The North Sea Transition Authority signed off on the ever-controversial Rosebank oil field this week and lit a tinderbox of political and environmental debate.

Energy Voice’s Allister Thomas, Andrew Dykes and Ryan Duff dived into Rosebank talking points in a special “breaking news” edition of the Energy Voice Out Loud podcast – with electrification, emissions, exports and outrage all on the agenda.

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A move which has been met with wide-spread derision from the business community, Rishi Sunak has rolled back targets for the ban of petrol and diesel cars and phase out of fossil fuel boilers.

The UK is, once again, an unstable place to do business while warnings abound it will threatened climate goals, jobs and investment.

On the other end of the energy spectrum, oil and gas also remains uncertain as the “wholly unwelcome” windfall tax impacts projects and M&A.

Are things any better elsewhere? Well, yes and no. Ed Reed runs us through the latest M&A landscape in other geographies like Africa and South America.

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Ahead of Offshore Europe, Energy Voice's Ryan Duff caught up with Sian Lloyd Rees, the industry’s appointed supply chain champion, to discuss the issues being faced by the sector. 

Sian explained that “we’ve been through a number of upturns and downturns" in recent years and the “natural resilience” of the supply chain has been demonstrated.

She also shared some of the opportunities available to supply chain firms as the UK accelerates towards net zero as she addresses the issue of domestic offshore wind contracts being given to overseas businesses.

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Money makes the energy industry go round, but is it going to the right places? Oil and gas is continuing to secure financing, despite some recent woes, but not enough is going into renewable energy.

Ed Crooks, WoodMac vice chair of Americas, and Thomas Storch, managing director at Affinity Partners, settle down to mull over the challenges and opportunities of financing and policy.

The discussion around financing has too often focused on the negatives, with financiers and pressure groups flagging what is not getting support. A step forward in tackling the challenges of the energy industry would be more focus on making sure the right projects get funded, the guests on the second Road to ADIPEC episode discuss. 

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Berwick Bank offshore wind farm is the UK’s largest proposed offshore wind farm and is poised to create “nearly 5,000 jobs”, says project director Alex Meredith. 

Alex joins Energy Voice’s print features lead, Ryan Duff, to run the gauntlet of issues hitting the offshore wind sector at the moment and to discuss the opportunities Berwick Bank brings. 

The two talk the recent Contracts for Difference results, grid connection and the importance of creating opportunities for people to get involved in the transition to green energy. 

Berwick Bank will need a lot of people to get involved in order to bring the project to fruition and Alex believes that there will be will “pipeline of people to come through our project and develop.” 

While the UK grapples with the Contracts for Difference (CfD) results that saw no bids in offshore wind and Robert Gordon University warns of the impact lack of investment can have on jobs, Ghana the president of Ghana commissions Tullow’s Jubilee extension.

Last week CfD results were "record-breaking" but maybe not for the right reasons, Andrew explains. The team look to next year and discusses how results can change and what went wrong this time round.

Ryan dived into Robert Gordon University's Powering Up the Workforce report which warns 95,00 offshore energy jobs in the UK could be at risk if investment does not “increase significantly” across the energy sector. However, with the right amount of cash going into the sector, the county could also see a serious boost.

Ed explains that Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo has officially launched Tullow Oil’s Jubilee South East project and looks into the wider-reaching economic opportunities the development, and those like it, can offer the country.

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Tackling emissions will be crucial for oil and gas to play a part in the race to cut emissions.

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In the first episode of this new podcast series presented by Energy Voice Out Loud in partnership with DNV, Ryan speaks to Viken Chinien, Head of the Department of Markets & Risk at DNV, and Stuart Broadley, Chief Executive of EIC, about our path to net zero and the business risk of climate change.

How far behind net zero targets are we? What's going wrong? And why are policymakers not facing the overwhelming facts that the energy transition is not happening at the pace it needs to be? The trio tackle these hard-hitting topics and more as Bridges and Bottlenecks starts as it means to go on. 

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Andrew Dykes meets with Yvonne Telford, from Westwood Global Energy Group on day three of the Offshore Europe Conference in Aberdeen. The discussion focuses on certainty and stability within the energy sector, particularly within the UK, as well as collaboration on the energy transition journey.

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On day three of the Offshore Europe Conference, Hamish Penman chats with Hari Vamadevan, Regional Director, UK & Ireland, Energy Systems at DNV. While the Conference celebrates 50 years this year, this discussion looks at what is to come in the next 50 years in the oil and gas industry and what the path looks like to reach net zero goals. Vamadevan emphasises DNV’s own transition, what innovations are needed and the importance of certainty for the energy transition.

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