Oil and gas expertise helps drive the wind of energy change

Oil and gas expertise helps drive the wind of energy change

When Crown Estate Scotland announced the outcome of its application process for ScotWind Leasing in January, it marked the first Scottish offshore wind leasing round in over a decade. It also demonstrated one of many ways our industry is actively focused on reducing its carbon footprint.

Several oil and gas players participated in winning bids on the round, showing how we are harnessing our transferable energy expertise to play a central role in the drive to deliver net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in the UK and by 2045 in Scotland.

We’ve seen some of our OGUK member companies including BP, Shell, TotalEnergies and Ocean Winds become lead applicants in the round, representing almost 50% of the leases awarded. They have partnered up with renewable energy companies to lease areas of the seabed around Scotland for offshore wind farm developments to generate many gigawatts of new, clean energy.