Workpackage 2: Petroleum and Renewables
Summary
Leader: Professor Patrick (HWU/IPE)
Industrial Liaison: Dr Olivier Dubrule (Total E&P Aberdeen)
In addition to the named investigators HWU staff wishing to collaborate and contribute to this workpackage include many staff from the Energy Academy at HWU and partners in the Energy JRI within the Edinburgh Research Partnership.
Overall Goal: To explore and enable a greater exploitation of the synergies between the offshore petroleum and the marine renewables sector.
Introduction: Both sectors face similar challenges and problems in working in extreme environments, but there are significant differences in scale. Little formal exchange has apparently taken place between the two industry sectors. The increasing innovation in the petroleum sector may have an important role to play in the development of renewables and marine renewables in particular. The petroleum industry has a track record of participating in the development of renewables technology and this is expected to grow as petroleum companies diversify into broader energy companies (Corbett et al., 2007 ).
Resourcing Estimate
Some support to be provided by ICIT from core funding but strands 2 and 3 in particular best supported by additional RA input.