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Exporting world-leading marine energy expertise

‘The biggest hook is the sheer level of experience we’ve got here in Orkney,’ says Eileen Linklater, reflecting on why the Scottish island community is the global epicentre of wave and tidal.

Eileen Linklater, Commercial Manager at EMEC, tells Energy Focus why the UK is the undisputed global leader in marine energy.

Tidal Power

US offshore wind spins into life

Back in 2001 when Cape Wind was proposed as America's first offshore wind project, the US offshore wind market barely existed.

Still in its infancy US offshore wind offers huge opportunities, as the country looks to draw on UK and European expertise to advance development, writes the EIC’s Amisha Patel.

View from the top: Tim Cornelius, CEO, Atlantis Resources

Tim Cornelius CEO Atlantis Resources

To start off, could you give our readers some background on the MeyGen project?

Energy Focus meets Tim Cornelius CEO of tidal power giant Atlantis Resources, the developer behind the groundbreaking MeyGen tidal array project being built in the Pentland Firth, Scotland.

Tim Cornelius

From the Chief Executive: how to create the next generation of energy workers?

Welcome back to a new and improved Energy Focus. As our regular readers will know, we’ve taken a brief pause to redesign our flagship industry magazine.

In this edition we explore possible alternative Brexit scenarios and the implications for the supply chain, as well as highlighting a pressing question facing the industry today: how to create the next generation of energy workers?

Stuart Broadley

Turkey pushes on with nuclear ambitions

To aid economic growth, reduce it heavy reliance on fossil fuels and cut back its reliance on Russian and Iranian gas for electricity, Turkey is looking at nuclear power to help diversify its energ

Energy Focus reviews Turkey’s progress in nuclear power development

Oil and gas suppliers get fit for nuclear

With the oil and gas downturn still restricting investment, engineering suppliers to the sector are increasingly looking for opportunities elsewhere.

Manufacturers with oil and gas experience can find new opportunities in nuclear, but must be ready to meet the sector's demands, says Andrew Storer of Nuclear AMRC

Oil and gas suppliers get fit for nuclear

Can UK business turn market scale into opportunity?

With a 90/10-percentage split of ownership between state and private investors (the latter through public private partnership) in India’s energy industry, clearly there is a lot of scope for market

India’s ‘power for all’ programme is accelerating but is the country the huge opportunity that it is presented to be, asks Kelly Butler from BEAMA.

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A natural fit for Brazil's energy system

Regardless of the current challenges to economic growth, Brazil has an emerging market for natural gas, especially for power generation.

Gabriel Cavados from Wärtsilä Brasil explains why gas to wire on-site power generation is the way forward for Brazil’s onshore gas producers.

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Oil & Gas Asia 2017: Gateway to South East Asia

On 11–13 July in Kuala Lumpur, Oil & Gas Asia (OGA) 2017 is expected to attract 23,000 delegates, many of whom will be representing Malaysia’s major operators and contractors.

Oil & Gas Asia provides a platform for companies to tap into the region's business opportunities.

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Reforms fuel new opportunities

Indonesia holds proven oil reserves of 3.7bn barrels and is in the top 20 of the world’s oil producers.

Dinar Indriana Khoiriah of Alefstrata sees opportunities abound for UK expertise as Indonesia seeks to increase upstream investment.

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