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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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.

Energy Voice helps organisations understand the geopolitical, economic and financial factors that underpin market events, and give you a view on what’s coming over the horizon. As a listener to this podcast, you can get a free trial of energyvoice.com, giving you two weeks of unrestricted access to the latest crucial news and insight. The trial is entirely without obligation – we don’t want your credit card, and there’s no auto-enrolment at the end. 

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.

Energy Voice helps organisations understand the geopolitical, economic and financial factors that underpin market events, and give you a view on what’s coming over the horizon. As a listener to this podcast, you can get a free trial of energyvoice.com, giving you two weeks of unrestricted access to the latest crucial news and insight. The trial is entirely without obligation – we don’t want your credit card, and there’s no auto-enrolment at the end. 

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.

Energy Voice helps organisations understand the geopolitical, economic and financial factors that underpin market events, and give you a view on what’s coming over the horizon. As a listener to this podcast, you can get a free trial of energyvoice.com, giving you two weeks of unrestricted access to the latest crucial news and insight. The trial is entirely without obligation – we don’t want your credit card, and there’s no auto-enrolment at the end. 

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.

Energy Voice helps organisations understand the geopolitical, economic and financial factors that underpin market events, and give you a view on what’s coming over the horizon. As a listener to this podcast, you can get a free trial of energyvoice.com, giving you two weeks of unrestricted access to the latest crucial news and insight. The trial is entirely without obligation – we don’t want your credit card, and there’s no auto-enrolment at the end. 

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!

Energy Voice helps organisations understand the geopolitical, economic and financial factors that underpin market events, and give you a view on what’s coming over the horizon. As a listener to this podcast, you can get a free trial of energyvoice.com, giving you two weeks of unrestricted access to the latest crucial news and insight. The trial is entirely without obligation – we don’t want your credit card, and there’s no auto-enrolment at the end. 

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.

Energy Voice helps organisations understand the geopolitical, economic and financial factors that underpin market events, and give you a view on what’s coming over the horizon. As a listener to this podcast, you can get a free trial of energyvoice.com, giving you two weeks of unrestricted access to the latest crucial news and insight. The trial is entirely without obligation – we don’t want your credit card, and there’s no auto-enrolment at the end. 

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. 

Energy Voice helps organisations understand the geopolitical, economic and financial factors that underpin market events, and give you a view on what’s coming over the horizon. As a listener to this podcast, you can get a free trial of energyvoice.com, giving you two weeks of unrestricted access to the latest crucial news and insight. The trial is entirely without obligation – we don’t want your credit card, and there’s no auto-enrolment at the end. 

This week’s EVOL sees the team delve into some stark analysis from Fatih Birol of the IEA – dubbed the Demon Headmaster – on spending cuts in the energy sector this year and their long-term implications. Also, what was (or wasn’t) said at BP’s AGM? And just how effective can a “socially distanced protest” really be? All this, plus the team look at the pros and cons of the freshly-announced quarantine exemptions for offshore workers. Enjoy!

Energy Voice helps organisations understand the geopolitical, economic and financial factors that underpin market events, and give you a view on what’s coming over the horizon. As a listener to this podcast, you can get a free trial of energyvoice.com, giving you two weeks of unrestricted access to the latest crucial news and insight. The trial is entirely without obligation – we don’t want your credit card, and there’s no auto-enrolment at the end. 

The Energy Voice Out Lead team, still working from their respective EVOL lairs, take some time this week to consider how the oil price blues are threatening spending plans, upending agreed deals, and leaving workers out in the cold. The “Yoda of the North Sea” has warned that low prices will leave a number of North Sea fields unexploited, and two of Total’s planned purchases in Africa have fallen through. While companies are taking steps to shore up their balance sheets and focus on survival, thousands of North Sea workers have been left in the lurch and there is little sign of action from the government.

Energy Voice helps organisations understand the geopolitical, economic and financial factors that underpin market events, and give you a view on what’s coming over the horizon. As a listener to this podcast, you can get a free trial of energyvoice.com, giving you two weeks of unrestricted access to the latest crucial news and insight. The trial is entirely without obligation – we don’t want your credit card, and there’s no auto-enrolment at the end.