SYNERGY BETWEEN OFFSHORE OIL, GAS AND WIND CAN MAKE UTILITIES CHEAPER, CONFERENCE HEARS
October 1st, 2012
BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
HALF the work needed to set up an offshore wind farm can easily be done by the offshore specialists of oil and gas companies, saving utilities money, a Brussels conference has been told. Andrew Donaldson, renewables director for the offshore projects and operations of Britain's Petrofac said: "It's building offshore structures, it's building jackets, it's installing the structure, so operating heavy-lift cranes, it's laying cables". He told this week's (Tues Oct 2) conference on research and development in offshore winds ...
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