The report goes on to warn that the offshore engineering skills and capacity required to meet the demand for decommissioning will also be in demand from the renewable energy sector, and that new yards will be required.
The offshore and engineering business builds floating units, fixed platforms, pipelines facilities and offshore installations.
Goudey, the director of the MIT Sea Grant's Offshore Aquaculture Engineering Center, has devised a system by which giant spherical cages of fish would drift underwater in circular ocean currents, or gyres.
For example, it thinks that the oil and gas companies in Aberdeen could sell a lot more of their offshore-engineering products and services if they shared more information and tackled common technological problems together.
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The shipyard said it would focus on "an expansion of its technical consultancy services, which encompass the marine, offshore and structural engineering sectors".
Stephen Ball, chief executive officer of Lockheed Martin UK, owner of UK Seabed Resources, says the engineering experience of offshore oil and gas operations and the trend to rising mineral prices have now combined to make seabed mining feasible.
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There is engineering expertise, notably in Aberdeen, where the offshore oil industry has been installing complex machinery in rough seas for decades.
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Chief Engineer Anthony Gervasio and Qualified Member of the Engineering Department (QMED) Louis Longlois, crewmembers of the offshore supply vessel Damon B.
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In addition to drilling services, Transocean also provides provides well and logistics services through its integrated services division and also turnkey drilling solutions, planning, engineering and management services and competes with companies like Noble Corp and Diamond Offshore Drilling.
Subsea 7 said engineering and project management work would start immediately from its Aberdeen office, with offshore activities scheduled to commence in 2014.
The European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) project is a joint venture by utility company Vattenfall, engineering firm Technip and Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (Areg).
There is more hope for offshore wind, which is technically trickier, since North Sea oil has left a legacy of marine-engineering expertise in Britain.
Under the deal, Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) will continue to provide engineering, procurement, construction and services to Total's Alwyn, Dunbar, Elgin and Franklin offshore platforms and the St Fergus onshore gas plant.
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