We are NXG: New thinking for the next generation, forged from experience.

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.

What excites you about the future?: Our model is working. We know this from client wins and the fact that customers are coming to us, rather than us chasing them. It’s a win-win for all concerned.

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 It’s a vibrant, can-do business on a mission to change outdated practices in the BHA market by introducing next-generation thinking: it’s why we’re called NXG.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.

What excites you about the future?: Our CircSub technology. Developed in-house, it has the potential to be a genuine game changer. Again, this encapsulates our next-generation approach.

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.

What excites you about the future?: The enthusiastic client response to our new technology offering. All the new product lines we are bringing to the market will give our clients real-time cost savings and efficiencies, in particular our Multi-Activation CircSub.

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 (IADC).

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.

What excites you about the future?: I’m looking forward to working with senior management and staff at NXG as we look to grow the business.

Career highlights: More than 30 years’ industry experience, the vast majority of it in drilling. Held management positions for past 13 years in UK, Asia and the Middle East. I’m responsible for operations at our Aberdeen base.

What makes NXG a great company?: We have a great team here with tremendous knowledge of the oil service industry. In addition, we have the flexibility, experience and processes to respond quickly to client needs.

What is NXG’s biggest success far?: Our commitment to QHSE is important for the business and everyone at NXG; it’s vital to have the processes and procedures in place for a safe working environment.

What excites you about the future at NXG?: The growth of the company going forward, our spend on new equipment is ongoing. There’s great potential in a number of regions including West Africa, Asia and mainland Europe.

Key role: The overall strategy and delivery of NXG’s cutting and abandonment capabilities, from procedures and processes to resourcing and business development.

Career highlights: More than 33 years’ experience across a broad range of engineering disciplines with Halliburton, Schlumberger, Weatherford, Apache, TAQA, Shell, BP and Nexen to name a few.

What makes NXG a great company? It’s a fluid and flexible business that isn’t conservative in approach. We’re not set in our ways; we’re applying current thinking to today’s issues. We have the ability to forge an exciting future

What is NXG’s biggest success so far?: We have the capability and expertise to professionally respond to client requirements in demanding timescales. We have carefully built up a reputation to deliver a quality product that the market wants.

What excites you about future?: Our cutting and abandonment offering is disruptive in its approach. We have a high degree of flexibility to deliver project requirements on tight timescales, regardless of the complexity of the project. We will build upon our initial capabilities to be in a position to offer a broad spectrum of engineering solutions to a global market.