You don’t need to be a project manager to know teamwork is a number one priority when working in the Oil & Gas industry.
This is especially true when your work environment is a lonesome rig in rough seas many miles from dry land.
Here, both from a safety perspective and an output targets focus, it’s vital everyone knows not only their own role and responsibilities, but also those of their colleagues.
Yes, just like a well-managed and hard-trained football team, to be winners everyone must be in the right place at the right time – and know precisely what they and those around them should be doing.
This high degree of close co-operation is now being put into action at a corporate level, too, with a rising number of the UK’s Oil & Gas operators signing up to two important initiatives.
The Standard Study Agreement and refreshed Commercial Code of Practice are designed to improve efficiency and reduce the commercial and legal complexities of working offshore.
In particular, however, the revisited Code – established in 2001 by Oil & Gas UK – is designed to help firms take a co-operative approach to reaching commercial agreements.
In all, 30 companies have now committed themselves to this Code, highlighting a boost to co-operative thinking and working.
According to Oil & Gas UK, this also shows the industry’s Efficiency Task Force is working well as a catalyst to make our domestic industry resilient and globally competitive.
This month, in a similar show of togetherness, a compressor company has pledged to design products specifically for use in oil and gas.
A three-year investment programme will see Howden Compressors, based in Renfrew, spend £1.2 million creating compressors that can be used to produce air and gases in challenging environments, such as those in the heart of the North Sea.
The project, which will get £431,000 funding from Scottish Enterprise (SE), will create up to nine jobs.
A Dundee-based components manufacturer, meanwhile, has also invested £250,000, backed by SE, to push growth centred on oil and gas.
In fact, since February last year, SE has supported 70 R&D and innovation projects, worth £16 million, involving oil and gas firms and their supply chains.
It certainly looks like teamwork could see even more opportunities for signing new players.
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