Girish Kabra is the Director of North Sea Operated Assets at Spirit Energy; responsible for a number of Spirit's assets. Hear his story and his recipe for successfully extending the life of mature fields.

Since her first stint offshore as a jack-up stewardess at just 21 years’ old, Steph Sunley, a Logistics Supervisor and Elected Safety Representative, has been a passionate advocate for improving the industry's safety performance. 

More than 27 years since production first started in the Greater Markham Area (GMA), it continues to exceed expectations, with collaboration, hard work and unwavering faith in a promised outcome undoubtedly factors behind its success.

Diversity and inclusion (D&I) is a major discussion point in the oil and gas industry, and a topic that's particularly close to the heart of Mustafa Mohamed, Spirit’s Incident Free Workplace (IFW) Programme Manager.

Arnaud Mille, Asset Manager for the Greater Warwick Area (GWA) chats about his career at Spirit Energy.

Norway needs more engineers and technologists. Although women make up 60 per cent of those in higher education in Norway, only about 20 per cent opt to study engineering. And despite numerous measures to motivate them to choose this path, numbers have been stagnating.

Sixteen miles west of Blackpool, offshore England’s northwest coast, lies Spirit Energy’s Morecambe Bay gas fields, now in their fourth decade of pioneering gas production. Leading the charge are Operations Manager, Steve Newton and Morecambe Hub Asset Manager, John Cowie.

Over the years, the oil and gas industry has been under scrutiny for its ‘race to be second’ mindset; a reluctance to take a risk on new technologies. But Spirit Energy has tried to buck that trend – our courage, curiosity and openness towards new ways of working most recently demonstrated during the ongoing decommissioning of our A-Fields development.

In March 2019, a new chapter was written in Spirit Energy’s history, with first oil achieved from the Oda field – the company’s first operated development on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). Production started five months ahead of schedule with the project coming in 15% under budget.

Exploration Geologist, Alex Stuart, the third generation of his family to grow up in East Africa, developed a fascination with the way the earth was formed and the processes that continue to shape it today.