In a launch posted on its web site this week, business physique Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) introduced that it’s delivering a sequence of stay debates throughout the UK this spring and stated it’s inviting the general public “to hitch essential conversations about the way forward for the UK’s offshore power business”.
The debates are set to happen in Aberdeen, Falkirk, and Newcastle, the discharge revealed. OEUK stated they’ll characteristic a variety of voices, together with business leaders and the area people.
The debates are free to attend and are geared toward anybody fascinated with the way forward for the UK’s power provide, OEUK famous within the launch. The business physique went on to state that it’s encouraging individuals from all walks of life to attend and actively take part in discussions on the UK’s power future.
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“The UK’s offshore power sector performs an essential position in offering power to houses and companies,” OEUK acknowledged within the launch.
“With the UK authorities at present consulting on key power insurance policies, and home power manufacturing at document lows, these occasions supply a well timed alternative for native communities to be taught extra about offshore energies together with oil, gasoline, and renewables, ask questions, and have interaction in a clear dialogue about how the nation can obtain a safe, inexpensive, and sustainable power future,” it added.
“These debates supply a invaluable alternative to ask questions, hear numerous viewpoints, and have interaction instantly with these influencing the nation’s power panorama,” it continued.
Within the launch, OEUK Chief Govt David Whitehouse stated, “we’re internet hosting these occasions to open up the dialog on power manufacturing”.
“Whether or not you’re employed within the offshore power sector or not, these debates are an opportunity for everybody to have their say on what the UK’s power future ought to appear like,” he added.
“We need to hear from native communities, companies, and employees who can be affected by these choices,” he went on to state.
OEUK highlighted within the launch that registration for tickets is now open via a poll system, including that it will likely be deciding on attendees “to make sure a broad vary of views”.
Safety Convention
In a separate launch posted on its website final week, OEUK revealed that it’s going to maintain a “safety and resilience convention” in Aberdeen on the finish of the month.
“Offshore Energies UK is taking a lead in sharing data to guard important UK offshore power producers from deliberate harm to their operations,” OEUK stated on this launch.
“Specialists from business, protection coverage, the safety providers, and academia will handle a excessive stage safety and resilience convention being held on the middle of the UK’s offshore power business within the Union Kirk, Aberdeen, Scotland on thirtieth April 2025,” it added.
“That is the primary offshore power occasion of its sort within the UK to debate how to reply to dangers to subsea infrastructure and shield towards harm and is being held forward of publication of the federal government’s Strategic Protection Evaluation which is anticipated to debate the significance of defending underwater networks,” it went on to state.
OEUK famous on this launch that the convention is a part of OEUK’s remit on behalf of its membership of greater than 400 organizations to advertise home power safety and a homegrown power future to scale back reliance on imports.
The business physique added that delegates will achieve an understanding of the vary of safety threats and vulnerabilities confronted by the power business. It went on to state that they’ll learn to construct resilience of their organizations from the varied vary of safety specialists in attendance and be given a chance to community with key business stakeholders.
“Offshore Energies UK takes very significantly its duties to observe the worldwide power panorama and keep forward of safety threats,” Mark Wilson, OEUK’s director of well being, security, setting, and operations, and the chief of the convention, stated within the launch.
“In an more and more unsure world it’s important that the UK maintains its management on this essential space,” he added.
OEUK’s 2025 Enterprise Outlook report exhibits that, below the best enterprise situations, half of the 13-15 billion barrels of oil and gasoline the UK is projected to wish by 2050 might be produced at residence, a launch despatched to Rigzone by the OEUK crew final month acknowledged.
OEUK highlighted in that launch that the publication of its Enterprise Outlook coincides with authorities consultations with business on the way forward for the North Sea and the oil and gasoline fiscal regime.
“Within the coming months interlinked choices are additionally anticipated on the UK authorities’s Complete Spending Evaluation and new Industrial Technique in addition to up to date environmental tips for oil and gasoline initiatives,” OEUK identified within the launch.
OEUK describes itself on its website as “the main commerce affiliation for the UK offshore power business” and a “not for revenue membership group with a historical past stretching again 5 a long time”.
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