How petroleum engineering skills are supporting green energy With oil companies increasingly coming under scrutiny for their contribution to global warming, its appropriate that the skills used to exploit fossil...
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Huge impact on oil businesses using consultant contractors On the 6th April 2021, the UK off-payroll tax regulations known as “IR35” apply to all large and medium sized companies operating...
Demand increases for OPC Online technical training While the Covid-19 pandemic has had so much negative impact to world economy, one positive has been the upturn in remote working and...
How we are continuing to mobilise during Covid-19 The global pandemic has presented many challenges to businesses, perhaps the biggest challenge OPC have faced is the mobility of our operational...
Oil Price Forecast - October 2020 by Fergus Robson, OPC Economist & International Business Director Our Last Prediction In January of this year, OPC took the view that 2020 oil...
Multi-well deconvolution for field start-ups in the North Sea By Alex Thatcher, Petroleum Engineer, OPC I was delighted to be asked to present to the SPE Aberdeen section about multi-well...
Pressure rate deconvolution - Corrib gas field case study By Alex Thatcher, Petroleum Engineer, OPC I was delighted to be asked to share an example of the work I have...
Pandemic shows huge advantages of remote working By Piers Johnson, Managing Director, OPC As a person who has always thrived on meeting and networking, I thought I’d hate the lockdown...
Lockdown on assignment in Qatar What’s life like working on assignment in Qatar during lockdown? We caught up with Alan Brown who is a consultant production forecasting lead and part...
New contract award with NOC to evaluate investment opportunities OPC has been awarded a contract with a National Oil Company to provide a suite of exploration, appraisal and development services...
Middle East operators press ahead with projects Even in the middle of a global pandemic, work continues within oil and gas exploration in the Middle East. We caught up with...
Chris Bayly retires after 39 years in the industry Chris Bayly, most recently OPC Training Manager is retiring at the end of May after 39 years in the oil and...
Well covered for return flight from Doha OPC Business Development Manager Stuart Cameron returned from Qatar to the UK earlier this week and decided that appropriate PPE should be worn throughout...
OPC embraces home-working As a reaction to the current Coronavirus pandemic, this week OPC implemented a company-wide work-from-home policy, a move that has been embraced by everyone. Thankfully the OPC...
Piers Johnson and Bill Roberts deliver well testing modules to Masters students at the Institute of French Petroleum (IFP) OPC Managing Director Piers Johnson has just returned from lecturing to...
Product Price Prediction III - February 2020 by John Wright, OPC Consultant Petroleum Economist Like the wider oil industry community, OPC are affected by product prices and thought a three-monthly...
OPC's Toby Gledhill at advanced carbonate workshop OPC's Toby Gledhill took part in an advanced carbonate workshop: "Carbonate-Evaporite Systems", run by Cambridge Carbonates on 18th-20th November 2019. The workshop focused on sequence...
Positive developments at ADIPEC 2019 Riley Smith, General Manager for MENA, and Piers Johnson, Managing Director attended ADIPEC 11th - 14th November and held a number of positive meetings with...
OPC team turns to Martial Arts for self-defence Seven colleagues in the OPC London office have started learning Martial Arts incorporating Jeet Kune Do, self defence and kick-boxing. Our magnificent...
OPC awarded licence to operate in Kurdistan region OPC has been awarded an official licence to provide oil and gas reservoir studies, manpower and technical training to oil companies operating...