An Aberdeenshire-born entrepreneur has announced a multimillion-dollar expansion of his flourishing Houston co-working industrial property business during a landmark transatlantic business event.
Whenever I come to the north-east of Scotland, I am struck by how much we owe to the ingenuity, industry and courage of those who extract oil and gas from the North Sea.
By Gordon McIntosh, director, Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (AREG)
In the wake of COP26 in November last year, the need for a skilled and well-trained workforce to deliver the transition to renewable energy has been recognised globally.
A global technology company that specialises in emergency response has seen a period of significant growth leading up to the launch of its latest SaaS product that has been designed to ensure energy companies can successfully manage any incident or crisis they are faced with.
A major new base to support offshore wind development puts Aberdeen at the forefront of the push from oil and gas to a renewable energy future, Nicola Sturgeon said.
Aberdeen-based STC Insiso has reported a “strong first year” in the wake of a 2021 merger, beating revenue targets and now looking to further expansion this year.
For the team at Shepherd and Wedderburn, Aberdeen, the north-east and the north of Scotland is the land of opportunity, so much so that the firm recently reaffirmed its commitment to the region by investing in a new office in the city.
Diversifying into renewables, as well as keeping a steady hand on oil and gas, is expected to bring “continued growth” in 2022 for energy services group First Tech.
Set in a prime location next to Aberdeen International Airport and the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR), ABZ is the north-east’s best connected business park.
Be it at your local pub, round at your mate’s or at Murrayfield itself, Scots up and down the country were celebrating the Six Nations rugby win over England on Saturday.
“You would like to think it was good planning,” joked Neil Gordon, chief executive of the Global Underwater Hub (GUH), “but I think it’s just fortunate that, at the moment, it looks as if everything has landed well for us.”
Positivity, partnership and people are the three main elements of a successful logistics business as it enters a new diverse energy market – that is according to Sarah Moore, the new CEO of Peterson Energy Logistics.
Energy giant BP has won approval to become a joint venture partner of Aberdeen City Council (ACC) to build Scotland’s first “scalable” green hydrogen production plant.
I’m a little bemused. Inevitably the ScotWind lease awards were going to trigger all sorts of claims about how the Scottish offshore wind supply chain will gain from this huge project, but nobody seems prepared to explain exactly how this will happen given that we don’t actually have a supply chain of any note particularly when it comes to the high value hardware.