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!
Episodes

Friday Jul 24, 2020
Idle threats, rusty rig museums and oil’s big skills crisis
Friday Jul 24, 2020
Friday Jul 24, 2020
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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Friday Jul 17, 2020
A whopper of a law suit, an oil rig graveyard, and a bitter row
Friday Jul 17, 2020
Friday Jul 17, 2020
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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Friday Jul 10, 2020
Piper Alpha and its safety legacy – with Steve Rae
Friday Jul 10, 2020
Friday Jul 10, 2020
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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Monday Jul 06, 2020
Functioning safer – EVOL ✕ Katoni Engineering
Monday Jul 06, 2020
Monday Jul 06, 2020
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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Friday Jul 03, 2020
Disrespect, carbon disagreements and Zambian courts
Friday Jul 03, 2020
Friday Jul 03, 2020
Operators should not disrespect service companies by asking for swingeing cost cuts, a BP exec told Mark this week. Energy Voice’s redoubtable editor then had to reassure Allister that his office behaviour was acceptable, a spirit of conciliation not seen on a recent webinar where stark differences of opinion were expressed about oil and carbon prices. Ed weighed in on a long-running dispute in Zambia where a group of pensioners has been struggling for many years to get their cash, while the companies involved argue about responsibility. We hope you enjoy this latest episode of Energy Voice Out Loud, in association with Burness Paull.
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Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Building back greener – EVOL ✕ Burness Paull
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Major new deals and project announcements in the UK offshore wind sector have made a big splash for two reasons. First, they symbolise the ‘build back greener’ mantra in action. Second, French oil major Total’s entry into the Seagreen wind farm, Scotland’s largest, is a sign of the energy transition in action.In this special Energy Voice Out Loud Xpertise Series (EVOL ✕) episode, in paid partnership with Burness Paull, Partners Neil Bruce and Peter Ward join our renewables lead David McPhee to offer their expert insight on the swiftly changing face of the Scottish clean energy sector, potential expansion through the next ScotWind licensing round, and the giant leap of oil and gas companies into uncharted waters.
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Friday Jun 26, 2020
Decom double-helping and Senegalese squabbles
Friday Jun 26, 2020
Friday Jun 26, 2020
Check out this week’s bumper Energy Voice Out Loud podcast, in association with Burness Paull, in which Mark and Allister dish out a double-dose of North Sea decommissioning insight, as aged platforms and vessels find their resting places. Plus, Ed gives us the lowdown on an outspoken but well-versed Senegalese president’s predictions for some major offshore projects.
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Friday Jun 19, 2020
Net zero natter, Riyadh’s riches and decom doom-mongering
Friday Jun 19, 2020
Friday Jun 19, 2020
On this week’s Energy Voice Out Loud, in association with Burness Paull, the troupe have a net zero natter on the North Sea’s ambitions. How much of it is commercially viable? And how much of it is just from turning off the taps and decommissioning? Speaking of which, the team discusses a new decom spending prediction from the OGA, and the authority’s concerns about how the drop in work will hit suppliers. Rounding us off, Saudi Aramco show us that you don’t need to work a bargain when you’re rich as Croesus. Please do enjoy!
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Friday Jun 12, 2020
Cuts, quits and costs
Friday Jun 12, 2020
Friday Jun 12, 2020
Jobs, jobs and more jobs came into focus for the EVOL team in this week’s podcast, in association with Burness Paull, as the oil price squeeze takes its toll on upstream operators.
BP is losing millions of dollars a day, its CEO has said, setting out plans for a reinvention that will see 10,000 jobs cut this year. Can the company achieve its energy transition goals while losing so many people?
Talking about losing people, Hurricane Energy is parting ways with long-time CEO Robert Trice. Hurricane’s share price has suffered in recent times and Trice has fallen on the sword, although it is not particularly clear how this will solve its problems.
Another company with problems is Nigeria’s NNPC, which is struggling to increase margins. The NOC is aiming to halve costs within 18 months but there is a long history of over promising and under delivering in the country’s troubled energy sector. We hope you enjoy the episode.
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Friday Jun 05, 2020
Dictators, oil at $40, suppliers getting squeezed… and a nuclear interview
Friday Jun 05, 2020
Friday Jun 05, 2020
In this week’s episode, brought to you in association with Burness Paull, the team lift the lid on the oil industry in perennially crisis-hit Libya; Opec and its buddies’ latest efforts to boost oil prices; and candid comments from a director at the OGA, who thinks some oil companies are living on another planet. We’re also pleased to bring you our first interview. It’s with the people behind an upcoming film, “The Atom: A Love Affair”. You can watch that right now at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/theatomaloveaffair.
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