Energy Voice – Out Loud

Exxon stiffed, Equinor downsizing and who Dunnett at Ithaca?

Ed triumphantly returned from his semiaquatic sojourn in Somerset to join Mark and Allister for another ear-captivating edition of Energy Voice Out Loud, in association with the EIC. The guys dished out insight on ExxonMobil’s ousting from the Dow Jones and replacement with a cloud computing company, the latest oil sector job woes – this time at Equinor – and the arrival of oil firm transformer Bill Dunnett at Ithaca. Enjoy. 
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Sexy stats, dirty spills and… financial restructuring

This week the EVOL team watch the movements of Greenpeace’s Esperanza vessel as the activist group attempts to catch out oil companies polluting in the North Sea. It comes amid revelations that prosecutors spent several times more investigating the case against BP for its 2016 Clair spill than the oil giant actually paid with its £7000 fine. That, as one part of the team speculates, perhaps just about covers their stationary costs? 
Also on the agenda we have a new assessment of UK decommissioning costs as the OGA highlights that some operators are “compromising” the efforts of others. It also has some stark warnings about the health of the supply chain. All this and more in this week’s episode, in association with the EIC.
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Survive & Thrive – EVOL ✕ EIC

Service companies have come under mounting pressure as a result of COVID-19 and the related oil price pressure, but it is not all doom and gloom. Stuart Broadley, CEO of the Energy Industries Council, joins Ed Reed from the Energy Voice team to explain why, in a paid partnership with the EIC.
The EIC’s fourth edition of Survive & Thrive, a survey of 40 service companies, flagged three major points. Resilience, diversification and exports.
Companies have learnt the lessons of the last oil price crash, moving faster to cut costs and enter new industries, demonstrating resilience and diversification. But Broadley has called for companies to do more to consider exports as an area of growth in the energy sector.
As to which of the companies surveyed is Broadley’s favourite? He’s not saying, but judging is now under way, and an awards ceremony is scheduled for March 2021.
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Choppers, bunkers and Chevron

In this episode, in association with the EIC, the war of words has continued in the helicopter space with another contract going to fiercely competitive Babcock. While the company has remained silent about its winning ways, others vying for contracts have been less restrained. Babcock, if you’re reading this, give Mark a call to explain. 
Meanwhile, in Australia, a work commission has found in favour of a refinery worker who was sacked after his wife remixed a famous video of Hitler in his bunker with BP. While none of the EVOL team are lawyers, we do caution against comparing one’s employer to a fascist dictator in his dying days. 
Chevron set out its reasoning behind its acquisition of Noble Energy this week. The buyer’s attention was first drawn to a stake in Israel’s Leviathan field. While US companies have focused increasingly on domestic shale opportunities over the last few years, they may be starting to consider international properties that actually generate cash flow – albeit at a higher risk premium.
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Sour grapes, BP’s big shift and The Brothers Gupta

With Allister on his hols (somewhere in lockdown Aberdeen), special guest Stuart Broadley, chief executive of the Energy Industries Council – which sponsors this episode – joined Mark and Ed to size up the week’s biggest stories.
They got under the skin of CHC’s stark warning about the safety implications of asking copter operators to provide services at too-low prices, before Stuart provided an assessment of BP’s plans to shrink its carbon footprint over the next 10 years, touching on some of the obstacles it will face.
Ed lifted the lid on Eskom’s attempts to regain some of the money it has lost to corruption – and Sasol’s efforts to seek some solar power at its massively polluting facilities.
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Aberdeen’s oil tourism, Bojo’s export ethics and Kishorn’s high hopes

Boris Johnson having an ethical dilemma? Oil tourism in Aberdeen? An FPSO being refurbished in Kishorn?? Okay, the latter isn’t so far-fetched but the EVOL team go full lockdown podcast mode this week as they tackle these tough questions and more! 
Ed kicks us off with a tale about the UK Government reviewing its financing of foreign fossil fuel developments.  The implications for climate change, winning overseas work and fuel poverty are all on the table. 
Then, what better way for Allister to spend his birthday than to talk about an oil tourism idea from the 1980s? He reflects on his chat with businessman Charles Skene about his museum-theme park idea once planned for the Beach Boulevard. 
Mark rounds us off with news that the Voyageur Spirit FPSO from Premier Oil’s Huntington field is off to Kishorn drydock for refurb work ahead of redeployment, in another big win for the Scottish port with big ambitions. It’s all in this week’s Energy Voice Out Loud, in association with Burness Paull.
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Idle threats, rusty rig museums and oil’s big skills crisis

Listeners to this week’s EV podcast, in association with Burness Paull, are in for a real treat; we were delighted to welcome on board a special guest with bags of insight and intelligence, James McCallum. James is a renowned entrepreneur who co-founded energy service firm Senergy and currently chairs Xergy, a business software developer.
 
Donning his earplugs while over in sunny Spain, he joined Mark and Allister for a chinwag about Subsea UK boss Neil Gordon’s “cry for help” and the merits of an oil rig museum off Aberdeen. James also brought a burning issue to the table, namely, the troubling outlook for the oil industry as it waves goodbye to thousands of talented employees.
 
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A whopper of a law suit, an oil rig graveyard, and a bitter row

In this latest EVOL podcast, in association with Burness Paull, energy news gladiators Ed, Allister and Mark pierce the armour of the week’s hottest stories. There’s a $10 billion lawsuit centred on a gas plant which an Irish company was supposedly hoping to build in Nigeria. Residents dotted around the Cromarty Firth are up in arms about the noise and light being given off by stacked rigs. Meanwhile, mud-slinging has broken out after one London-listed energy company tried to make a cheeky bid for Deltic Energy, a creation of North Sea pioneer and Monty Burns lookalike Algy Cluff.
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Piper Alpha and its safety legacy – with Steve Rae

On this special episode of EVOL, in association with Burness Paull, Steve Rae, a survivor of the Piper Alpha disaster, joins the team to reflect on the tragedy that took place 32 years ago this week. Steve discusses the lasting safety legacy of Piper Alpha, which claimed the lives of 167 people in the North Sea, as well as his own memories from that fateful night. The EVOL team then takes an international look at health and safety in oil and gas, including a fatal valve station explosion in Nigeria this week, as well as recent piracy and terrorism cases. 
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Functioning safer – EVOL ✕ Katoni Engineering

The oil and gas industry’s safety track record is improving, but there is considerable way to go. Operators and safety consultants should consider three areas. First, they must understand how to classify risk and how to balance prevention with importance. Secondly, risk assessments must be replicable and recorded, to allow results to be understood later down the line. And third, functional safety should consider the entire lifecycle of the asset.  
In this special Energy Voice Out Loud Xpertise Series (EVOL ✕) episode, in paid partnership with Katoni Engineering, James Keachie, Ian Kirkwood and Greg Muir join our Africa editor Ed Reed to offer in-depth insights on the current state of safety, where things have gone wrong and how there may be a better way forward.
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