Oil & Gas

How has the lack of production in the Gulf of Mexico impacted your job?

Several of our customers have discussed that with the rigs moving out of the Gulf they are shifting personnel to longer stints overseas. Some companies are not hiring as many hands and several business segments have been hit hard by the restrictions on new permits in the Gulf, but has your own job required more travel recently?

As drilling on and offshore becomes more and more technologically intensive, innovation becomes a huge competitive advantage in the oil & gas industry. A recent issue of Forbes magazine carried an article by three business school professors who have studied the world’s most innovative companies for the past eight years and they have reported their studies in a new book, The Innovator’s DNA.