Energy Technology Partnership (ETP) services

Scotland’s offshore geology coupled with our existing oil and gas infrastructure provides us with an opportunity to store millions of tonnes of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide.  A chain of technologies has the potential to capture high levels of CO₂ created by burning fossil fuels for power generation and industrial processes and store it deep below ground.  World-class research into carbon capture and storage (CCS) is under way at ETP universities across Scotland.

Alongside over thirty years of oil and gas production Scotland has developed an internationally recognised, broad based oil and gas research community involving its universities, test centres and other institutions. As long term players Scottish research groups have developed strong relationships with a large number of global oil and gas operators, contractors and manufacturers and others in the supply chain, government departments and overseas research institutes and universities Consequently Scotland’s research capabilities are inevitably closely aligned with the various stages of development of any potential oil and gas resource.