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Oil & Gas Middle East sat down with Miguel Sanchez, vice president, international operations at Nabors, to discuss his firm’s growth in the Middle East

Can you explain Nabors’ relationship and history with the Middle East region? Nabors® has over 35 years of experience in the Middle East. We began operations in Saudi Arabia and Yemen in 1990. Since 1999, we have worked in countries including Algeria, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Iraq, Kurdistan, Jordan, and Qatar. Nabors has an extensive and […]

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The oil and gas industry must act to turn climate-change ambition into action

Rising to the challenge of climate change needs to be part the energy industry’s strategy through this year and beyond

One of the most significant trends of 2022 will be how the oil and gas industry acts against climate change. Already, international and national oil companies (IOCs and NOCs) around the world have ambitious plans to reduce the greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions from their operations—part of national agendas against climate change. The challenge is now to […]

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The Middle East’s inherent energy transition advantage

Oil & Gas Middle East caught up with Siemens Energy’s Head of New Energy Business MEA, Manuel Kuehn, for a discussion on where the Middle East stands as a hub for the energy transition

Is the energy industry doing enough to embrace sustainability and the energy transition? I think the energy industry is doing a lot, whether it’s going to be enough, other people will evaluate sooner or later, and we will see if we achieve our climate goals or not, but what I see is an incredible momentum […]

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The oil and gas industry must act to turn climate-change ambition into action

Rising to the challenge of climate change needs to be part the energy industry’s strategy through this year and beyond

One of the most significant trends of 2022 will be how the oil and gas industry acts against climate change. Already, international and national oil companies (IOCs and NOCs) around the world have ambitious plans to reduce the greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions from their operations—part of national agendas against climate change. The challenge is now to […]

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Future O&G: Using unified operations to boost productivity and profitability

By unifying business operations into a single interface, oil and gas companies can improve their efficiency, agility and reliability, says Rashesh Mody, Senior Vice President, Monitoring and Control Business Unit, AVEVA.

The shock of the pandemic highlighted the critical importance of agility and adaptability in the oil and gas (O&G industry). But, in an unexpected silver lining, many of last year’s challenges helped reveal areas of low digital maturity, including the industry’s reliance on engineers out in the field and the fact their work was often […]

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