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Training: Contracts, why they matter and how to use them to your advantage

Why attend? Although contracts define all business relationships, their importance is often underestimated.

When: 31 October 2017
Where: Addleshaw Goddard LLP, Milton Gate, 60 Chiswell Street, London, EC1Y 4AG

News & Events

An industry shaped by mergers and acquisitions

Amid cautious optimism, companies operating across the supply chain are continuing to focus on their customers in an effort to allay further volume declines and quell margin pressure.

As businesses move out of survival mode and look to the future, Matthew Graham foresees a modest upturn in oilfield services mergers and acquisitions.

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Unlocking North Sea potential

Please could you give our readers a little background on Premier Oil’s interests in the UK North Sea?

Energy Focus talks to Russell Dandie, Global Supply Chain Manager at Premier Oil – one of the largest independent UKCS operators – about collaboration, innovation and maximising recovery from the North Sea.

Catcher

Making a success of Brexit

With the clock now ticking down the two years to Brexit, UK-based companies will soon find themselves in a very much smaller domestic market.

As Brexit draws closer, Jeremy Bowden takes a look at how exporters are reacting to the prospect of Britain leaving the EU, and what we might expect from a Brexit deal.

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Engineering the future: searching for solutions to the engineering gender imbalance

If you were asked to name the world’s most famous engineer or energy industry pioneer then who would you pick? Brunel perhaps?

Recruiting women into the engineering sector has long been a tricky issue, plagued by misconceptions and stubborn traditions. David Nicholson shares some of the latest thinking on how to attract women into the profession.

Engineering Credit Oliver Burston

My business: Ann and Howard Johnson, Blaze Manufacturing Solutions

Can you tell us a little bit about Blaze?

Energy Focus caught up with husband and wife team Ann, Finance Director, and Howard, Managing Director, to find out what day-to-day life is like at Blaze.

Blaze Staff and Workshop

Exporting world-leading marine energy expertise

‘The biggest hook is the sheer level of experience we’ve got here in Orkney,’ says Eileen Linklater, reflecting on why the Scottish island community is the global epicentre of wave and tidal.

Eileen Linklater, Commercial Manager at EMEC, tells Energy Focus why the UK is the undisputed global leader in marine energy.

Tidal Power

US offshore wind spins into life

Back in 2001 when Cape Wind was proposed as America's first offshore wind project, the US offshore wind market barely existed.

Still in its infancy US offshore wind offers huge opportunities, as the country looks to draw on UK and European expertise to advance development, writes the EIC’s Amisha Patel.

View from the top: Tim Cornelius, CEO, Atlantis Resources

Tim Cornelius CEO Atlantis Resources

To start off, could you give our readers some background on the MeyGen project?

Energy Focus meets Tim Cornelius CEO of tidal power giant Atlantis Resources, the developer behind the groundbreaking MeyGen tidal array project being built in the Pentland Firth, Scotland.

Tim Cornelius

From the Chief Executive: how to create the next generation of energy workers?

Welcome back to a new and improved Energy Focus. As our regular readers will know, we’ve taken a brief pause to redesign our flagship industry magazine.

In this edition we explore possible alternative Brexit scenarios and the implications for the supply chain, as well as highlighting a pressing question facing the industry today: how to create the next generation of energy workers?

Stuart Broadley
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