A collaboration between two North East businesses has been recognised for its innovation by the global oil & gas industry.
OES Oilfield Services and Askaris Information Technology, which both have offices in Stockton-On-Tees, have been presented a prestigious ‘Spotlight on New Technology Award’ from the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) for its Dropped Objects safety innovation.
The global offshore asset inspection specialist has been named among just 13 companies worldwide by OTC, which celebrates the latest and most-advanced hardware and software technologies leading the offshore industry into the future.
OES’ innovation, Dropped Objects Prevention Programme (DOPP), which was developed by Askaris IT software engineers, is a technologically-innovative tablet-based, four-stage programme, which evaluates each rig site’s ability to control, implement and mitigate Dropped Objects.
Using this information, a bespoke awareness package is created and delivered to all personnel on the rig in the form of classroom and on-site hands on training.
Richard Upshall, Executive Chairman, and Euan Lockhart, Chief Executive Officer, collected the award for OES, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2016.
Richard Upshall said: “This is the culmination of not only 20 years in the industry, but also of the vision I had to involve professionals from other industries in bringing the oilfield inspection business forward and up to date.
The addition of OES Chief Operating Officer, Enis Suleyman, from a UK ISP, and Sean Allison, a specialist in cyber security, has seen OES change and update unrecognisably in so many ways. This award is affirmation that our innovation is effective in every way.”
“OES has always been at the forefront of technology and been the act to follow. We have watched our competitors mimic our programmes over the years, but in the last year or two, OES has once again stepped away from the competition with suite of programmes developed in partnership with Askaris with further apps are being developed for release throughout 2016. There is nothing like it in the market, and we don’t feel there will be for some time.”