Insights

Essays from our engineers and operations desk on doing oilfield work well in Nigeria.

Saying partner where we mean partner has won us more work, not less.

The window is short and the creek does not wait. Here is how we plan backwards from it.

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Valve QR codes: a year on. What changed in shutdown planning.

Night journeys: why our boats stop at dusk, and what it costs.

Training welders in host communities: lessons from 400 graduates.

Solar at Onne: the first year of running a yard off the grid.

Phased array in the swamp: inspecting welds the same day.

How we price mobilisation, and why it is a separate line.

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