In a press release posted on its web site not too long ago, the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) introduced Liz Ditchburn as its new Chair.
The brand new Chair will head the NSTA board, which is accountable for regulating and influencing the UK’s oil, gasoline, offshore hydrogen, and carbon storage industries, the NSTA stated within the assertion, which highlighted that Ditchburn will begin her position on October 22. Ditchburn will take over from Tim Eggar.
“Liz is an skilled public coverage chief who’s presently on the board of the Internet Zero Expertise Centre in Aberdeen, the place she can also be the Audit Committee Chair,” the NSTA stated in its assertion.
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“She has labored at a senior stage for each the Scottish and UK governments. Most not too long ago, she was Director Common for Economic system for the Scottish Authorities, main on all features of the financial system and the drive in direction of internet zero in Scotland,” it added.
“Beforehand, she was Coverage Director on the Division for Worldwide Growth (now a part of FCDO),” it continued.
Within the NSTA assertion, Ditchburn stated, “the NSTA is engaged in one of the necessary transitions within the UK as all of us come to phrases with what a internet zero world requires”.
“The prize if we get this transition proper is big however the stakes for communities and people if we don’t are excessive,” Ditchburn added.
NSTA Chief Government Stuart Payne stated within the assertion, “now we have stated farewell to Tim who has led the board for the previous 5 years and has been a robust chief, advisor and supporter to each Andy Samuel, my predecessor, and myself”.
“I’m delighted that Liz has been appointed. She brings together with her not solely a wealth of expertise working in authorities but additionally a real pleasure and curiosity in our work,” Payne added.
Rigzone has contacted business physique Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) for touch upon the NSTA’s assertion. On the time of writing, OEUK has not but responded to Rigzone’s request with a remark.
An announcement posted on the UK authorities’s web site on March 6, 2019, introduced that the federal government had appointed Eggar as the brand new Chair of the Oil and Gasoline Authority (OGA), which was the earlier identify for the NSTA.
“Mr Eggar will take up his place on 11 March, 2019, changing Frances Morris-Jones, who will full her time period as interim Chair on the finish of March,” that assertion famous.
“Previous to taking up this position, Tim Eggar was a extremely skilled non-executive Chair and Board Director, together with within the oil and gasoline sector and the broader vitality sector. He was a authorities minister for 11 years, and Vitality Minister between 1992 and 1996,” it added.
In a press release posted on its website on March 21, 2022, the OGA stated it had modified its identify to the NSTA “to mirror its evolving position within the vitality transition”.
“In 2021, the OGA revised our technique to put internet zero on the coronary heart of our work alongside the necessary position of stewarding manufacturing,” the group stated in that assertion.
“In March final 12 months the North Sea Transition Deal between authorities and business set out an bold program for this path and the essential position that the UK’s oil and gasoline business ought to play,” it added.
“The brand new identify embraces this new context and our increasing position in vitality transition, together with because the carbon storage license and allowing authority, monitoring of emissions, assessing a internet zero check for brand new developments, and stewarding home manufacturing,” it continued.
In a press release posted on its website in July 2022, the NSTA introduced that it had appointed Payne as its new Chief Government. Payne succeeded Andy Samuel.
A transcript of a speech Payne delivered throughout OEUK’s latest annual convention in Aberdeen said that the subsequent chapter of the North Sea might be its greatest chapter.
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