Disruption within the Marketplace: Impact of Energy Transition in the Asia Pacific region

The rise of disruption throughout the marketplace creates new challenges for businesses to maintain their role within the business arena. The energy market is in the process of transitioning and thus creates new challenges for businesses. The question arises, “how do businesses manage disruption with the marketplace to maintain their role?”

Come along to hear from Ralph Ellis, President Operations Services-Asia Pacific at Wood, about how Wood is managing this to maintain their role within the energy market amidst this disruption, focusing on how energy transition is impacting the Asia Pacific market for Wood and its clients.

Learn how to employ similar strategies to help your business embrace disruption within the market.

About our Guest Speaker:
Ralph Ellis is President Operations Services - Asia Pacific with Wood. Ralph leverages his 28 years' experience within the oil and gas industry, leading Wood’s operations services business across Asia Pacific. He moved into the role from his position as senior vice president - Western Australian and Asian operations in 2017 where he held responsibility for the safe delivery and overall performance of a portfolio of contracts for customers including Woodside, ConocoPhillips, Hess, Exxon Mobil, and Chevron. Ralph joined Wood Group in 2014, having previously fulfilled project manager and director positions for customers including Shell and BP. With an honours degree in mechanical engineering, Ralph commenced his career in the sector holding project and discipline roles, developing his expertise in engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance across brownfield and greenfield facilities, before moving into senior and executive management positions. His focus will be maintaining and growing Wood's Asset Solutions business in the region, and leveraging new opportunities and client relationships through close collaboration with our Specialist Technical Solutions and Capital Projects capability. Ralph is a member of the Petroleum Club of Western Australia and sits on the advisory council of the Clontarf Girls Academy; a not-for-profit charitable organisation that develops and empowers Aboriginal girls through leadership training, mentoring, sport and extra-curricular programs, working within the school system to provide the support needed to help them realise their full potential.

About Wood:
Wood is a global leader in the delivery of project, engineering and technical services to energy and industrial markets. Wood operates in more than 60 countries, employing around 60,000 people, with revenues of over $10 billion. Wood provides performance-driven solutions throughout the asset life-cycle, from concept to decommissioning across a broad range of industrial markets including the upstream, midstream and downstream oil & gas, power & process, environment and infrastructure, clean energy, mining, nuclear and general industrial sectors.

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