Nasa is set to bring a space-age touch to US energy firms after announcing a partnership with Deloitte’s centre for energy solutions to offer services to the oil and gas industry.
Deloite has linked up with the American space administration’s Johnson Space Center will offer risk-management services aimed at companies looking to minimise the risk of catastrophic failure that energy firms can face working in remote environments.
“Activities like deep-water drilling, undersea production and pipeline operations all face the same kind of ‘black swan’ events that pose a threat to space exploration,” Deloitte said in a statement.
“The strategic alliance with Nasa will integrate the space agency’s 50-plus years of experience preventing and recovering from catastrophic accidents in human space flight into Deloitte’s advanced-risk strategies – applying state-of-science capabilities to oil and gas companies.”
The companies will jointly offer risk-sciences services, includinging modelling and simulation of the kind used by NASA in its space programme.