Offshore Analytics is an award-winning engineering startup that performs AI-powered and satellite-based methane leak detection for oil & gas facilities, enabling real-time monitoring, regulatory compliance, and ESG reporting at scale.
Dr. Lawrence B. Wilcox is the Founder & CEO at Offshore Analytics. He is an engineering specialist, research scientist, and visiting professor with more than 15 years of combined work experience in the energy industry and academia. Dr Wilcox holds a PhD in petroleum engineering, an MSc in oil & gas engineering, and a BEng in mechanical engineering. His areas of expertise are computational geomechanics, advanced manufacturing technology, numerical simulation, and offshore well integrity.
Dr. Wilcox has worked and lived in Canada, Netherlands, England, USA, Nigeria, and currently resides in Scotland where he works as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National Decommissioning Centre — conducting research in offshore energy decarbonisation, infrastructure re-use & repurposing, and energy transition on the Data for Net Zero (D4NZ) project. He works with a team of researchers to develop tools for quantifying and reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with decommissioning offshore energy assets, and the possibility to re-use and re-purpose oil & gas infrastructure for renewable energy generation.