Blogs

By Colin Black FEI, Managing Director of CarjonNRG Ltd, SPE Aberdeen Director
and UK Partner of TechnologyCatalogue.com

Across the UKCS and other global basins, operators are preparing for large-scale plug and abandonment (P&A) programmes that will stretch current capabilities, challenge long-established practices, and demand a level of coordination that the industry has never previously required.
What is emerging, however, is a far more connected ecosystem: one where technology visibility, project transparency, and structured knowledge sharing are beginning to close longstanding gaps in efficiency and performance.

Technology and innovation are critical drivers of business performance. That’s why energy companies increasingly task their teams with accelerating the adoption of new solutions. Yet one question remains stubbornly difficult: how do you turn innovation into tangible business value?

Welcome to our weekly Q&A blog series with CEO and Co-founder, Erik Nijveld. 

In blog #2 of the Q&A series, Erik highlighted how you can streamline your technology scouting activities.

The technology scouting activities will result in a number of technology deployment opportunities for your company. In today’s blog, Erik will answer questions about our Technology Stress Test methodology, which allows you to rank the opportunities and focus on the top ones.

Welcome to our weekly Q&A blog series with CEO and Co-founder, Erik Nijveld. Last week, Erik shared his views on creating strong links between technology scouting and technology deployment. Erik articulated the importance of having a clear technology strategy, and how the strategy drives the tech scouting activities, together with the business needs.

There are many companies that offer products and services for technology scouting. In this blog, Erik will explain where TechnologyCatalogue.com fits in, and what distinguishes the platform from the competition.

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Welcome to our weekly Q&A blog series with CEO and Co-founder, Erik Nijveld. Last week, Erik shared his views on why companies need a Technology Deployment Manager, See blog here. In this week’s blog, we will be discussing the link between technology scouting and technology deployment. 

Ready? So are we!

Welcome to the launch of our new weekly Q&A blog series. After sharing an interview blog with our CEO and Co-founder, Erik Nijveld (See blog here), we got the idea to create a series of weekly Q&A sessions with Erik for this month. Erik brings a wealth of experience, having previously served as a Technology Deployment Manager at Shell. 

In this first edition, Erik sheds light on the pivotal role of a Technology Deployment Manager and why it's indispensable for companies aiming to stay ahead in today's rapidly evolving technological landscape. 

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This year, on March 1st, TechnologyCatalogue.com marked a significant milestone as it celebrated its 6th anniversary. Recently, we reflected on this milestone together with CEO and Co-founder, Erik Nijveld. Today, we have the pleasure of meeting with the other founder, Vincent van Beusekom. Vincent - as the COO and CTO - is responsible for platform development and operations. 

This year, on March 1st, TechnologyCatalogue.com marked a significant milestone as it celebrated its 6th anniversary. In honor of this achievement, we had the pleasure of catching up with CEO and Co-founder, Erik Nijveld, to reflect on the journey to date and explore the exciting paths ahead. Continue reading to discover the platform's origin and evolution, its client-centric solutions, and insights into future plans, including details on the current funding round.

The energy industry has truly pushed technological boundaries over time. Yet, it is also clear that there is significant room to further accelerate technology deployment to address current challenges such as climate change, digitalisation, ageing assets, cost pressures. 

As a result, many people have been tasked with building a Technology Plan for their organisation. In this blog we give you some practical guidance to get started with creating such a plan.

TechnologyCatalogue.com supports companies in finding, selecting, ranking and deploying the right technologies to reduce CO2 emissions, increase efficiency and improve safety. We are thereby focusing on companies in the energy sector.

To substantiate on how end-user companies can benefit from TechnologyCatalogue.com, our Sales Manager Judith Nugent will answer relevant questions below.

TechnologyCatalogue.com views industry associations as a strategic partner in reaching a wider network of technology end-users, suppliers and deployment partners. 

Their annual or semi-annual gatherings have proven to strengthen connection, commitment and knowledge sharing among members. Nonetheless, having another venue to connect and share knowledge 24/7, regardless of where their members are, holds great value, especially in times where there is a blurring line between online and offline communities.

With this in mind, TechnologyCatalogue.com Co-Founder and CEO Erik Nijveld shares in this Q&A blog how we would like to collaborate with industry associations.

TechnologyCatalogue.com generates high quality leads at competitive cost

Lead generation—attracting potential customers to your business—is the primary driver for most marketing activities. We use online and offline channels to reach our target market, capture their interest, and convert them into clients.

In this blog, we will examine the cost per lead—average gross spent per lead acquired— of popular B2B lead generation channels and compare them with that of TechnologyCatalogue.com. 

The internet is so crowded these days. We hear you, and we can relate. So, let us help each other out on getting more visibility in the busy internet space. Let’s do this by jazzing up your tech or tech expert page on our platform. 

Pages on TechnologyCatalogue.com are indexed by Google and other search engines, making them part of the search results whenever someone looks for something relevant to your technology or expertise on the internet. 

So, how do you then get noticed among hundreds, thousands or millions of search results they get? Check out a few tips that will help!

Over the years we have supported multiple companies with streamlining their technology delivery. Our Technology & Innovation Framework has thereby proven to be very powerful. In this article, we provide a high-level overview of the framework.

Webinars have been the most effective—and for a large part, the only—way to talk to potential customers globally at once in the last two years. While exhibitions and conferences are back and face-to-face meetings are taking place again, there is no doubt webinars are here to stay given its inherent capacity to introduce your technology from your desktop to interested users sitting anywhere else in the world.This is why TechnologyCatalogue.com looks at webinars as another strategic channel to promote innovative solutions on the platform.

Robotics technology and artificial intelligence (AI), has been a major ingredient in the oil and gas industry’s success in bringing down costs and increasing efficiency in their operations. It has also significantly improved the safety culture in its key processes, especially when maintaining assets in or involving hard-to-reach areas such as storage tanks, offshore platforms, etc. 

Now that the world is looking to transition to renewable energy, will robotics technology have the same key role and great contribution to the efficiency improvements, and consequently cost reduction in this industry?

Offshore renewable energy—composed of offshore wind and solar and ocean energy technologies—presents huge potential for additional global capacity. With its clear synergies with the [offshore] oil and gas industry, opportunities for technology and skillset transfers are also strong accelerators of its growth. 

We invited Danielle Veldman, Customer Relations Manager of Netherlands Wind Energy Association, to share her insights on key issues surrounding the development of offshore wind energy in the Netherlands and Europe in general.

A different, more inclusive future awaits exhibitions

By Erik Nijveld, Co-Founder & CEO of TechnologyCatalogue.com.

Conferences and exhibitions in major industries have been viewed for years as effective venues to build and reconnect with your network, learn new insights into the industry, and seek potential leads. COVID-19 has prevented or seriously limited the majority of  face-to-face conferences in 2020 and 2021, but they are fortunately coming back as the health risks brought by the global pandemic have been contained and effectively managed. Face-to-face conferences are back, but the entire networking, knowledge-sharing and lead generation landscapes have changed forever.

The Energy Industry has been in the centre of intensifying calls for a more sustainable future, putting pressure to transform the current energy system to rely less on fossil fuels amid a steady increase in energy demand. The industry has also been susceptible to volatile political situations around the world. 

These factors have pushed industry players to continue innovating to reduce carbon footprint, improve efficiency and reduce costs. Time and again, technology has been an enabler for all these to happen. Yet, despite the undeniable role that technology has played, it is also clear that there is significant room to further accelerate the speed of technology deployment.

The good news is: technology deployment can be done… faster and with higher chances of success! 

Ocean renewable energy, which includes tidal energy, wave energy, ocean thermal energy conversion and salinity gradient, offers huge potential to contribute to the Energy Transition. With the vast water resources available to many countries, ocean renewable energy is deemed a natural power source for many countries, especially for their coastal communities.

Given the huge potential of ocean renewable energy technology to contribute to a more sustainable future, we invited Dr Mary Ann Q. Franco, a Research Fellow at the Energy Studies Institute, for an interview.

Energy Storage, a system that captures energy at one time and stores it for later use, is seen to be a crucial part of the backbone enabling Energy Transition.To join the global conversation on Energy Storage, we invited Shannon O’Rourke, Chief Executive Officer of Australia-based Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre (FBICRC). Prior to joining FBICRC, Shannon was with Woodside Energy for more than 14 years. He was Head of Commercialisation then General Manager for New Energy at Woodside Energy, where he founded the company’s Hydrogen, Carbon and Carbon Capture and Storage Businesses. Read his insights in this blog.

It is no secret that TechnologyCatalogue.com, with over a hundred thousand users in 2021 alone, is a gold mine for data on technology and innovation for the Energy Transition. We can generate data that can be translated into actionable insights needed in finding and selecting the right solutions for your business, of course fully compliant with GDPR. And from this month onwards, we are providing these insights to the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), Embassies and Consulates via the Tech Insights Navigator.

Egypt is a major gas producer in North Africa and the Middle-East with strengthened efforts to ramp up its renewable energy sources. Being the most populous country in the region, Egypt aims to maintain energy security by diversifying energy sources as evident in its Integrated Sustainable Energy Strategy (ISES) to 2035.

 To give us insights on Egypt’s energy diversification efforts, we invited our Egypt partner and energy veteran Hossam El Dandarawy for an interview.

Start-ups have a key role in accelerating the Energy Transition as they develop and offer disruptive technologies that help decarbonise economies. They introduce solutions that digitise energy ecosystems, democratise power generation, better monitor and measure energy use. 

To give us insights as to how start-ups can fully contribute in achieving a more sustainable future, we invited our US partner Hani Elshahawi, a thought Leader, entrepreneur, and game changer, for an interview.

To give light on the potential of Hydrogen to drive the Energy Transition, we invited Dr. Victor Nian, an expert in energy and sustainability strategies with 15 years of experience in energy and technology fields. Here, he provided an overview of how hydrogen can enable a transition to a cleaner, low-carbon energy system and cited challenges and opportunities for its large-scale development and implementation. Read his insights in this blog.