Business Development Officers from the University of Aberdeen are using this year’s Offshore Europe Exhibition to consolidate their reputation as research and consultancy experts to industry and to build new links with businesses.
From major research on the secrets of the deepest oceans to the latest teaching on global economics, the University of Aberdeen is at the centre of research and innovation in Europe's Energy capital.
The University has a long-established reputation as a centre of excellence in fields such as petroleum economics, engineering, industrial health and safety management, petroleum geology, deep sea and environmental monitoring, law and business management.
The Exhibition provides academics with yet another opportunity to meet with industry specialists and to explain how they can provide solutions to their business needs.
Our leading industry specialists will be on-hand at the University's stand, throughout this week to share their expertise, provide an insight into the latest developments and to explain how they can provide solutions to boost the sustainability and competitiveness of the energy sector.
The University has exhibited at the Offshore Europe Exhibition every year since 1994 and is exhibiting at this year’s event as partner organisation to Aberdeen City Council, and Aberdeenshire Council. This relationship builds on the synergy being developed through the City’s Energy Futures programme, and other joint initiatives being pursued by the University with both Councils. The University’s efforts to boost technology transfer into the economy of the North-East of Scotland complements the economic initiatives in both Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire.
Professor Dominic Houlihan, Vice Principal for Research and Commercialisation, said: "Our aim at this year's Exhibition is to connect with businesses who can benefit from our research excellence and to highlight that this can be delivered in a variety of ways. From contract research to consultancy, licensing and company formations, the University has a team of commercialisation experts who can assist companies to find a solution.
"The oil industry has called upon the University as a centre of research excellence since the early days of exploration in the hostile environment of the North Sea. It is, however, now at the centre of the push to make Aberdeen a world centre for renewable energy and is one of the founding members of the Aberdeen Renewables Energy Group (AREG).”
Professor Paul Mitchell, Director of the College’s Institute for Energy Technologies, is also one of the Directors of AREG, which promotes Aberdeen as a global energy capital and seeks to build on the extensive knowledge base that the City possesses from its work on oil and gas. Professor Mitchell is also directing research activity within the College of Physical Sciences on the renewable energy agenda - which the University will also be highlighting at this year’s conference, along with oil and gas, petroleum geology, as well as decommissioning.
Professor Mitchell said: “The University of Aberdeen has had a good relationship with the oil and gas industry since the North Sea first took off. We are embedded in the community so that incoming companies know about us very quickly. Most already know of our reputation.”
OE2005 provides the University with yet another excellent opportunity to showcase its research, expertise and facilities to meet with industry specialists and to build relationships and collaborations to offer research solutions to business needs.
To find out more, visit: www.abdn.ac.uk/oilgas or why not visit our team of experts who will be on hand during Offshore Europe at stand 215.