Wireline Issue 46 - Autumn 2019

Image below: Attendees at the Diversity and Inclusion Task Group launch during Offshore Europe 2019.

D&I Taskforce launched at Offshore Europe Wood president of operations services, Europe & Africa, Craig Shanaghey, is to chair a new task group set up to champion diversity and inclusion in the oil and gas industry. The Diversity and Inclusion Task Group set up by OGUK will bring industry together to drive action towards recruiting and retaining diverse people, representative of wider society, and ensure no-one feels excluded in their place of work. The D&I Task Group will convene regularly with the aims of: reinforcing the business case for greater Diversity & Inclusion in the industry; seeking to establish a benchmark for Diversity & Inclusion, establishing what ‘good’ looks like, and providing support for businesses looking to do more; and shape and drive efforts to improve the image of the sector as an excellent career destination — one that embraces a culture of diversity. The Task Group will include representatives from OGUK membership and will be launched at a Diversity and Inclusion lunch at Offshore Europe today jointly supported by OGUK, OGTC and the Axis Network. New OGUK board appointments to address energy transition OGUKhas appointed twonewmembers to its board to further bolster the sector’s ongoing efforts tomaintain the competitiveness of oil and gas production from the UKCS — whilst also playing a significant role in enabling the UK’s net-zero carbon emissions ambition.

Environment Report highlights stable performance amid increased production The UK offshore oil and gas industry has delivered stable environmental performance whilst the sector has increased production levels, according to OGUK’s flagship environmental report. The 2019 Environment Report , which analyses and interprets data gathered and monitored by the Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment andDecommissioning (OPRED), considers performance across a range of areas including emissions to atmosphere, chemical discharge, waste disposal and produced water, to the end of 2018.

Bob Drummond, CEO of Hydrasun Group, has been appointed to the organisation’s board, as well as Alistair Stobie, chief financial officer at Hurricane Energy. Mr Drummond has been CEO and managing director in a number of major energy services companies including Maersk UK, Salamis Group, Wood Group Engineering and Rigblast Energy Services Group, prior to joining Hydrasun in 2002. Mr Stobie has significant capital markets and international oil and gas industry experience. Alistair was previously director of finance at AIM-quoted Zoltav Resources and CFO at Oando Exploration & Production. Hurricane Energy has developed pioneering approaches to exploration, particularly in the frontier region West of Shetland and the company has recently achieved first oil from the Lancaster field.

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