OTC has come around again – it begins Monday – which always presents an opportunity for some navel-gazing about the state of the industry or whatever. I have to admit that I rather miss going to Houston – it has been five years now since my last visit – even […]
Steve Sasanow
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Here are a few names to conjour with: Ultramar Exploration, Thomson North Sea, Monument Resources, British Borneo Oil & Gas , Union Jack Oil, Westburne Oil, Pict Petroleum and Edinburgh Oil & Gas. These were some of the small, very small and minnow-like companies who were licence holders in earlier […]
I was at the Natural Resources Forum event in London recently which was a ‘talking heads’ on the future of the North Sea. One topic of focus was decommissioning and I was quite surprised to hear one of the speakers talking about ‘monetising’ the value of decommissioning. This seemed not […]
After my previous blog, Phil Cooper of Xodus wrote, ‘No need to worry about experience leaving the industry. Automated design, IoT and Machine Learning will take care of everything!’ Now I am not sure if he was kidding or not, but that comment made me ponder ‘could the offshore industry […]
I have never been big on surveys – they are usually meant only to re-affirm what the client already knows or thinks they want to know. One I do rate, though, is a quite well known one done by McKinsey & Co at least 15 years ago about the uptake […]
Hello – I’m back – no, this is not an April Fool’s Day joke. I haven’t ever really been away, but when one’s former organ is now in someone else’s hand, it becomes a bit difficult to maintain the same profile. A long-time reader of the missives from my previous […]