Supporting colleagues to navigate the new normal
This year has seen the world gradually ease into a new normal, following two years of uncertainty and restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Opinion
CMS: How can the UK energy industry best shift the dial on Diversity and Inclusion?”
OEUK’s Diversity and Inclusion Report last year, which garnered the views of some 1600 people from over 100 organisations in the UK Oil and Gas industry, made for sobering, if unsurprising, reading.
Jeremy Cresswell: The failings of Diversity & Inclusion in UK offshore energy
It’s a part of life … every second of every day, myriad people are handled unfairly, wittingly or otherwise.
Dick Winchester: The people’s interest should come first amid energy crisis
I have never accepted the artificial division of politics into left or right wing. There are policies that work for people and lead to economic, industrial and social progress and policies that don’t and any political party is capable of producing either.
Brian Wilson: Starmer’s Great British Energy proposal is sign of the times
A month is indeed a long time in politics. Since I last wrote here, we have a new Prime Minister, a crashing pound and an unprecedented scale of intervention in the energy markets in an effort to stave off the worst impacts of impending price rises.
With great aspiration comes great expectation – the UAE’s opportunity to become a global green powerhouse
The current supply crunch and record-high energy prices, combined with the rapid social, economic and environmental changes are fundamentally reshaping the global political, economic, and societal landscape in which the sector operates.
Is it time to change the identity of the energy industry?
How far ahead, or how far behind, are you when it comes to diversity, equality and inclusion (DE&I) initiatives?
Shale Shock
This is the stuff of a Whitehall Farce.
How automating wind turbines can support the growing renewables sector
By 2026, renewables are set to make up almost 95 per cent of increased global power capacity. The increased capacity will have a knock-on effect on the wind industry, growing the challenges already faced, such as Remote Operations Centres (ROC) struggling with the increased assets to monitor.
Energy cost crisis likely to fuel climate activism
A judicial review decision in Scotland’s Court of Session over the summer provides further evidence of a growing wave of post-COP26 challenges to governments over their commitment in delivering on net zero pledges.
Turning the green hydrogen dream into reality
The challenges to making green hydrogen production commercially viable can be tackled if the right technology and economic infrastructure are in place, writes Maria Anez-Lingerfelt, senior scientist at Pall Corporation.
ESG: delivering ‘proper and measurable stewardship’
Climate change and energy transition, shifting from a linear to a circular economy, rising inequality, balancing economic needs with those of society – these are the unprecedented global challenges we all face. Investors, banks, regulators, as well as consumers and employees, are scrutinising businesses like never before and demanding that we address these challenges.
Pushing for key renewables roles to be recognised as ‘skilled’ may help to ease talent crisis
Industry has to respond to Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) call for representations for additions to shortage occupation list
Mind the cap
Record-breaking commodity prices resulting in sky-high gas and electricity prices have prompted calls for fundamental market reform. The European Union (EU) announced in September 2022 that it is looking to impose historic interventions in the energy market to rein in soaring commodity prices, including considering a levy on excess profits and potential gas price caps.
In Europe, the path to net-zero goes through the North Sea
Earlier this month, energy leaders from across the world descended on Stavanger, Norway, for the annual Offshore Northern Seas (ONS) conference.
Russia-driven crisis exposes UK’s energy madhouse
With gas prices now more than five times the cost of a barrel of North Sea benchmark Brent Blend, the outlook for energy across Europe including the UK, is shocking.
Dick Winchester: What’s next for the North Sea?
I spent nearly ten very happy and rewarding years working offshore with a great bunch of people operating deep water manned submersibles and ROVs mainly in the N Sea.
Managing the oil and gas development conundrum
If the industry’s focus in 2021 (especially leading up to the COP26 summit) was on climate change action, the story of 2022 has been how to balance energy transition with the need to ensure security and affordability of energy supplies.
EV Private Equity ‘actively searching’ to invest in green shipping
Financing next-generation solutions will drive significant carbon reductions for the decades ahead, writes sustainable energy investor EV Private Equity Senior Partner and Impact Lead, Einar Gamman, and Lars Sund, Associate.
Let’s stop scaring the children
How long will it be before someone writes a book about all the “C”s currently crowding our collective consciousnesses?
Building the right ecosystem is key to future prosperity for the North Sea
Increasing political and social pressures regarding energy transition and security has once again thrust the North Sea into a period of significant transformation.
Opinion: Re-connecting with what truly matters
If you were to be asked what you believe in, what you value, would the answers come easily? Or would you have to take some time to consider, perhaps finding it challenging to find the answers?
‘Damning’ IEEFA report into CCS is too simplistic
The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) recently published a report examining carbon capture and storage (CCS), which claimed many sequestration projects have failed or underperformed. Environmentalists described it as "damning", but Professor Stuart Haszeldine, director of Scottish Carbon Capture & Storage (SCCS), believes it is too simplistic.
Brian Wilson: Energy crisis met with policy vacuum
It’s a couple of months since I suggested the energy crisis would be as big as Covid and thereby demand the same scale of response. It wasn’t a very fashionable thought but perceptions have moved rapidly – everywhere, except where it matters most, in government.
Boosting clean energy transitions in emerging economies
Our climate and energy future increasingly hinges on the ability of emerging economies to successfully transition to cleaner energy production.