Aberdeen-based Wood Group has renewed its sponsorship of the Chair of Arctic and Harsh Environment Engineering at Memorial University of Newfoundland for a second five-year term, from 2014 to 2019.
The research chair in the faculty of engineering and applied science will benefit both undergraduate and post-graduate engineering students.
“With the Arctic and cold regions a strategically important and challenging area of future industry development, Wood Group’s objective is to develop enabling technology and environmentally robust solutions for offshore oil & gas developments in these regions,” a spokesman said.
Wood Group is investing more than £300,000 to sponsor the chair over the next five-year period. Over the past five years, Wood Group’s similar investment has been leveraged by government and other funding agencies to enable additional research to be performed through the chair programme.
“We are very pleased to extend Wood Group’s investment in Arctic and harsh environment engineering technology, and to continue to support research delivered from Newfoundland and Labrador,” said Mike Straughen, group director of HSSE and executive sponsor of the programme.
“The new chair at Memorial University of Newfoundland will continue the excellent work of Dr Shawn Kenny, the outgoing chair.”
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