Contents ISSUE 28 SUMMER 2017
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FROM THE EIC 5 Foreword
From the Chief Executive
6 View from the top Tim Cornelius, CEO of Atlantis Resources
10 News and events Updates from the EIC
14 The big question
We ask members: How can we encourage the next generation of energy workers?
16 Special report: Engineering the future
David Nicholson searches for solutions to the energy industry’s gender imbalance
20 Making a success of Brexit
Jeremy Bowden reveals the routes to success
54 My business
Ann and Howard Johnson, Blaze Manufacturing Solutions
Tim Cornelius
OIL AND GAS 26 Unlocking North Sea potential
39 Gas to wire
A natural fit for Brazil’s energy system. Gabriel Cavados, Senior Developer Energy Solutions, Wärtsilä Brasil
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Q&A with Russell Dandie, Global Supply Chain Manager, Premier Oil
The energy gender gap
28 An industry shaped by mergers and acquisitions
Matthew Graham, Director of Investment Banking – Energy, Simmons & Company
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33 Indonesia: Reforms fuel new opportunities Dinar Indriana Khoiriah, Managing Partner, Alefstrata
Routes out of Europe
34 Oil & Gas Asia 2017
The gateway to South East Asia
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Get Fit For Nuclear
US offshore wind
Should you wish to send your views, please email: info@redactive.co.uk
Andrew Storer, Managing Director, Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre
46 Turkey pushes on with nuclear ambitions The country’s nuclear new-build programme is under way
RENEWABLES 48 US offshore wind spins into life
Amisha Patel, Head of Power, Nuclear and Renewables, and Public Affairs, EIC
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Chief executive: Stuart Broadley
Can UK business turn market scale into opportunity? Kelly Butler, Deputy CEO and Marketing Director, BEAMA
44 Oil and gas suppliers get Fit For Nuclear
A step closer to exploratory drilling. Francis Egan, CEO, Cuadrilla Resources
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41 India gets smart
NUCLEAR
31 UK shale gas
The Energy Industries Council
POWER
53 Exporting worldleading marine energy expertise
Interview with Eileen Linklater, Commercial Manager at EMEC
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