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6. Appendices
6.1 Oil & Gas UK’s Efficiency Task Force
The Case for Change
Sharply rising costs and decreasing efficiency in recent years have left the UK sector particularly exposed to the
drop in oil price. Even before prices slumped, the industry was developing a response to the challenges it faced
while upholding safe production.
Work to increase efficiency initially began in 2014 but gathered greater momentum with the rapidly changing
business environment prompted by the plummeting oil price. In September 2015, Oil & Gas UK stepped up this
activity with the formal launch of the Efficiency Task Force (ETF).
Introducing the Task Force
The ETF comprises a group of experts tasked with driving forward pan-industry high impact initiatives to help
improve the international competitiveness of the UKCS and support government policy to maximise economic
recovery from the basin. The Task Force provides a catalyst for the rapid change in behaviours and practices that
will encourage companies to look for efficiencies in their operations and put the industry as a whole on a more
sustainable footing for the future.
It is led by Oil & Gas UK co-chairman John Pearson, group president Northern Europe and CIS at Amec Foster
Wheeler, and supported by a dedicated team from Oil & Gas UK working alongside industry members. The ETF
takes a three-pronged approach under the themes of Co-operation, Culture and Behaviours; Business Process;
and Standardisation – focussing on two or three projects in each.
Co-operation, Culture and Behaviours
Long-term transformational change will only come about through real collaboration
between operators, major contractors and SMEs, embedding new ways of working and
creating new business models. Under the Co-operation, Culture and Behaviours theme, the
ETF aims to deliver the tools for that transformational change.
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