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PUBLISHING & MARKETING

OE Opinion

Chairman

Shaun Wymes [email protected]

President/Publisher

Undercurrents

Brion Palmer [email protected]

Associate Publisher

Neil Levett [email protected]

Winds of change

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Managing Editor hat a difference two years make. have the sort of shortages they saw back

Audrey Leon

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The theme of any industry con- in the 1980s, and again just four years [email protected] ference over the last few years has dealt ago, when engineers with 10-20 years’

European Editor

Elaine Maslin with how to recruit the next generation experience were in short supply. And, [email protected] to stave off the impending Great Crew also not let rates escalate again, an issue

Web Editor change and perceived skills gaps. raised by Wood Group’s Bob Keiller at

Melissa Sustaita

However, this year, for many, the SPE Offshore Europe in 2013.

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Contributors theme has been more about job cuts. “It’s important that we take a long-term

John Bradbury, Meg Chesshyre, Emma Gordon,

Bloomberg recently described the latest perspective and make an assessment not

Greg Hale, Heather Saucier, and Jeannie Stell round of job cuts as the “largest cost cuts only of today’s needs but of future skills

Editorial Assistant

Jerry Lee in a generation.” Cutbacks across the needs,” says Kevin Higgins, Petrofac, of

Editorial Intern industry total US$180 billion so far this developing talent in today’s environment.

Elia Barnett year, the most since the oil crash of 1986, “That includes making sure that funding

ART AND PRODUCTION analysts Rystad Energy told Bloomberg. of essential training is continued, and

Bonnie James Despite all that, we’re gearing up that we work hard to retain graduates.

Verzell James for this year’s SPE Offshore Europe The same can be said for apprentices,

CONFERENCES & EVENTS this month (8-11 September), with the and for other key and scarce skills disci-

Events Coordinator

Jennifer Granda conference theme: “Inspiring the next plines.” [email protected] generation,” chosen to underscore the Companies need to re-think how they

Exhibition/Sponsorship Sales importance of attracting new talent into run their businesses, weed out dead

Gisset Capriles [email protected] the industry, even when most OE staffers weight, get the good people to train the have heard many times that ? rms simply young, and be leaner.

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Quad Graphics, West Allis, Wisconsin, USA aren’t hiring right now. One of those companies making the Offshore Europe co-chairman Charles case for lean is Hess. In OE’s May issue,

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