Workpackage 2: Petroleum and Renewables
Strands
- Facilitation of “petroleum and renewables”
exchanges - initially explored in a series of themed workshops
concerning the marine renewables sector, formal and informal networking,
involving both sectors and invited participants. MREDS aims to be
a forum bringing together marine renewable SME’s and potential
petroleum industry interests. A wide range of topics from engineering
design and standards, availability of support services, to lessons
learned in regulatory compliance will be explored in this way – Professor Patrick Corbett with Dr Olivier Dubrule acting as
industrial liaison.
[Outputs: Reports from workshops and from informal networking]
- Issues of magnitude and scale in applying the offshore
industry experience and lessons to be learned - Developing as
a study but incorporating the experiences and exchanges in Strand
1 this output will document those areas where greater exchange may
assist the development of the marine renewables sector, and define
the constraints to this in terms of differences in magnitude and scale.
For example, in the cost of projects and differing operating environments.
North Sea experience will be disseminated across international operators
(Brazilian and Japanese petroleum majors have indicated interest in
the marine renewables sector) – Dr
Rob Harris, Professor Patrick
Corbett with Dr Olivier Dubrule acting as industrial liaison.
[Outputs: Report of this study and publications]
- Renewables synergies with petroleum industry innovation - seeking to elaborate present and possible future innovation within
the petroleum industry and the potential for sharing the experiences
to the benefit of both sectors. This includes investigation of the
greater use of renewables technologies in offshore petroleum - Professor
Patrick Corbett
[Outputs: Report of this study and publications]
- Major international conference “Petroleum and
Renewables” - with a focus on marine renewables will form
the principal vehicle for disseminating the results of this workpackage
and providing a platform for key players in both sectors to elaborate
on case studies and on sharing experiences and developing synergies
– to be organised by Professor
Patrick Corbett and Dr Olivier
Dubrule with support from ICIT staff.
[Output: Published conference proceedings]
