Is your expert ready for the cut and thrust?
Meetings between experts are intended to highlight areas of agreement regarding the questions asked of them and their considerations. The output should be a useful…
ViewRigs, ships and razorblades
The successful bidder was rumoured to be the Gillette Razor company, fuelling the myth that when old ships go to die, they come back as…
View‘We’re not in Kansas anymore’
In a recent case, one of our experts was supposed to give testimony in Houston. After much coronavirus-induced postponing, he was summoned. By this time,…
ViewLions and tigers…and shares, oh my!
This Esso ad, which ran from the late 1950s to the oil crisis in the early ’70s, implied a significant performance improvement by injecting the…
ViewFlat-bottomed boats make the turbine world go round
We first got involved in offshore-wind energy projects back in 2010. The Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm, off the Norfolk coast, had been approved in…
ViewAwakening sleeping dragons
[Ensco DS6, Epeus archive] As drilling contractors look to awaken their deep-sea drilling monsters, can they learn a lesson from The Hobbit? …
ViewMixing the perfect cocktail of expertise
Most ordinary folk view carbon-emitting energy and fossil-free alternatives as chalk and cheese. So do politicians. At the project level, though, similarities are everywhere. We’ve…
ViewFor offshore wind, aspirations threaten profits
As offshore wind demands ever-larger turbines, are the players gambling too much to satisfy their aspirations? Two views of the same project, from owner…
ViewThe quest for more predictable, and more profitable, projects
Managing large complex feats of engineering requires a different mindset to ‘business as usual’ operations. We offer three reasons why and suggest an approach…
ViewWhat to do when the wind changes
The current subsidies for offshore wind allow companies to set their own agenda, baking in more time to intervene and manage uncertainty. But that’s…
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