Oct-Dec 2023

November 2023

OFFSHORE EUROPE PANEL DISCUSSIONS

• How does digital technology and automation help with decarbonisation? With SLB, TotalEnergies, Baker Hughes and NZTC
• Where is the oil and gas industry going with decarbonisation? Perspectives from a UK government minister, Rystad Energy, NSTA, BP, Ithaca Energy, Baker Hughes and Stifel
• Equinor, Wood and Harbour on energy transition
• Offshore safety and how technology helps and hinders - the best way to improve and maintain offshore safety is in the culture and working relationships, safety experts agreed
• The environment for investing in start-ups relating to the industry transition - investor Andrew Smith, start-up Levidian, NZTC and IOGP
• Offshore carbon reduction initiatives - floating wind, a wind power “grid,” and establishing Shetland as a wind + CCS hub
• How O+G contributes to the energy transition - NSTA, NZTC and OWAT
• Geothermal and oil and gas – very interesting potential, including for oil and gas companies. Rystad Energy, NOV and SLB
• The UK offshore data strategy launched by NSTA, OEUK and NZTC - seeking unified data principles and a common data tool kit,
• Developments with hydrogen in UK - perspectives from BP, Storegga, Protium and Petrofac

• Emissions data and suppliers - the challenge of getting data about emissions made by all your suppliers and gathering it together, and how the PIDX ETDX standard will help
• A sensor to measure sidetrack angle - to avoid the problem of a sidetrack being drilled at the wrong angle, and undetected until much later
• CCS integrity management technologies - managing the processes of carbon capture, transport, and storage. Emerson, and its subsidiary AspenTech can help
• CCS projects can be complex to operate - using a combined solution from ABB and Pace CCS, with advanced systems combined with digital twins
• Technology and physical security - with so much focus on cybersecurity, physical security sometimes gets neglected. Nelson Duran of ABS Group explains where the biggest hazards may be
• Cybersecurity and situation awareness - the importance of understanding your current position. By Bernard Montel, Technical Director and Security Strategist EMEA, Tenable