The Offshore Decommissioning Conference 2018, run jointly by Decom North Sea and Oil & Gas UK, took place from 26 – 28 November at the Fairmont Hotel, St Andrews. Around 450 delegates gathered at the conference focused on the current challenges around shutting down oil and gas infrastructure together with exhibitions and keynote speeches by industry experts, and where the 2018 Decommissioning Insight Report was launched.

The report provides insight into the decommissioning market for the next ten years and provides context for operators in scheduling, forecasting and planning, and widens the scope for supply chain expertise and deployment of services.

In this blog we provide an overview of the key themes discussed in the report. Regular readers of the Claxton blog will recall Head of Brand & Marketing, Andy Norman’s piece: The Future of the UKCS Offshore Decommissioning Industry: 2017 Predictions, and we follow on to ascertain how the predictions have materialised from two years ago.

With over 140,000 trade visitors and 10,400 conference delegates, The Abu Dhabi International Exhibition & Conference (ADIPEC) is described as the “world’s most influential oil and gas exhibition”. During November, Abu Dhabi was the home of ADIPEC, a multi-disciplinary conference, visited by international and regional oil and gas professionals, who are involved in both the technical and non-technical functions within the industry.

In this blog we look at three key themes and discussions that emerged from the event, and what the industry plans to achieve over the next 12 months to ensure a secure future.

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As oil and gas industry news consumers, social media feeds are saturated with the latest insights including; contract wins, exploration projects, decommissioning plans, oil price fluctuations. With a tweet having the lifespan of just 18 minutes, messages can get lost, making it difficult to take it all in. So, what makes an oil and gas social media account stand out? Claxton’s marketing team have selected five of our favourite channels from big operator names and in this blog, we explain what we like so much about them and why you should be following their news.

At the tail end of 2017, it was predicted that 2018 was set to be the year of recovery in oil and gas as upstream companies increased production and oil prices continued to rise. Fast forward 10 months and the oil and gas market has now seemingly reached a level of stability, with climbing oil prices and recruitment in the industry on the rise. On the back of an optimistic 2018 in the industry, there are some positive trends predicted for 2019.

In this blog, we draw on industry insights to paint a picture of what next year may look like for the industry:

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