Energy Voice – Out Loud

EVOL: Labour licensing fears, Aberdeen investment cheers and Total AGM tears

Another week, another round of speculation as to the future of North Sea licensing.
This week brought to you in paid partnership with Scottish Enterprise, Allister catches us up on last week’s Sunday papers and Keir Starmer’s plan to end new oil and gas licensing in the North Sea – and the ensuing confusion and consternation from the sector.  
Ryan gauges reaction to the plans from the north east, and attempts to answer the question: is Aberdeen still the energy capital of Europe?
Finally, Andrew reports from a week of supermajor AGMs which saw a groundswell of support for climate resolutions at TotalEnergies and a thorough backlash at Exxon and Chevron across the pond.
 
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Gigawaters 02 - 03: Economic impact of the wind power ecosystem

Going beyond the energy transition, the goal for ScotWind is to unlock billions of pounds in investment in Scotland. This investment benefits not only individual projects, but helps Scotland in terms of economic growth. Investment in new innovations and technologies, such as floating wind, will have an effect on skills, supply chain, R&D and infrastructure in ways that highlight the benefits of the energy and the net zero transition. 
For the third episode of the second season of Gigawaters, Sustainable Growth Voice editor, Felicia Jackson, is joined by co-host, Emma Toulson, Lead Stakeholder Advisor at Orsted, and special guest, Claire Canning, Program Manager for the Offshore Wind Growth Partnership, part of the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult.
 
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Energy Voice investigates and reports on what matters in global energy, helping sector leaders understand the geopolitical and economic factors underpinning current events, and giving them a view on what’s coming over the horizon. Each year, 3.4m professionals use Energy Voice as a trusted source of breaking news and insight.
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EVOL: A call for female representation in the board room, the future of Kenyan oil and a move away from the ’God Pod’

This week served to shine a light on the board rooms of UK Energy firms, offering some sobering figures on the lack of women holding top positions in the industry. Energy Voice dived into these figures and spoke to those who compiled them to highlight the issue and potentially offer a solution.
From UK board rooms to an oil field in Kenya, this week Africa Oil and the French supermajor, TotalEnergies, decided to up sticks from the Lokichar field which always seems to be just 'a month away' from kicking off. Looking for some serious investment to get the project running, the one remaining shareholder might look to a firm in China with deep pockets to finally get this field going. 
Our globe-hopping adventure rounds out in Dallas as we look to an office block that would make JR proud. ExxonMobil looks to ditch its lavish 'God Pod' in favour of a more modern working environment. However, we are still asking, what are African stairs
 
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Energy Voice investigates and reports on what matters in global energy, helping sector leaders understand the geopolitical and economic factors underpinning current events, and giving them a view on what’s coming over the horizon. Each year, 3.4m professionals use Energy Voice as a trusted source of breaking news and insight.
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EVOL: CCS awards, Nigerian refineries, and Japanese cable factories

It has been a big week for the UK’s carbon capture and storage ambitions, with the award of 20 offshore licences to 12 companies. But a lack of detail on the winners has raised eyebrows, amongst the Energy Voice team anyway.
Next we’re off to Nigeria, where the ribbon is due to be cut on the Dangote refinery, a step change in the Atlantic Basin trade. President Muhammadu Buhari will be in town, but is it a plaque opening, or a commissioning of the facility. Who knows? Well, Ed does.
And news that Sumitomo is planning to build an offshore wind cable manufacturing facility in the Scottish Highlands broke last month, but one ScotWind partner had a big hand in convincing the company to make the leap of faith. It’d be nice if others followed suit……
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Energy Voice investigates and reports on what matters in global energy, helping sector leaders understand the geopolitical and economic factors underpinning current events, and giving them a view on what’s coming over the horizon. Each year, 3.4m professionals use Energy Voice as a trusted source of breaking news and insight.
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The Megawatt Hour – Episode 7: Home is where the smart is

Having considered grid-scale storage, in this episode we drill down to the small-scale to focus on where we’re most likely to interact with the technology in our daily lives – in our homes.
 As home energy systems become increasingly smarter, storage is set to play a greater role in how we use and consume energy – and hopefully will not only help us use greater amounts of renewables, but may even save us some money.
 Taking a tour of the smart home of the future with content editor Andrew Dykes is BDO director of financial model assurance services Andy Hucknall and Emilie Romain, a co-founder and operations director at home renewables supplier Ecobubl.
 The Megawatt Hour is a special podcast series brought to you by Energy Voice Out Loud in paid partnership with BDO.
 
 
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Day two at All Energy - Energy Voice catches up with Alan Barr PWC

The Energy Voice team are at the All-Energy conference this week, the UK’s largest renewable and low-carbon energy exhibition and conference.
PwC managing director and head of energy services for the UK Alan Barr stopped by the stand on Thursday morning to talk about how the current energy landscape is affecting M&A and dealmaking in the sector, and what exactly investors are looking for…
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Day two at All Energy - Energy Voice catches up with Billy Stevenson from Full Circle

The Energy Voice team are at the All-Energy conference this week, the UK’s largest renewable and low-carbon energy exhibition and conference.
Billy Stevenson of Full Circle Wind Services is at All-Energy as an up-and-coming independent services provider to the onshore wind industry. He hopes his company will have come full circle by this time next year, at All-Energy 2024.
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Day two at All Energy - Energy Voice catches up with James McNair from Deutsche Windtechnik

The Energy Voice team are at the All-Energy conference this week, the UK’s largest renewable and low-carbon energy exhibition and conference.
From Aberdeenshire to Cambridge, James McNair of Deutsche Windtechnik is on the lookout for wind technicians. He stopped by our podcast to chat about it
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Day two at All Energy - Energy Voice catches up with Steve Scrimshaw from Siemens Energy

The Energy Voice team are at the All-Energy conference this week, the UK’s largest renewable and low-carbon energy exhibition and conference.
Fresh from presenting on the main stage at the All-Energy conference at the SEC in Glasgow on Thursday, Steve Scrimshaw of Siemens Energy headed to the Energy Voice stand to talk all things energy transition. He covered offshore wind manufacturing, as well as issues with the grid, and gave an overview of Siemens Energy's projects in the UK.
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Day two at All Energy - Energy Voice catches up with Shaun Reardon from DNV

The Energy Voice team are at the All-Energy conference this week, the UK’s largest renewable and low-carbon energy exhibition and conference.
Cybersecurity is something many of us will be familiar with, without understanding what it really means or how it works. Shaun Reardon, head of section, industrial systems cybersecurity at DNV, dropped by the Energy Voice stand on day two of the All-Energy conference in Glasgow to talk about protecting energy assets, and how geopolitical events have changed the state of play.
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Energy Voice investigates and reports on what matters in global energy, helping sector leaders understand the geopolitical and economic factors underpinning current events, and giving them a view on what’s coming over the horizon. Each year, 3.4m professionals use Energy Voice as a trusted source of breaking news and insight.
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