Offshore staff

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands – Four organizations working around the southern North Sea will enter a co-operation agreement later this month at the Offshore Energy 2018 Exhibition and Conference in Amsterdam.

Ymuiden Offshore Ports AYOP, East of England Energy Group EEEGR, North Sea Energy Gateway Den Helder NSEG, and Team Humber Marine Alliance will sign a memorandum of understanding on a coordinated response to future developments in the southern North Sea, known as the Southern North Sea Energy Alliance (SNSEA)

Among the trends they have identified area:

• As existing gas reserves from fields in the region start to become depleted, there will be a progressive reduction in exploration activity.
• Legacy wells will be plugged, and offshore platforms and pipelines decommissioned or potentially reused for other purposes such as manufacture of hydrogen or accommodation facilities for use with offshore wind farms.
• More offshore wind farms will be developed, installed, constructed and maintained, with a growing demand for skilled employees in maintenance and operations.
• The southern North Sea could be developed as an innovative ‘Energy Garden’ of Western Europe, serving as a laboratory for late field life and decommissioning, carbon capture and storage, gas to wire and power to gas technologies, wave and tidal, energy transmission and storage, and hydrogen.
• ‘Smart flight’ connections across the southern North Sea to increase and optimize transport and logistics of cargo, goods and personnel, to the benefit of the regions and established companies.

The MOU will serve as a framework for closer working relations on promoting the southern North Sea regions as an offshore and marine energy hub and to foster joint projects between the parties.

Members of the four parties include commercial and not-for-profit companies in the supply chain, educational institutions, research institutes and organizations and governmental bodies.

10/18/2018