Wireline - Summer 2017

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19. Get up to speed on the latest environmental legislation
Users of Oil & Gas UK’s Environmental Legislation website will find a much-improved search function and interface. Timelines
have been added to prompt operators on the types of permits they need to apply for and by when. The website is a unique
resource that lists all offshore oil and gas legislation and guidance and it’s free to use.
Keep up to date at .
20. Scotland Conservative Group meets with industry reps
Oil & Gas UK organised a roundtable meeting between the north east of Scotland
Conservative MSP group and industry representatives earlier in the
year. This was followed by a visit to member company Petrofac. At the
meeting, the parliamentarians received an overview of the industry
and discussed the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy and Brexit.
Walter Thain, managing director at Petrofac, also shared the latest
outputs from the Efficiency Task Force, which he chairs. Attendees
included Alexander Burnett MSP; Bill Bowman MSP; Liam Kerr MSP;
Ross Thomson MSP; and Peter Chapman MSP. At Petrofac’s
Emergency Response Service Centre, the group witnessed a simulated
emergency response exercise in the Incident Management Room,
followed by a tour of Petrofac’s Fast Rescue Craft Coxswain training
site – the only freefall lifeboat training facility in Scotland.
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18. Updated seabird oil sensitivity index
A new seabird oil sensitivity index is now available for use in operators’ Oil Pollution
Emergency Plans (OPEP). It is based on data taken from visual boat and digital video
aerial surveys run between 1995 and 2015. Oil & Gas UK commissioned the work
following recommendations from the Oil Spill Prevention and Response Advisory
Group (OSPRAG) that the industry needed to validate and update existing seabird
data in collaboration with the Joint Nature Conservation Council.
Louise O’Hara Murray, Oil & Gas UK’s environment manager, says: “The new Seabirds
at Sea Oil Sensitivity Index (SOSI) is a great example of industry and government
working together. Furthermore, the data are now available for the first time in
geographic information system (GIS) map format.”
Access the data at .
22. Companies join Oil & Gas UK
We are pleased to welcome the following companies that have joined Oil & Gas UK membership: Aberdeen City and Shire Hotel
Association; Airpac Bukom Oilfield Services; British American Business; Clyde Training Solutions; Codex Integrity Limited;
ConsortiQ; Essex Court Chambers; IMRANDD Ltd; Newgate Communications; PPS Scotland; Quartzelec Ltd; Texo Drone Survey
and Inspection Ltd; and Woodside Energy Ltd.
21. Board appointment
Oil & Gas UK is pleased to announce Steve Phimister’s appointment to its Board as he
takes up his new role as vice president of Shell’s UK & Ireland upstream business unit.
Steve is replacing Paul Goodfellow who moves on to another role. Also, Bel Valves’
Neil Kirkbride has completed five years as a valuable member of the Board and has now
stepped down as per governance rules. He will continue his work with the association
through the Efficiency Task Force, leading on efforts to simplify engineered products.
Neil’s replacement will be announced in due course.
View the full list of Boardmembers at
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