Monday 6 November 2006

Oil and Gas Share Fair Attracts Record Numbers

Over 600 visitors have signed up for the annual PILOT Share Fair at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre on Wednesday (November 8).

The event aims to provide small and medium sized suppliers to the oil and gas industry with information necessary for long-term business planning.  Visitors can expect to learn about the activities scheduled over the next 18 months by16 major oil and gas companies, representing potential new business estimated to be worth in the region of £5 billion.

Acergy, AMEC, BG Group, BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Halliburton, Maersk Oil North Sea UK Ltd, Marathon Oil UK Ltd, Nexen, Shell, Technip, Total, Wood Group, Petrofac and Subsea 7 will all be exhibiting at the event, which is sponsored by RBG. 

The companies will be talking about their strategies for the North Sea, including upcoming drilling programmes, technology requirements, Brownfield, environment and integrity projects; plans for operations and maintenance; decommissioning and development projects, as well as giving out company contact details.  Delegates can listen to group presentations or gain detailed information in pre-booked private one-to-one sessions with prospective clients.

Tom Smith, managing director, Nessco Ltd, and co-chair of the Industry Leadership Team said: "We are delighted with the response to this year's PILOT Share Fair.  As activity in the North Sea has heightened and pressure on resources increased, planning horizons have been extended further than we have seen for many years.   We are being required to be ever more efficient at allocating our people, goods and services to ensure we maximise every opportunity to recover the UK's oil and gas reserves.  The Share Fair is the perfect mechanism to allow suppliers to keep abreast of business developments and industry to gauge suppliers' appetite for staying committed and focused to developing the UK continental shelf."

PILOT Share Fair 8 opens at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre on Wednesday, November 8 from 7.00am (for registration).  Presentations will be given in the Boyd Orr Hall from 9.00am, while one-to-one sessions will be held in the Gordon Suite.  The Fair closes at 4.00pm.

Note to Editors

• PILOT is a joint Government/Industry initiative established in January 2000 to secure the long-term future of the UK oil and gas industry.  
• The PILOT Share Fair on Wednesday, November 8 is the eighth to be staged since the fairs were launched in 2002.  They are a key element of the Supply Chain Code of Practice and are designed to provide a platform to oil and gas operators and major contractors to communicate their activity plans to the supply chain. Further information is available at http://www.pilottaskforce.co.uk.

For more information, please call 020 7802 2400.