NXG DRILLING - Key Persons
Key role: My key role is to support the NXG management team's international growth ambitions, ensuring all facets of the business are ready to scale up as and when required
Career highlights: More than 40 years in oil and gas. I was Weatherford managing director for UK, Netherlands and Denmark for eight years, leading a workforce of 1,000-plus. I was also UK chairman at Weatherford and chairman of the International Association of Drilling Contractors
What makes NXG a great company? NXG adds value to projects due to the level of expertise within the business.
What is NXG's biggest success so far?: It's been an impressive feat to assemble such an experienced management team in such a short space of time.
Key role: Commercial strategy, whether it's ensuring sound financial management, aligning our internal communications or engaging the market with our value proposition.
Career highlights: Applying 25 years of financial and business expertise to lead NXG's acquisition of a Hunting division in 2017. I also secured investment for several oil & gas service firms.
What makes NXG a great company? It's a vibrant, can-do business on a mission to change outdated practices in the BHA market by introducing next-generation thinking: it's why we're called NXG.
What is NXG's biggest success so far?: Communicating to global oilfield service firms that a structured, measured approach yields significant operational, rental and logistics gains.
Key role: Leading the NXG business, from ensuring the right people are on board to communicating NXG's fresh approach in the drilling tools and technology sector.
Career highlights: Surviving the cut and thrust of the oil & gas industry! NXG is perhaps the highlight to date - the timing is right for new thinking: clients are looking for better solutions.
What makes NXG a great company? It's the quality of the team assembled at the business. The knowledge and expertise in meetings is outstanding.
What is NXG's biggest success so far?: Global businesses can take time to change their ways, partly due to the sheer size of operations. However, they have quickly realised that our transparent model is the way forward.
Key role: Securing additional business in the UK, Middle East, West Africa, the Far East and other regions, while also supporting operations - in particular our manufacturing and machining operation.
Career highlights: More than 25 years' experience specifically in BHA, drilling tools and tubulars, from technical support to leading day-to-day operations in the UK and Norway.
What makes NXG a great company? There's huge experience in the business, in every discipline and at every level. We've created a dynamic, proactive culture at NXG.
What is NXG's biggest success so far?: We've secured long-term contracts with global oilfield services companies that understand our approach is the way forward. We've shown that the reactive, short-term thinking to project planning and execution belongs in the past.