WIRELINE Issue 36 - Summer 2016

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are important to your business, and industry as a whole, to governments, regulators and all other stakeholders. We have reviewed our business model and have restructured and repositioned ourselves so that our teams and associated member work groups, networks and forums are better focused and placed to tackle the industry’s priorities and promote members’ interests. We listened to our members and have acted accordingly. You can find out more about these changes in this issue (p10). We also continue to have the backing of a strong Board of industry leaders that represent the breadth of companies across the sector. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank our outgoing chairmen John Pearson and Trevor Garlick and welcome our new co-chairs and vice co-chairs (p12).

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of Wireline have a passion for the sector that translates into a proactive pursuit to secure the industry’s future safely and effectively. Wherever we work in the industry, offshore and onshore, we all need to come up with better and smarter ways of working, while supporting those negatively impacted by this downturn. It’s not easy but nothing worth having is. EFFICIENCY TASK FORCE – COLLABORATION INDEX p17

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T o not evolve will leave us merely passive bystanders to events as they unfold. As your trade association, we feel strongly that standing still and simply weathering the current storm is not an option. With this in mind, we continue to work with industry to help shape a more efficient and co-operative approach to doing competitive business. need to be agile and willing to adapt. Our role is to stand with you as we navigate together through the good and difficult times and take the lead, when necessary, to champion the issues that We also recognise that as an organisation we

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Deirdre Michie, Chief Executive, Oil & Gas UK

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Editorial Team Rupal Mehta and Cymone Thomas Contributors Bill Phillips, Helen Evans, Lucy Gordon and Trisha O’Reilly

Cover image Additive layer manufacturing (3D printing) in metals. This is one of the capabilities on offer at the High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult, which is collaborating with the Oil & Gas Innovation Centre in Aberdeen. Image courtesy of the HVM Catapult. Oil & Gas UK 6th Floor East, Portland House, Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5BH

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