Awakening 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? …
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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…
ViewThe sweet spot where expertise transfers
Debates rage within the renewable energy sector. Some trumpet the circular economy, others economies of scale. Another question is how green an energy solution really…
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…
ViewGetting your project back to warp speed, in a strange new world
Suspending major, complex engineering projects brings many challenges. The true impact of the current global slowdown will only be apparent when projects start up…
ViewManaging risks on large complex projects
PART 3: Elements of Project Risk Maturity (PRIMA) In the first two parts of this series, we looked at…
ViewManaging risks on large complex projects
PART 2: Comparing challenge levels across phases Leaders who want to maximize their project profits need to find the right level of project risk maturity…
ViewManaging risks on large complex projects
PART 1: Assessing the challenge We’re all familiar with the alarming statistics of failure rates for large projects—the kind with budgets that make your eyes…
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