A University of Aberdeen podcast, in this episode of ‘Into the Headlines’ Laura talks to Alex Kemp, Professor of Petroleum Economics and Director of the University’s Aberdeen Centre for Research in Energy Economics and Finance; Dr Alf Martinez-Felipe, Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the School of Engineering; Dr Rachel Brackenridge, Lecturer at the School of Geosciences; and Professor John Underhill, director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Transition, to find out what impact the past 50 years of North Sea exploration have had – and what the next 50 might hold.

 

Explored in this episode: 

·         North Sea oil’s impact on the Aberdeen economy

·         Research into hydrogen and carbon capture

·         The workforce of the future

 

Mentioned in this episode: 

·         Initiative: Centre for Energy Transition

·         Initiative: Just Transition Lab

·         Person: Ian Wood

·         Area: Forties Field

·         Resource: Zechstein salts

·         Initiative: ACORN Project

·         Term: Energy quadrilemma

·         Term: Net Zero

·         Initiative: NESA

·         Event: Offshore Europe

·         Event: COP

·         Course: MSc Energy Transition Systems and Technologies

·         Course: MSc Sustainable Energy Geoscience

 

This podcast reflects the views and opinions of contributors, not necessarily the institutional position of the University of Aberdeen.