Wireline Spring 2018

The new online Supply Chain Hub from Oil & Gas UK offers a one-stop gateway to initiatives, tools and advice to help businesses in the sector strengthen and grow, support local, national and global competitiveness, and ensure activities and expertise are anchored in the UK. Wireline catches up with some of the key government departments and regional development agencies offering companies their support to expand their businesses overseas.

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Oil and Gas Auth ity (OGA) While the OGA does not directly regulate the service sector, it recognises that a strong supply chain is essential to maximising economic recovery from the UK Continental Shelf (MER UK). Through the Supply Chain and Exports Task Force, part of MER UK Forum, the OGA works collaboratively with industry, governments and trade associations to develop and sustain a strengthened UK-based oil and gas supply chain, which can compete globally and support its vision of how the UK service sector could grow its share of both the domestic and global market between now and 2035. This collective effort is focused on anchoring activities and expertise in the UK and further developing the country as a centre of excellence, as well as identifying opportunities to promote UKCS exports across the globe and assisting companies to increase their international footprint. The group also works to improve collaboration to address issues such as cost efficiency and technology deployment. The Task Force has key relationships with the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Scottish Enterprise, the Department for International Trade and Oil & Gas UK, as well as other MER UK Task Forces in the MER UK Forum. In addition, the OGA has been instrumental in raising the profile and product range of the UK Government body UK Export Finance and supporting individual companies with ambitions to export services and products.

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