I spent this week in Aberdeen with a group of operators and contractors who are pro-actively addressing well integrity challenges across their existing assets. The group’s well stock, conditions, te...

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Prolonged challenging market conditions have posed existential threats to operators, contractors and in the case of the North Sea, arguably, an entire basin. The severity and rate of market deteriorat...

While well intervention spending has been hit harder than average industry cuts, the opportunities are still there to be had, not least from mature North Sea assets, delegates at Offshore Network’s ...

Innovation, along with ‘collaboration’, ‘standardisation’ and even ‘strategy’, is a buzzword of the day. But what does innovation even mean in the Oil & Gas industry? For some, it is e...

The North Sea is a mature basin, and as with all mature basins the lack of drilling activity over the past 18 months has placed a greater demand on old assets to maintain or increase production levels...

Along with safety and integrity, cashflow remains a key priority for oil and gas companies. But after two years of budget cuts, the industry has been set in a default position of protection and surviv...