Not only did companies and institutions in Aberdeen City and Shire develop the first oil and gas industry in the North Sea, they have also evolved and adapted their industry more than once to survive in changing circumstances and to develop the technologies and working practices that keep Scotland at the forefront of the global energy race.
In Aberdeen City and Shire, industrial capability meets academic excellence and together they are developing innovative technology and working practices that will transform our energy industries – oil and gas and renewables especially. Our research and development base connects and enhances the capabilities of universities and innovation centres locally, across the UK and internationally. These partnerships combining industry demand and expertise with academic capability and skills will help create competitive advantage in the wider energy sector. Increasingly, innovation in the area of renewable energy is playing a larger part in our endeavours to create the energy sources of the future.
Aberdeen City and Shire’s appetite for renewable energy has led it to host five offshore windfarms either constructed or under development, with a combined investment value of over £5bn. At the cutting edge of the industry and embodying innovation are Equinor’s Hywind floating project, the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre which will prove efficiency improvement and cost reduction techniques and the Kincardine floating wind development which will trial a new foundation type. There are also two tidal developers based in the area and the potential for these technologies to supply services to the oil and gas industry are being investigated.
Drawing on the local skills base of over 1,000 local energy companies, over 34,000 employees, embedded science and the unrivalled problem solving skills, innovation is being created across the technologies from environmental science, geoscience, oceanography, meteorology, hyperbaric pressure testing, engineering, instrumentation, performance monitoring, accreditation and hydrogen transport and storage to technology development, certification, cables, moorings and connectors, operations and maintenance and onto people skills such as logistics, emergency response, standards, training, health and safety.
In Aberdeen City and Shire we are shaping the energy industries of the future.
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