This year, ONS conference and exhibition is celebrating its fortieth anniversary. Since change is a constant factor in the offshore industry, this will be this year's theme.
Major field developments have been replaced by less costly subsea solutions. New business areas and occupational tasks arise, while others have disappeared. Fewer people work offshore and new countries come to dominate the energy stage. Access to resources is also shifting its centre of gravity, and affects the markets, such as for example shale gas has done.
What Is around the Next Corner?
Everything changes, so the question is what is around the next corner. Which natural resources will be most in demand? Which will we stop turning into energy? Will renewable forms of energy become commercial enough to create an explosion in innovation and business development like that in the oil and gas industry? It is the combined global technology industry that drives the world forward. The oil and gas industry is a natural component of this high-tech wheel.
Which changes will affect the industry in the years to come? And how will the industry’s innovation and technology development lead to world change? These are the issues that will be raised at ONS 2014 under the main theme Changes.
Increased Exhibition Space
Due to the addition of two new exhibition halls, the exhibitions space has increased by 2800 m2 to 23,907 m2. The conference area will be relocated to the new Clarion Hotel Energy, adding another 1000 m² of exhibition space from the former conference halls in Hall K. This will now include the Jobs & Education Zone.
ONS 2014 takes place 25 – 28 August in Stavanger Norway.
