Students and graduates facing up to the challenges of finding work in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic have an opportunity to gain career advice at an online event next week.
To describe the last few months as a challenging period for the energy sector would be an understatement.
Governments are on course to miss the Paris Agreement with deep decarbonisation of the world’s energy system still 15 years away, according to a new forecast.
Gabriel Podskubka, Tenaris Eastern Hemisphere President, speaks exclusively to Energy Voice about the company’s response to the Covid-19 outbreak, the lessons learned, and its ambitions for the future.
This year will be remembered for many complex challenges and changes. It may also be the year that many business leaders truly discovered what leadership is all about.
There are as many opinions of good leadership as there are management books and business schools. For me, the important priorities are being honest, transparent and authentic, having a clear vision of your goal, a clear strategy to reach that goal, and the empathy, energy, commitment and confidence to inspire your team to work collaboratively towards it. It is also important to innovate, to do things differently, to find new ways, to be agile and to be supportive. Communication of all of this is key.
A leading skills body is warning the oil and gas sector it needs to act swiftly or risk losing thousands of engineers capable of delivering the energy transition.
Shell will "compensate" vessel accommodation owner Prosafe for a 10-month deferral of a UK North Sea contract.
Lord Ian Duncan has raised concerns that a lack of money post-Covid could leave governments unable to make the policy interventions needed to drive the energy transition.
Specialist rig inspection company Aberdeen Drilling Consultants (ADC) has been helping hundreds of oil workers around the world learn how to maintain drilling operations since the onset of Covid-19.
More than half of exhibition space for Offshore Europe, due to return to Aberdeen in 12 months’ time, has been sold, despite Covid-19.
Hunting laid off about 20 employees in the north-east during the first half of 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic and oil price drop caused demand to falter.
Global Engineering and Construction (E&C) has “reshuffled” its north-east facilities footprint in an effort to “stabilise” the company amid the Covid-19 and low oil price crisis.
UK oil workers are eligible for an exemption to new rules restricting travel to Norway, the country’s government has advised.
Profits dropped 59% at James Fisher and Sons in the first half of 2020 amid the “unprecedented headwinds” of Covid-19.
Revenues at Anasuria Hibiscus UK have dropped 98% as the company deferred oil sales in hopes of a recovery in the price of Brent Crude.
CNOOC has confirmed the deferral of Buzzard Phase 2, a major project to extend the life of one of the North Sea’s largest-producing oil fields.
With the UK oil and gas market reeling from COVID-19, it’s clear that the decisions made by businesses in this industry as they focus on a recovery in the coming months need to be strategic, measured and informed.
Big Oil is tapping Big Tech to keep drilling off the shores of Brazil even as the global pandemic traps workers at home.
President Donald Trump helped to clinch an unprecedented deal among the world’s largest crude producers, but the pact hasn’t stopped America’s oil industry from bleeding.
Bosses at Prosafe have lamented a “lost year” after it slumped to pre-tax losses of £683 million ($895m) in the first half 2020.
The drive to ensure the UK oil and gas sector is taking collective action to stimulate its own recovery will be thrown into focus in an industry webinar next week.
Energy service firm Wood has reduced its headcount by around 10,000 since the start of 2020 due to divestments and its response to the Covid-19 pandemic and lower oil prices.
Applications have opened for the second round of grants for the self-employed to help them through the Covid-19 pandemic.
Going to the supermarket has never been a favourite activity – and particularly during a pandemic.