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Edition 23 | September 2014
Exhibition & Conference
Newsflash Offshore Energy offshore oil and gas E&P • transport and storage • maritime services • offshore wind offshore supply • offshore contracting • offshore vessels • deepwater development • drilling
Exhibitor news on page 10 Read more about: • Off-the-scale offshore opportunities • BROSA Tubular load cell • Workfox and Seafox Contractors B.V. expand focus
Conference preview With technical sessions, master classes for young professionals, C-level panels and the co-located Offshore WIND conference, Offshore Energy 2014 offers more speakers, more topics and more sessions to choose from. Delegates can expect to hear about the latest challenges and solutions in offshore E&P activities and
Column by Nils van Nood on page 3
“Successful cooperation between companies and other organizations is fundamental to the development of our future.”
By Nils van Nood, GustoMSC
developments in marine renewable energy, among others. The future is in the water
As ‘big oil’ is retreating from the North
The conference theme for this year is
Sea, more room is becoming available
“The Future Is in the Water”, hinting at
for smaller, independent E&P companies.
the increasing shift to offshore as the
During this session experts from the
locus of E&P activities. The recurring
University of Aberdeen Business School,
technical session on North Sea
Hansa Hydrocarbons, Centrica and EBN
exploration and production this year
will discuss what is being spent this year
focuses on the changing playing field.
on drilling, how new players expect to
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