All articles by Alexander Love
Alexander Love
Using QR codes to future-proof offshore energy assets
QR codes have an important role to play in the offshore energy industry, both for oil & gas, and renewables. While QR codes aren’t new, they are now appearing everywhere – including in subsea environments. We speak to Aquasign director, Emma Learmonth, to learn more.
How investing in Scotland can help to drive a low-carbon future
The eyes of the world have been on Scotland as Glasgow hosted the UN’s COP26 conference to tackle climate change – but what do the announcements from COP mean for Scotland, and which Scottish innovations can help the drive towards net zero? We speak to Mark Hallan, director of global investment at Scottish Development International, to learn about Scotland’s natural and financial environments, which make it a strong proposition for investors looking for a greener portfolio with long-term potential.
How investing in Scotland can help to drive a low-carbon future
The eyes of the world have been on Scotland as Glasgow hosted the UN’s COP26 conference to tackle climate change – but what do the announcements from COP mean for Scotland, and which Scottish innovations can help the drive towards net zero? We speak to Mark Hallan, director of global investment at Scottish Development International, to learn about Scotland’s natural and financial environments, which make it a strong proposition for investors looking for a greener portfolio with long-term potential.
Q&A: creating a circular economy for subsea equipment with Legasea
Aberdeenshire start-up Legasea recently scooped the Subsea Company of the Year accolade in the UK Enterprise Awards. Legasea takes liability and ownership for decommissioned subsea equipment, making it safe, and clean, as well as disassembling it to its component parts, which are then sold back as spares. We spoke to Legasea managing director Lewis Sim to find out more.
ABB: bringing the industry together on seabed production tech
Under the Subsea Power Joint Industry Program, ABB and its partners in the oil & gas industry are forging ahead with plans to relocate production facilities to the seabed. But with hostile pressure and temperatures to contend with, how is the project stress-testing the equipment that could one day automate offshore production?
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Understanding offshore operations optimisation with ABB
With an unstable oil market, operators are seeking to optimise operations to make up for price fluctuations and increase cost-efficiencies. Alexander Love spoke to Espen Storkaas, ABB group vice-president for offshore oil and gas digital, at the company’s Collaboration Operations Center in Oslo, Norway, to discuss how these relatively new technologies are transforming operations for the offshore industry and making automation a reality.
Report: Upstream M&A activity at $12.6bn in September 2017
The global upstream market witnessed 43 mergers and acquisition (M&A) transactions with a combined value of $12.6bn in September 2017, according to a report by GlobalData.