The regular weekly Out Loud show sees journalists from Energy Voice come together to highlight and discuss the biggest stories of the week, and there are lots of other special series and in-depth episodes too. Appropriately enough, the show absolutely crackles with energy!
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Friday Sep 25, 2020
Friday Sep 25, 2020
As Premier Oil is trying to rework its acquisition of North Sea assets from BP, what might Exxon make of such a state of affairs? There’s a list of companies bidding for Exxon’s assets, but the interminable renegotiations are probably best avoided.
Mark managed to keep his eye off the birds in the opposite house (actual birds; he’s not a creep, just easily distracted) for long enough to talk through some of the North Sea’s collective bargaining plans. Some contractors are in, some are out, while some just shake it all about.
Namibia is a lovely place for a honeymoon although it is probably not ideal for fracking. ReconAfrica is hoping to find a new sweet spot in the country’s north, but is facing concerns around environmental impacts.
This episode of Energy Voice Out Loud was brought to you in association with Baker Hughes and its Subsea Connect. Join Baker Hughes on the 15th, 22nd and 29th of September for Subsea Connect TV; a virtual event series and hear from operators, learn from case studies and discuss new ways to improve economics and performance over the life of a field. Register to join at https://cvent.me/wzgGVL?RefId=Energy+Voice
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Friday Sep 18, 2020
Friday Sep 18, 2020
Join the Energy Voice team in the latest podcast episode, in association with Baker Hughes, as they discuss the latest and biggest news stories:
Where on earth does Hurricane Energy go from here, following its crushing west of Shetland resources downgrade?
If you had to cut a branch off a tree using a saw, would you stand on that branch while you were doing it? Well, people carrying out oil rig decom work in Shetland would. They’d tell you it’s safe, too.
Meanwhile, Waltersmith (yep!) struck a blow to pipeline vandals and thieves in Nigeria with its new modular refinery.
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Friday Sep 11, 2020
Friday Sep 11, 2020
We kick off with BP’s partnership with Aberdeen City Council. Greenwashing accusations are rife, but is that right concern here? Mark takes us through some recent comment’s from Neptune Energy’s Jim House with concerns the OGA is taking its eye off the ball on MER UK vs net zero. And is there anything a box of Quality Street won’t fix? Rounding us off, geopolitical tensions with China play out on the small scale in Somaliland, as Trafigura takes a position there.
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Friday Sep 04, 2020
Friday Sep 04, 2020
Should the government stump up some of the cash it was going to pay out for decommissioning ahead of time, in order to get the ball rolling? Decom North Sea thinks so, although other opinions are available. At a time when the national debt is hitting record levels, and a number of sectors are calling for help, the government may not want to help out the oil and gas industry.
In welcome news for the residents of the Cromarty Firth, a consultancy has predicted there may be a shortage of jack-ups in 2021 for the UK North Sea. Rig prices may rise, if Bassoe Offshore is correct, but probably not enough to bring cold-stacked rigs back to work.
Further good news came offshore South Africa, where Total has begun drilling its Luiperd well – Leopard in Afrikaans – to follow up its Brulpadda – or bullfrog – find from 2019. The seas may be stormy and water depth challenging but the prospect of another billion barrels has investors salivating.
This episode of Energy Voice Out Loud was brought to you in association with Baker Hughes and its Subsea Connect. Join Baker Hughes on the 15th, 22nd and 29th of September for Subsea Connect TV; a virtual event series and hear from operators, learn from case studies and discuss new ways to improve economics and performance over the life of a field. Register to join at https://cvent.me/wzgGVL?RefId=Energy+Voice
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Friday Aug 28, 2020
Friday Aug 28, 2020
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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Friday Aug 21, 2020
Friday Aug 21, 2020
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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Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
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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Friday Aug 14, 2020
Friday Aug 14, 2020
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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Friday Aug 07, 2020
Friday Aug 07, 2020
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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Friday Jul 31, 2020
Friday Jul 31, 2020
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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