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 Album artwork for: nizzle hizzle - hizzlewood
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 Talkin Shish severals social media pages were created as part of the campaigns vi-
ral marketing strategy, including venues & characters which exsisted
Viral campaign funded by public health to spread the awareness in the world of the mocumentary series.
about the health risks that come with smoking shisha.

The project was designed to deliver health information in a young

person friendly and engaging way. This consisted of a series of short
videos that were produced with young people, accompanying
workshops to develop ideas and online personas for fictitious
shisha bars & characters which gave out further health messages
surrounding shisha smoke.

Talkin Shish Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/talkinshishpage/

The Happy Hookah shisha bar facebook page

ON SET - the happy hookah marketing campaign at carnival arts centre, luton

TALKIN SHISH YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccIOXsUhDCE

Arabian knights shisha bar facebook page
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Christmas events
Happening in Dorset & in the New Forest
The Julias House
Christmas Grotto
Wimborne Square, 19th and 20th December,
11am until 4pm. 6 per child
with proceeds going to the hospice.
The Upton Country Park
Christmas Grotto
Open until December 24th.
Feed the reindeer, turkeys and piglets
before entering the grotto to meet Santa and
his elves. 12.95 per child, 7.95 for under
2s and 2.95 per adult; includes a gift and
photo.
St Marks Church
Christmas services
Talbot Village - Sunday 20th December
10.30am there will be a crib service with
nativity for all the family, and at 6pm there
will be carols by candlelight.
www.dream-cottages.co.uk
Bransgore Methodist Church
Christmas Tree Festival
Chapel Lane, 19th - 20th December
Morning service at 10.30am and tea at 4pm
followed by a carol concert at 5pm.
Cattistock Room, Civic Centre
Festive Family Barn Dance
Tuesday 29th December 29th, 7pm - 10.30pm.
With live music performed by The Old Pull
and Push barn dance band.
7 for adults, 2 for children.
For tickets contact c.suter@poole.gov.uk
before 23rd December.
Stewarts Garden Centres
Winter Wonderland
Christchurch & Wimborne until Christmas Eve.
7.95 for children aged seven months to
14-years-old and includes a gift from Father
Christmas.
8 Acne
Surprising Facts About
1 Its the most common skin Nodules and cysts are deeper pimples that
should be treated by a dermatologist. They
condition in the United States. are usually very large, painful, and solid.
(Cysts are pus-filled.)
According to the Academy of Dermatology,
mild to moderate acne affects between 40
and 50 million Americans. And while acne
usually begins in puberty and affects almost 5 Washing your face a lot
wont clear up blemishes.
100% of teenagers, acne is not restricted to
any age group. In fact, acne affects 20% of Over exfoliating and over cleansing can
adults between the ages of 25 and 44. actually exacerbate your acne problems. It
irritates and dries your skin out, which makes
2
you produce more oil. And overdoing it with
Theres only one way to get a
pimple.
acne treatments can have the same effect.
So stick to a morning and night regimen
cleanse, medicate, and moisturize.
When your faces oil glands overproduce oil
6
and combines with dead skin cells, it blocks
your pores and hair follicles. Then, bacteria
Chocolate doesnt cause
develops in those clogged follicles and pores, breakouts.
causing a breakout.
Neither does pizza or fries. Actually, theres
little evidence that specific foods actually do
3 But outside triggers can make
breakouts worse
cause acne. Although, staying hydrated and
eating a healthy diet can help improve skin.
7
Heredity, hormones, and environmental Makeup with mineral oil can
factors can determine how bad you break
aggravate acne.
out. And stress, diet, exercise, and how you
care for your skin also plays a part. Other
Actually, anything made with oil can. And that
hidden culprits? A dirty cell phone, used yoga
includes your moisturizer or hair products
mats, and pillowcases, all of which are full of
that might seep onto your face. Instead,
dirt, bacteria, and oil.
look for products that are oil-free or that say
4
noncomedogenic on the label.
There are 6 types of pimples.
Blackheads and whiteheads are slightly
raised bumps that are caused by oil, dead 8 Sun exposure can help
minimize breakouts.
skin cell, and bacteria buildup that blocks
Spending small amounts of time in the sun
your pores. Papules and pustules are larger
can be beneficial for acne 10 to 20 minutes
bumps that are caused when blocked pores
is ideal. But too much sun exposure can be
become irritated. Papules are hard, raised
a bad thing: It can cause more breakouts
bumps that might be tender to touch.
and darken existing acne scars. And no
Pustules (which are often confused with
matter how long youre in the sun, wearing
whiteheads) are topped with white or yellow
sunscreen or an oil-free moisturizer with SPF
pus-filled lesions and are red at the base.
is a must.
graphical mix of artwork produced for snap this collages were used as flyers to promote the organisation
In 2013 I successfully secured funding from Our Big Gig to promote a two-day festival in the High Town Area of Luton, as
part of a nationwide festival program.

I curated this project through SNAP/33, in which I also contacted many other local organisations who wanted to get
involved, which in turn provided us with further funding to put on stages across the area.

Across the two-day festival we used venues Charlie Browns (Now Bar 32), The Freeholder, The Painters Arms, The Brick-
layers, Hope Church, Scandinavia Caf, High Hats & Shop 33. I also contacted Luton Culture and sound system suppliers
to set up a temporary stage in one of the car parks on the road.

I also played a key part in marketing the event, which included writing press releases, contacting local news publica-
tions, designing logos/posters/flyers, sharing content digitally across social media and creating web-based promo-
tional videos, as well as a dvd documentary.

High Town Festival 2013 Poster

article i wrote to promote the festival -
promotional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ4JztzxqVY
published in herald & post newspaper


in 2014 i secured funding from Our Big Gig again - to promote Swamp-
fest at the Hat Factory Arts Centre, Luton.

The Festival was set up as part art exhibition part gig, utilising the
Hat Factorys gallery to display artwork, caf for bands to perform
and courtyard for themed food/DJs.

The entire space was decorated with a Deep South/Swamp theme, in

which I collaborated with a local art collective to produce papier
mch models, fabric based dcor and projected visuals.

Flyers/posters i designed for one day music & art festival in luton. promotional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yn0W4a1is4
 poster for event I promoted at the Moat house, luton
poster for event i promoted at high town festival 2015
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F1
The
Can
Boost
When companies are looking
to boost brand awareness, their
database of contacts and demand
for their products it usually involves
advertising, attending trade fairs
and a lot of research. Its time-
consuming and certainly isnt
targeted. A one-stop shop is the
Holy Grail of marketing but thats
exactly whats on offer in Formula
One auto racing and California-
based flash storage firm Pure is the
latest convert.
From the outside F1 may look like
little more than cars going round
a track but in reality it is driven
by data. Each car has around 1.25
kilometers of wiring and up to 150
on-board sensors. Some of them
give readings up to 1,000 times per
second and data is sent wirelessly
from the car to the garage. This
gives around 1.5 billion samples
of data from each race which are
monitored in the garage and on
supercomputers back at the teams
factories.
It makes a perfect showcase for a
tech firm to display its wares not
Brands
just to the 400 million viewers who
watch F1 on television every year
but also to its peers. F1s corporate
hospitality outfit, the Paddock Club,
attracts the bosses of some of the
worlds biggest tech firms which
partner with the teams in the series.
Their input can make the difference
between winning and losing.
Time is everything in F1 as cars are
often separated by just thousandths
of seconds. A slow decision, a poor
connection or a lack of hardware
capability can put the brakes on a
podium position which in turn can
cost a team the championship and
tens of millions of Dollars in prize
money.
Its a harsh environment but that
gives a bright glow to the top
performers and that is exactly why
Jonathan Martin, chief marketing
officer of Pure, steered the brand
towards F1. It became a global
partner of reigning champions
Mercedes this year and, as Mr
Martin explains, it has a clear idea of
the journey ahead.
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what do you provide to F1 How are your products used in F1?
(other than cash)?
To increase the performance of its IT infrastructure the team uses all-flash
We provide all flash storage arrays to the arrays from Pure Storage which have delivered blinding speed, unprecedented
team. reliability and availability, and significant savings in operating costs.
Why did you choose F1 rather than another sport?
When did your F1 partnership
begin? 2016 is the first year that Pure Storage have engaged with global sports
sponsorship. F1 was particularly attractive given the global nature of the sport
and its heavy reliance on technology. We have also signed a sponsorship
It started in March 2016.
agreement with the San Francisco Giants this year.
How did the deal come about
(who approached who and when)?
In 2014 the IT team started to
evaluate how changes in the storage
infrastructure might contribute to the
goal of ever-improving performance.
In a process lasting more than a year,
the team along with solution provider
Response Data Communications
considered all the storage vendors across
the board and every kind of technology.
Once the decision to go with Pure
Storage had been made, the commercial
team approached us about becoming a
technical partner.
 As compliance pressure Technology has been in their back offices just as long
as anywhere else. The difference now is that the technologies
are evolving at an extreme rate.

mounts, businesses turn to

And, its not like all the players are new. Many are the same

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big-name consultancies that are always around when big
money is at play. With their large staffs, established customer
base and technology acumen, they can migrate into the space

regulatory Technology
without major hurdles.

As for startups, any worth their salt will be working closely

with major clients and have rock-solid technology. The key for
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startups to succeed in regtech is to master one, highly focused

More than seven years after the financial crisis
began, economies worldwide are growing. Much of
the recovery has been led by government spending,
including massive sums on infrastructure projects.
Those projects typically involve a lot of interaction
between governments and local partners, especially
in emerging markets where the need for those
joint ventures is greatest.
While that has helped those economies grow, it has also driven
worldwide growth in compliance. In fact, security company
Kroll calls the combination of government contracts, emerging
market exposure and third-party agents a high-stakes trifecta
from a fraud-risk perspective, introducing a lot of potentially
bad actors, like a shady procurement or contract manager.
Along with increasing fraud and security risks to governments,
the risks to businesses worldwide are rising too. Fraud and
corruption are up, especially in emerging markets. In Nigeria,
the incidence of fraud is 30%; in Egypt, its 44%.
Even in the developed world its a significant issue.
The incidence of fraud in the U.S. is 16%; in Germany, its
26%. At the heart of the problem is the enormous amount
of commerce now taking place in the digital world, where it
has become increasingly difficult to parse the bad actors from
the good ones. According to Ernst & Youngs 2014 Global Fraud
Survey, at least one in 10 executives reported their company
had experienced a significant fraud in the past two years.
Cybercrimes are on the rise, too, posing ever-more menacing
risks to businesses and governments. According to research
from the Economist Intelligence Unit, close to one-third of
businesses worldwide have seen an increase in the number of
cyber attacks over the past year. In May, FBI agents and police
in 17 countries arrested more than 90 users of a malicious
software known as Blackshades, which is used to commit
everything from extortion to bank fraud.
New digital initiatives at financial institutions
and other businesses means more
opportunities for fraud and cybercrime.
All this means businesses are under mounting regulatory
pressures, and that is driving substantial growth in compliance,
which will ultimately lead to more aggressive enforcement on
the horizon.
Last January, for example, the U.S. Justice Department warned
banks it would begin aggressive enforcement to improve
compliance with anti-money laundering prohibitions. Ernst &
Young also reports a shift worldwide toward more aggressive
enforcement and penalties for fraud, corruption and economic
crimes. Canada, for example, has amended its anti-corruption
laws, Hong Kong has set up a task force to detect corporate
fraud and France created a new Central Office Against
Corruption, Financial and Fiscal Offenses as part of broader
financial crime reform.
With the expansion of the number and complexity of
compliance laws comes a corresponding increase in the need
for technology. A whole new industry buzzword has come
about, regtech, which revolves around creating solutions that
ease the burden of compliance. The same drivers that create
the need for new regulations also enable technologies to
comply with those regulations: the internet, big data, open
APIs and advanced analytics
.
If companies fail to embrace the new regtech opportunities,
theyll face increasing costs for compliance, while
simultaneously decreasing their productivity, capacity and
efficiencies. Its sink or swim for regulated institutions; either
they adapt and introduce new technologies that allow them
to be more nimble, flexible and productive, or, they continue
to use labor-intensive processes that will become increasingly
cumbersome and untenable. Can compliance departments
continue to hire, some hiring 500% in just a few years, as
noted in a Booz Allen Hamilton 2014 investigation?
It has to be difficult for regulated institutions. Institutions, by
nature, are conservative. They have developed processes over
years that limit their risks, hired and trained staffs that are
given oversight because of their knowledge and expertise and
have known procedures for dealing with regulators.
Now they are supposed to change that based on some
newfangled technology from some young, emerging upstart?
Where do they even begin?
While that might be the perspective from some institutions,
the reality is that regtech, while a new term, is not really new.
niche. By offering best-of-breed solutions, they can deliver
value where larger players or in-house staff dont bother to
show up. If they can leverage that value into a solid track
record and a stable ongoing concern, theyll gather even more
clients as the operational risk decreases.
For example, one niche where technology can immediately
assist institutions in their regulation compliance is identity.
No number of new government committees and task forces
will be able to protect businesses and organizations if they
dont know, on the most basic level, with whom they are
doing business. And the bigger an organizations footprint, the
greater its compliance risk and requirements.
One of the most fundamental ways to
prevent fraud is to make sure fraudsters
dont enter in the first place,
says Stephen Ufford, CEO of Trulioo, a global identity
verification company that I work with to help with anti-money
laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) rules. Many
companies fail to detect fraud simply because they dont run
appropriate checks and especially for those doing business
in emerging economies, that can be a real challenge, says
Ufford.
Automated detection systems and identity verification tools,
however, which lean on the availability of big data, go a
long way toward helping organizations meet compliance
requirements and protect themselves.
Businesses are under mounting regulatory
pressures, and that is driving substantial
growth in compliance.
Australias government, for example, instituted new
National Identity Proofing Guidelines in order to strengthen
its identity proofing processes and increase trust. It now
considers verifying a persons identity a critical starting
point for everything that follows, whether its private sector
transactions or the delivery of government services. Australias
guidelines recommend confirming identity in non-traditional
ways, not just by looking at a persons birth certificate or
drivers license but also by their activity in the community
where they live, work, shop, interact and that includes the
online community, too.
A more recent example that illustrates the ever-changing
regulatory landscape happened a few months ago when the
government of Canada revised rules regarding acceptable
methods to determine client identity. These rules create
flexible methods for verifying identities, acknowledging the
use of new technologies and access to reliable, independent
data sources, including all levels of government, crown
corporations, financial institutions and utilities.
New technologies are helping make that kind identity
verification possible, taking a variety of innovative approaches
to fight fraud. For example, there are verification services that
do social verification a non-traditional
approach to verifying identity. This helps deliver a Verified/
Not Verified binary response for identity intelligence retrieved
from a montage of data sources, including traditional ID
data, such as government records and credit files, as well as
alternative data from mobile applications, ad networks and
social networks, to verify a persons identity.
Verifying users can help businesses avoid a host of problems,
from financial fraud to cyberbullying. Businesses have the
ability to configure the tool any way they like, to meet the
compliance needs of their market.
Organizations worldwide are investing in innovative tech tools,
especially financial institutions. In fact, worries about fraud
(especially international fraud) are reshaping spending at
banks, whose 2015 budgets include more spending on IT, with
a big chunk of that going to compliance.
Research firm Ovum expects U.S. banks to spend 4.3%
more on IT in 2015 than they did in 2014, and there have been
huge increases in spending on security and fraud technology
initiatives at U.S. banks, according to an article from American
Banker.
New digital initiatives at financial institutions and other
businesses means more opportunities for fraud and
cybercrime, but along with that, more opportunities for
technology to meet and mitigate those threats.
 The milestone means that, for the first time, a computer can This will make Cortana (Microsoft personal

Microsoft's
new speech recognition technology
recognise the words in a conversation as well as a person
would.

In doing so, the team has beat a goal they set less than a year
ago and greatly exceeded everyone elses expectations as
well.
assistant) more powerful, making a truly
intelligent assistant possible,
Shum said. To reach the human parity milestone, the team
used Microsofts Computational Network Toolkit (CNTK), a
home-grown system for deep learning that the research team
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reaches 'human parity' thought we could have achieved this. I just
wouldnt have thought it would be possible,
said Harry Shum, executive vice president who heads the
Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research group.
The research milestone comes after decades of research in
speech recognition, beginning in the early 1970s with DARPA,
the US agency tasked with making technology breakthroughs
in the interest of national security.
This accomplishment is the culmination of
over 20 years of effort,
said Geoffrey Zweig, who manages the Speech & Dialog
research group.
The milestone will have broad implications for consumer and
business products that can be significantly augmented by
speech recognition. That includes consumer entertainment
devices like the Xbox, accessibility tools such as instant
speech-to-text transcription and personal digital assistants
such as Cortana.
CNTKs ability to quickly process deep learning algorithms
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across multiple computers running a specialised chip called a
graphics processing unit vastly improved the speed at which
the team was able to do research and, ultimately, reach
human parity.
Moving forward, the researchers are working on ways to
make sure that speech recognition works well in more real-life
settings.
That includes places where there is a lot of background noise,
such as at a party or while driving on the highway.
In the longer term, researchers will focus on ways to teach
computers not just to transcribe the acoustic signals that come
out of peoples mouths, but instead to understand the words
they are saying.
The next frontier is to move from
recognition to understanding,
Zweig said. However, speech recognition is still a long way to
go. TheVerge points out,

Microsoft still needs to tune

Microsoft researchers from the Speech & Dialog research group include, from back left, Wayne Xiong,
Geoffrey Zweig, Xuedong Huang, Dong Yu, Frank Seide, Mike Seltzer, Jasha Droppo and Andreas Stolcke.
the technology to work as well
with conversations in a wider
In a major breakthrough in the field of speech recognition, The 5.9% error rate is about equal to that of people who range of more challenging real-
Microsoft researchers have created a technology that were asked to transcribe the same conversation, and its
the lowest ever recorded against the industry standard
life situations and with a broader
accurately recognises the words in a conversation like humans
do. Switchboard speech recognition task. selection of voices. And for use
cases such as Cortana, much
The team from Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research
reported a speech recognition system that makes the same or Weve reached human parity. This is an of the difficulty comes from
fewer errors than professional transcriptionists. historic achievement, said Xuedong Huang, teaching the artificial intelligence
the companys chief speech scientist in a to understand the meaning of
The researchers reported a word error rate (WER) of 5.9 %, words and act on them, not just
Microsoft blog post.
down from the 6.3% WER the team reported just last accurately hear them.
month.

Chinese nuclear expertise now extends
across a number of key technologies
small modular rectors, fast breeder reac-
tors to Generation IV reactors. China has
a great many operational reactors right
now, adds Colin Elcoate. They are gain-
ing experience at a more rapid rate than
the rest of the world, because no-one else
is building any new facilities. China now
has a lot of experienced people in the
industry and their capability is fantastic.
They have built US, Canadian, Russian
and French reactors at home, and have
learned from all these experiences.
SPX FLOW: CHINESE
NUCLEAR POWER
INDUSTRY AMBITIONS
Colin Elcoate of SPX Flow discusses developments in China, new opportunities in
power generation and what structure an organisation now requires to succeed.
Spun-off from SPX Corporation in
September 2015, SPX Flow, Inc. was
formed to pursue a more flow-focused
strategy and capitalise on the organi-
sations strengths for the global food
and beverage, power and energy and
industrial markets. SPX first acquired a
flow-related business, Lightnin Mixers, in
1998 through the merger with General
Signal. Three more companies joined in
2001 Waukesha Cherry-Burrell pumps
and valves, Brann+Luebbe metering and
dosing pumps and Dollinger filtration
SPX Flow is now actively pursuing some
of these new opportunities available
in the Chinese nuclear industry. We
are seeing three to four new projects a
year in China and we have started early
engagement in their export projects, for
which the timing is still uncertain.
However, it is a fascinating dynamic,
says Colin Elcoate.
VICE-PRESIDENT BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT POWER OF SPX FLOW
products in the acquisition of United
Dominion Industries. There were further
smaller acquisitions of Copes Vulcan,
M&J Valve, Hankison and Johnson Pump,
and all the businesses were consolidated
under a single management team.
By 2007 the flow business had grown to
annual revenues of more than $1 billion
and the company focused on specif-
ic end-markets process equipment
for food and beverage, air treatment
products and pumps, and flow control
> COLIN ELCOATE
products for the power and energy
markets. Leading supplier to the dairy
and food industry APV was acquired in
2007, while the purchase of ClydeUnion
Pumps in 2011 significantly expanded
the global reach of the company in the
power and energy industry. ClydeUnion
had been formed through the combina-
tion of Clyde Pumps and Union Pumps,
Clyde Pumps having previously acquired
the Weir Pumps business in 2007.
With the ClydeUnion acquisition, the
final product lines of SPX Flow were
greatly increased and include critical
pressure pumps, metering systems,
dosing pumps, speciality valves and
valve closures, chemical injection skids,
filtration and air dehydration equip-
ment. The Power and Energy division
of SPX Flow now serves the oil and gas
industry, nuclear and other convention-
al power industries.
> NUCLEAR DEVELOPMENTS IN CHINA
One of the major growth areas for SPX
Flow recently in the power and energy
sector has been in the Chinese nuclear
industry. As Colin Elcoate, vice-president
Business Development, Power of SPX
Flow explains, the companys historic
strength in the country has been a
major building block. China has been
a stronghold for us for some time, he
says. We had established a good instal-
lation base of 300-400 pumps through
a wide variety of projects all over the
country. Consequently we needed to
look at how we serviced these instal-
lations. The Chinese nuclear industry
is quite a close-knit community, so we
decided that the best way was to estab-
lish regional meetings where we could
meet the engineers and inform them
of all the latest advances and upgrades.
In this way we have been able to build
strong links within the industry.
However, as the Chinese nucle-
ar industry has developed, a much
greater quantity of process equipment
has been sourced locally rather than
imported. Colin Elcoate explains: This
has occurred through a mixture of the
establishment of local companies
In addition, there is considerable invest-
> A RESIDUAL HEAT REMOVAL PUMP, ment in the renewable energy sector
WHICH IS NOW BEING DELIVERED TO at present. However, nuclear energy is
firmly part of this mix and China contin-
TIAN WAN IN CHINA.
ues to plan new projects every year.
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China is looking for a balanced portfo-
lio in its energy market, but to meet de-
mand and help address environmental
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issues nuclear is going to be a huge part
of what they do, says Colin Elcoate.
They also see it as a big opportunity to
develop technology for the future and
use this expertise in nuclear projects
elsewhere in the world. So we are now
seeing them coming to the market with
new designs for export markets. This
presents us with new opportunities be-
designing and building their own prod- cause many of the Chinese suppliers do
ucts and joint ventures with overseas not have a global support network. As
companies, through to companies a result they are interested in forming
wholly-owned by overseas producers partnerships with western companies
but with a Chinese manufacturing facil- to meet these export opportunities.
ity. However, China has big ambitions
in the nuclear industry and we are very They are also investing in decom-
keen to be a part of it. missioning and have established a
European office to service this. Having
China has embarked on a transfor- built all these reactors in China, they
mation of its energy mix. There are are ultimately going to face the same
currently initiatives to improve the decommissioning and clean up issues
environmental footprint of the coal that the rest of the world does, so they
power generating industry, while the are now investing in that knowledge.
development of gas powered stations They want to grow this capability in
Europe, so they can take this back to
are also underway. In addition, there is
China when it is required.
considerable investment in the renewa-
ble energy sector at present. However,
Local representation is important, he
nuclear energy is firmly part of this
says. From initial engagement right
mix and China continues to plan new
through to after-market support, and
projects every year.
throughout the life cycle of their pro-
ject and your product, you have to have
China is looking for a balanced portfo-
lio in its energy market, but to meet de- someone based locally. <
mand and help address environmental
issues nuclear is going to be a huge part
> A LARGE CONCRETE VOLUTE PUMP BEING
of what they do, says Colin Elcoate.
INSTALLED IN CHINA. THESE PUMPS ARE MADE
They also see it as a big opportunity to
BY CLYDEUNION PUMPS IN GLASGOW, UK.
develop technology for the future and
use this expertise in nuclear projects
elsewhere in the world. So we are now
seeing them coming to the market with
new designs for export markets. This
presents us with new opportunities be-
cause many of the Chinese suppliers do
not have a global support network. As
a result they are interested in forming
partnerships with western companies
to meet these export opportunities.
China has embarked on a transfor-
mation of its energy mix. There are
currently initiatives to improve the
environmental footprint of the coal
power generating industry, while the
development of gas powered stations
are also underway.
 >BHP said in June that the GOM is one
of just three places it plans to focus for
petroleum drilling. And the strategy
already appears to be paying off with
the company saying last week it has hit a
significant oil discovery in the Caicos well
on the Green Canyon Block, located in the
offshore south of Louisiana.
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Improving numbers in the offshore are
in fact driving a small renaissance in
deepwater activity. With analysts at Evercore
ISI reporting this week that September
permitting of deepwater wells in the U.S.
50% SPREAD FOR
rose month-on-month.

Of course, that amounted to only six

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In fact, BHP has said that economics of
deepwater discoveries like this are actually
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wells. But its worth noting that those six
deepwater permits made up the majority
of the ten total permits granted in U.S.
OIL PLATFORM P-52 some of the best in the world right now. waters during September. By contrast,
WHICH OPERATES IN THE With the company noting that increased
CAMPOS BASIN. capital efficiencies (read, much lower drilling permitting for shallow-water wells fell 70%
and services costs) have made development as compared to September 2015.
projects like the companys Mad Dog 2 field
That shows the drilling sector in general is
in the GOM viable at oil prices below $50
THE still suffering from the current downturn

BIGGEST
per barrel.
Such shifts in cost structure are making
offshore a big deal again. Stealing focus
from onshore shale, which has become
much more dubious economically, given
the big upfront costs to get into key plays
like the Permian as well as the significant
requirement for sustained capital spending
to keep up production.
in energy prices. But that deepwater is fast
emerging as a potential standout for the
industry, even in these tougher times.
Where should we be looking for this trend
to keep unfolding? Aside from the newly-
invigorated pre-salt of Brazil, news this week
gives a few other ideas globally.

BRAZIL'S CAMPOS BASIN

>OPPORTUNITY RIGHT NOW IN OIL AND GAS RIG CAN OPERATE IN UP TO

3,000 METERS OF WATER

OFFSHORE EXPLORATION HAS BEEN A RARE BRIGHT
SPOT FOR THE GLOBAL OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY LATELY.
Some of the movement in the offshore sector is coming as
governments get more accommodating in an attempt to
spur drilling and increase revenues at a time when drilling is
down across the world. With this weeks news about the big
changes to Brazils petroleum laws being a prime example.
> BIG PLAYERS like SHELL are already moving to take
advantage of this shift in Brazil. Announcing that they are
moving ahead with the development of the
8 BILLION-BARREL LIBRA PRE-SALT FIELD here.
And Brazilian officials reported late this week that the
100%
shift to foreign ownership is having a wider effect.
With Petrobras CEO Pedro Parente telling the press that
international firms began contacting him about opportunities
on the same day that Brazils Congress voted to change the
laws.
And its not just governments that are getting motivated when
it comes to letting go of good assets. Major E&Ps are also
putting some important fields on the block. With the Financial
Times reporting Wednesday that Chevron is in talks to sell its
Bangladesh assets for up to $2 BILLION.
Even though Bangladesh isnt a place we hear a lot about it,
these fields are actually quite strategic. Mainly consisting of
natural gas production with proximity to one of the worlds
best natgas markets, in Southeast Asia.
It will be very interesting to see who might emerge as a
potential buyer here. Especially given that a number of big
oil and gas players seem to be speeding up their pursuit of
offshore assets.
Players like integrated producerBHP BILLITON . Which the
Australian Financial Review this week reported is considering
a big move in offshore development namely, making an
entry into deepwater Mexico.
According to the paper, BHP currently has a team of 50
PROFESSIONALS poring over the geology of Mexicos
deepwater plays. Looking to determine if a bid makes sense as
part of upcoming licensing rounds.
That would be a major jump for BHP into completely new
territory. Although such a move would fit very well with the
companys current operations in oil and gas which have
focused recently on deepwater development in the nearby
U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
>SHELL , for example, said it plans to
drill two deepwater exploration wells in
offshore Tanzania by the end of this year.
And the frontier North Sea continues to look
interesting with Suncor saying last week it
will pay up to$215 MILLION to buy a 30%
interest in the Rosebank natgas project near
the Shetland Islands from OMV.
There are even some ultra-radical new ideas
being floated these days. With a consortium
led by Chinas CNOOC reportedly planning
3D SEISMIC in the offshore of Iceland a
place some geologists believe could have
similar potential to the northern North Sea.
All of which suggests this is a sector to
keep an eye on for energy investors and
project developers. Watch for deals being
done on offshore assets (Thailands PTTEP
is reportedly on the hunt for new fields),
and for new opportunities to emerge as
governments and big players loosen the
strings on leading plays around the world.
HERE'S TO GOING DEEP.
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