Three years after going it alone to run a new oil business in Nigeria, two north-east businessmen are now sitting on a field they think could produce 50,000 barrels a day in four years.
Green Ocean Energy is an SME hopeful. Three or so years ago, it developed a free-floating wave device called Ocean Treader but decided that a faster way to market might be to design and build a cousin, Wave Treader, that would clamp on to the substructure of an offshore wind turbine and exploit energy in a commercial symbiotic relationship.
TAKE two Irish brothers - one super-fit, the other not - chuck in a bike and an ancient steam road engine and see if they can get both vehicles from John O'Groats to Land's End in seven days.
