WIRELINE Issue 36 - Summer 2016

LEADERSHIP

TECHNOLOGY

Paul White of GE Oil & Gas, co-chair of the MER UK Technology Leadership Board

collective industry effort to identify – and introduce – new technology-based cost-effective solutions. He is very clear that the task requires being open minded, pushing boundaries and looking to the future. “We need to clearly understand the challenges and needs of the sector today. Some of the technologies that we used in the past to recover oil and gas were fantastic achievements for the UK and we should be really proud of them, but they are not all necessarily technologies we need for MER, late-life production or smaller developments in a mature basin.” Adding value Sir Ian Wood outlined technology’s central role to achieve MER UK following his independent review of

“ We need to clearly understand the challenges and needs of the sector today. Some of the technologies that we used in the past to recover oil and gas were fantastic achievements… but they are not all necessarily technologies we need for maximising economic recovery, late-life production or smaller developments in a mature basin. ”

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