Benjamin Franklin said: “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail” and, whilst this is a very frequently-quoted phrase which many of us in business will have heard countless times, it has never been more pertinent writes Bruce Skinner, Director of Alto.
“We attract the best employees and help them learn, grow and realise their dreams through mentoring and other career development assistance,” Aker Solutions says on its website.
By Heather Jones, CEO at SAIC, the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre
It’s not often that the aquaculture and energy sectors are talked about in the same sentence in Scotland. Yet, in Norway, for example, salmon is often considered to be the long-term replacement for oil and gas as the linchpin of the country’s economy.
By Tom Baxter, former senior lecturer in chemical engineering at Aberdeen University.
In my position as a university lecturer, a parent and as a friend to many younger people, it is clear that a large portion believe that fossil fuels are bad.
Benjamin Franklin said: “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail” and, whilst this is a very frequently-quoted phrase which many of us in business will have heard countless times, it has never been more pertinent writes Bruce Skinner, Director of Alto.
While the shift from hydrocarbons to renewables is far from smooth, investment opportunities in the generation, service and utility markets are proliferating as the sector landscape evolves.
The Aberdeen-based Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) is setting up a unit called the Net Zero Solution Centre with the aim of “accelerating technologies and their deployment” and helping turn the UKCS into the world’s first net-zero carbon basin.
By Jean Morrison, chair of Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (Areg)
With the Crown Estate’s recent announcement of offshore wind leasing round four, there is a fantastic opportunity for offshore wind developers to get involved in the first leasing round of its type in more than 10 years.
By Paula Paterson is a senior consultant at Dekra Organisational Reliability
Encouraging accountability in the workplace with the ultimate goal of creating an organisation characterised by responsibility, motivation and engagement is a matter of cultivating positive behaviours and discouraging negative ones.
The eagerly awaited IR35 off-payroll draft legislation was published by the UK Government in mid-July, extending the public sector IR35 changes to large and medium-sized businesses in the private sector.
By Sam Laidlaw, executive chairman of Neptune Energy Group
As the saying goes, “talk is cheap”. I’m not so sure. The lower carbon economy is at the top of most agendas nowadays – for the UK and international governments, for major industries including oil and gas, and now for the general public.
Across the energy industries, it’s now commonly recognized that if you have critical infrastructure, you are not only at risk, but will likely experience a cyber incident at some point. So, what can you do to mitigate this risk, and what cyber security myths still exist in the industrial digital journey?
The energy sector gender pay gap (GPG) remained relatively high last year thanks in part to the traditionally male-dominated oil and gas sector – but the changing nature of employment could offer the chance to change that.
As someone who has been canvassing for a UK rigs to reefs initiative for many years, I was pleased to see the topic raised on a number of occasions at the recent Aberdeen, Offshore Europe conference.
Nobody expected Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman’s new job to be easy, but it is doubtful even he could have predicted how difficult his first few days would be.
By Will Sheard, global due diligence lead at K2 Management
With the UK’s onshore wind industry calling on Government to establish a new strategy for the sector, a lot has been said of the potential for repowering existing projects and whether these projects can be delivered in a post-subsidy environment.
By Nick Fothergill, partner in the corporate team of law firm Hewitsons
The community energy sector in the UK has had a difficult time in recent years. 2018 saw continued reductions in the Feed-in Tariffs, and then in December 2018 the UK Government announced the closure of the Feed-in Tariff scheme to new applications from 31 March 2019.
Oil and gas companies face an increasing risk of government investigations and significant financial penalties if they do not take appropriate steps to comply with international sanctions measures.