Webinar series: Growing Australia's Oil & Gas Supply Chain

04 June 2020

Australia's oil & gas supply chain is not yet meeting its full potential and has substantial opportunities for growth. However, through a coordinated effort between suppliers, operators, governments and research organisations, it has the potential to triple in size over the next decade, adding an extra $7 billion of value (GVA) to the economy.

These are the key findings in NERA’s ‘Growing Australia’s Oil & Gas Supply Chain’ report — the first time the size and composition of Australia's oil & gas supply chain has been analysed to determine its challenges, economic potential and opportunities for growth. To unlock this potential, the Report identifies three key opportunities to strengthen local supplier capabilities that can build a more mature, resilient and competitive domestic supply chain, generating up to $49 billion GVA in 2030 — a 20-30% increase on its GVA in 2016-17.

This three-part webinar series breaks down the key findings of the report, highlighting the central challenges and growth opportunities for the supply chain, and discussing with industry innovators their insights and experience of growing domestic and global markets, as well as working in high cost environments.

We encourage you to read the Supply Chain report prior to the webinars and you can access it via this link.

Webinar details

1. Increasing the complexity level of Australia's energy supply chain

Held on Thursday 4 June 2020

This one-hour webinar discusses:

  • Overview of report, including why the research was initiated and AlphaBeta’s involvement in this process.
  • A summary of key findings including a summary of the present supply chain situation and key strengths of Australia’s oil & gas supply chain.
  • Discussion of some of the challenges and opportunities.
  • Live Q&A.

The webinar was facilitated by Roma Sharp, NERA SME Engagement Manager, with panelists Miranda Taylor, NERA CEO, and Toby Brennan, Alphabeta Managing Director.

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2. How innovation in high cost environments can create global value

Held on Thursday 11 June 2020

This one-hour webinar discusses:

  • The findings around the impact of high-cost environments from the Growing Australia’s Oil and Gas Supply Chain report.
  • How the challenges of working in a high-cost environment can be mitigated, including a focus on supporting and encouraging local innovation.
  • Insights and experience shared by guest speakers from technology companies working in these environments and why it is important to move beyond the local and simple to the global and complex.
  • Live Q&A.

The webinar was facilitated by Paul Hodgson, NERA GM Innovation and Stakeholder Engagement (East Coast), with panelists Miranda Taylor, NERA CEO, Michael Ilett, Exploration Drill Rigs (XDR) Executive Director, and Stephen Harris, Pressure Dynamics Commercial Director.

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3. It's tough being global and local

Held on Thursday 18 June 2020

This one-hour webinar discusses:

  • Overview of challenges faced by SME suppliers growing in to the global O&G supply chain, including opportunities, priorities and pain points.
  • Discussion of how these challenges can be mitigated.
  • Insights and experiences from global businesses and clusters.
  • Live Q&A.

The webinar was facilitated by Dr Francis Norman, NERA GM Innovation and Strategy, with panelists Miranda Taylor, NERA CEO, Dr Colin McIvor, Subsea Innovation Cluster Australia Cluster Manager, and Erik Nijveld, TechnolodyCatalogue.com Managing Partner and Co-Founder.

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