All articles by Heidi Vella

Skills and technology: inside the UK’s latest drilling training facility

“The global energy sector is extremely buoyant,” says Emma Howorth, the manager of a new AIS Survivex centre for well…
Skills, supply, and demand: what’s happing to workers as the oil industry decarbonises?

When the pandemic hit in 2020, the oil and gas industry had just emerged from sharp downturn that started in…
Going nowhere: the offshore industry’s methane problem

Global momentum behind climate change mitigation has, once again, brought the high-levels of fugitive emissions from upstream oil and gas…
Q&A: the outlook for oil and gas in Africa with the African Energy Chamber

Decarbonisation and the shale gas revolution were already creating challenges for the African offshore oil and gas industry. Then the…
Joe Biden is president-elect: what now for US oil and gas?

After a tight race that took several, agonisingly long days to deliver a result, Democrat Party leader Joe Biden has…

Shaky shores ahead: can a new oilfield bidding round rebound Nigerian oil?

In a bid to bolster the country’s declining oil reserves and meet its high production targets, the Nigerian Department of…
Ocean Infinity: launching the autonomous Armada fleet

Ocean Infinity was formed in 2017 based on the idea that different autonomous technologies could be combined to gather and…
Sizing up Somalia: a new offshore oil frontier in the making

Somalia's Potential as an Offshore Oil Frontier Since the late 60s, civil unrest has prohibited the exploitation of Somalia’s offshore…
Thawed relations hit strange times: inside the Saudi-Kuwait Neutral Zone

Bordered by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the Persian Gulf, the Neutral Zone is a 2,230 square mile patch of land that was left…
Losing the social licence: what should the UK oil and gas industry do next?

At the beginning of the year, Oil and Gas Authority chairman Tim Eggar sent a stark warning to the industry: if…