Collaboration in UK onshore oil and gas sector hits new high

The UK’S offshore oil and gas industry is executing the recommendation to collaborate, returning its highest score todate on this aspect of its activity, a new study has found.

Data from Deloitte and Oil & Gas UK found that the sector is putting into practice the suggestions of the Wood Review, which identified collaboration as a fundamental behaviour towards securing the successful future of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).

The 2017 UKCS Upstream Supply Chain Collaboration Survey, which sought the views of more than 150 firms, returned a collaboration index score of 7.1 out of ten, from 6.6 in 2016. Additionally, 95 per cent of respondents said collaboration was an integral part of their day-to-day business, up from 86 per cent in 2016 and 74 per cent in 2015.

Graham Hollis, senior partner for Deloitte in Aberdeen, said: “We are starting to see real progress in terms of improved behaviours leading to more successful collaboration outcomes in the UKCS.

“Companies now need to accelerate the transformation and embed these new ways of working to ensure their future high performance, regardless of oil price.”

Oil & Gas UK’S continuous improvement manager Mariesha Jaffray said: “Provided these results are built upon, we have every reason to believe that the UKCS will become the most attractive mature basin in the world with which to do business.” 0 ‘Real progress’: Graham Hollis of Deloitte in Aberdeen