a bit about the products that you have got on show today. We’ve brought along to the show some technology that we’ve been using for two to three years, it originated in the pharmaceutical industry and used in other industries widely. Digital technology can help us reduce our client’s costs and increase in safety an...

ADIPEC 2019 Motive Offshore wins new contract with Technip FMC

ADIPEC 2019- Motive offshore wins new contract with Technip FMC James Gregg- Chief operations officer at Motive Offshore   This is day 2 of ADIPEC, how are you finding it so far? Its been really good, this is my first time here although my company is been here for 2 or 3 years. I’m very impressed with the scale and how well organised things are. You’ve recently had a big contract win with Technip is that correct? That is correct, it's from our spooling and...

ADIPEC 2019 Medco North Provide Pipe Inspection for Coiled Tubing Companies

ADIPEC 2019 MEDCO NORTH provide pipe inspection for coiled tubing companies   Karim Mahdi- CSO at MEDCO Can you tell us about what your company does? MEDCO was found in 1992, we’re an oil and gas technology company, we develop technologies designed for improving pipe inspection for coil tubing service companies. We’ve got several packages for our software and hardware that we build for the data collection, we collect the data in the field and give access to our clien...

ADIPEC 2019 ICR interview with Alan Taylor

ADIPEC 2019 ICR interview with Alan Taylor   Alan Taylor Middle East General Manager at ICR You are a general manager here at ICR, placed in Abu Dhabi for the last couple of years, how have you seen things turn around in the last couple of months? In the last year, we’ve seen an increase in the amount of activity in the market here. we’ve recently been ADNOC approved for our composite repair product, and we are also offering some new technology to the region here. We...

ADIPEC 2019 Proserv - Production Control Experts

ADIPEC 2019 PROSERV - production control experts   Michael Purkiss - VP of Services at Proserv How are you finding ADIPEC over the last few days? It's excellent, it's been really good, there is a real buzz about it this year and I think everything is on the upturn, you can certainly see it from the attendance and the general buzz about the place. For those who don’t know you, can you tell us a bit about who Proserv are and what you do? We’re a controls...

ADIPEC 2019 ROVOP - Subsea Robotic Services

ADIPEC 2019 ROVOP - Subsea Robotic Services   David Lamont - CEO at ROVOP Firstly, can I ask you about the mood in the camp here at ADIPEC this year? One, of course, is optimism, people sense that the industry is regaining in strength, there is a lot of change, there is a lot of talk about new technology, the application of new technology, digitalisation. Overall, the mood is a very positive one. In terms of what’s happening at ROVOP at the moment, both domestica...

Future Downstream 2019 - BP "Growing new capabilities in the digital space"

Future Downstream 2019 - BP "Growing new capabilities in the digital space" Elena Cinquegrana - Director of Digital Products & Partnerships, Downstream Digital at BP   Which is the area of growth within BP in 2020? Our main area focus at the moment is growing our capabilities in the digital space. We are investing a lot in new talents, especially those workforces that are not coming from native oil and gas. Attracting talents that are coming from a different backgr...

Future Downstream 2019 - "Data is an Asset" - Interview with Dr. Satyam from HALLIBURTON

Future Downstream 2019 - "Data is an Asset" - Interview with Dr. Satyam from HALLIBURTON Dr. Satyam Priyadarshy, Technology Fellow and Chief Data Scientist at Halliburton   Why do you believe data is an asset? If you think of data, data is the foundation for all the processes in our industry and it is one of the assets that has been collected for hundreds of years. Nothing works without data whether it is the first principles that we use or whether we use simulati...

DDPNS 2019 - DELL TECHNOLOGIES - AI and data can improve oil field operations

DDPNS 2019 - DELL TECHNOLOGIES - AI and data can improve oil field operations Julian Alfred, Sales Enablement Lead- Global Energy Program- Dell Technologies.   So, you're one of the keynote speakers from this morning, what were the key themes of your presentation? Well, as you know, the oil and gas industry is really trying to optimise the way in which we do production. We want to reduce costs. We want to keep operation safe and one of the ways in which companies are tr...

SAFE INFLUX - Pioneering Automated Well Control Solutions in support of the OGTC

SAFE INFLUX - Pioneering Automated Well Control Solutions in support of the OGTC   Interview with Malcolm Banks, Well Construction Solution Centre Manager at The Oil and Gas Technology Centre.  The opportunities that Safe Influx bring are automation and reduction of reliance on a driller in a well control situation. It's a really important opportunity for automation in the industry. From an Oil and Gas Technology Center perspective, we're very ke...

Offshore Europe 2019 - JDR CABLE SYSTEMS Subsea Tiebacks

Offshore Europe 2019 - JDR CABLE SYSTEMS Subsea Tiebacks   Can you start off by telling us a bit about the company and what you do? JDR Cable systems makes Subsea umbilical’s and cables. We supply those to all the major operators in the oil and gas sector and all the epic contractors, they’re a vital connection, they’re the link between subsea hardware and topside so it’s all about the extraction and power that enables the operators to extract the oil and ga...

Offshore Europe 2019 - HARPER UK mobilisation and demobilisation in Subsea

Interview with David Duncan, Director at Harper UK  Can you start off by telling me a little bit about Harper UK and what you do? At Harper UK we are a steel fabrication business and we have a Subsea Basket firm; we have about 300 assets and we do a lot of our bets on mobilisation and demobilisation. We have got a PPB (Portable Power Unit) that we use for this so we can get guys on the vessel within one lift, it saves the clients a lot of money. What brings you to Offshore Europe...

Offshore Europe 2019 - STATS GROUP Critical Isolation Products provide the highest pipeline isolation

Interview with Ron James, Sales Director at STATS  Could you start off by telling me a little bit about STATS and any products that you are showcasing here at Offshore Europe? We are showcasing our Critical Isolation Products that we now successfully distribute all over the world, in all the major oil and gas markets. It’s been a fantastic year for STATS this year so we want to continue that with our export. What brings you to Offshore Europe? The opportunity to showcase o...

Offshore Europe 2019 - HYDROPULSION New Spincat Stoneage product maximising jet power

Interview with Barry Reid, Technical Manager at Hydropulsion  Do you want to start off by telling us about the company and some of the products that you are showcasing here? At Hydrpulsion we are a down-hole tool designer and manufacturer for coil tubing applications. On our stand here we’ve got our Spincat who are the authorised dealer for Stoneage for this range of control rotation tools. These are used for well clean outs, cleaning scale, sand, cement plugs and pretty much an...

Offshore Europe 2019 - TAAP Digital Transformation for oil and gas industry through APP

Interview with Andrew Murphy, Account Director at TAAP Could you start of by telling me a little bit about TAAP and what the company does? TAAP is an enterprise application platform so, we digitise end-to-end process using collection data from mobile devices, any mobile device, online offline and then analyse the data and report from the data, trending the data. It can be any industry, any process. For oil and gas we’re looking at asset integrity and enormity management. What brin...
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