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Creating Value Through Active Stewardship

By Rune Jensen, Senior Partner – Stavanger, Norway Value creation in private equity has historically been perceived as a form of financial engineering based on an investment philosophy of “quick in – quick out”. However, in recent years the...

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The Future of UKCS: Small (and Agile) is Beautiful

By Greg Herrera, Senior Partner When the Americans decided to embark on the space programme for the moon landings in the early 1960s, they famously said that they chose to do it “not because it is easy but because it is hard”. Something of that...

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Collaboration is King

Sometimes it’s only by looking at the extremes of behaviour beyond your own industry that you get a sense of what is possible, desirable and profitable. This applies especially in supply chain collaboration, where we in the upstream oil and gas...

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Shale Shock

by Helge Tveit, Managing Partner Dogged by poor recovery rates and rapidly declining well output, the shale oil sector has disappointed since the initial boom. But investment in innovative refracking technologies can change that dynamic and deliver...

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A Digital Oilfield: The Shape of Things to Come

By Per Arne Jensen, Senior Partner The year 2030 sounds futuristic. It seems a long way off. In fact, we are closer to it than we are to 2008 – the year of the global financial crash – the effects of which continue to reverberate in the...

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Looking to the future of the oil and gas industry

by Einar Gamman, Senior Partner In a series of blogs, our senior partner, Einar Gamman looks into the future of the oil and gas industry, exploring the sector’s hot topics – the burning questions we need to address to guarantee the oil and...

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Digital transformation energises the future

By Einar Gamman, Senior Partner In a series of blogs, our senior partner, Einar Gamman explores the oil and gas industry’s hot topics – the burning questions we need to address to guarantee the oil and gas sector doesn’t just survive but...