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magazines in the UK. The ? rst editor was

Rick Wilkinson, a New Zealand-born geologist who had been working for the

Oil Man, but came over to work for OE.

People

Meg Chesshyre, who has watched the industry grow and has been a long-term contributor to OE, says: “The North Sea oil industry in the 1970s had a predicted 10-year life span. By the early 1980s,

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Britain had become a net exporter of

By Elaine Maslin oil, and by the mid-1990s, gas. A press trip out to Shell’s Brent ? eld revealed platforms on the horizon in all directions both in the UK and Norwegian sectors.

Now, Brent is being decommissioned.

Over 40 years on, the focus is on main- taining the aging infrastructure originally only designed for 25 years.”

While the magazine’s early focus was ? rmly on the large structural engineering features it ran on the offshore industry, side of the business, re? ecting its origins 40 years of OE “went down like a bomb,” Levett says, in the civil engineering business, OE has exciting the journalists who wrote them, developed to focus on all aspects of tech-

In Spotlight, we highlight including Adrian Cottrill. Cottrill’s early nology and engineering in the offshore individuals who help make identi? cation of the industry as “one to oil and gas sector, helping engineers from the o