With this month’s Subsea Expo exhibition and conference fast approaching, organisers have confirmed that a limited number of spaces remain available for the event’s opening International Welcome Breakfast.
Organised by Global Underwater Hub, the three-day showcase of the subsea sector and wider underwater industry takes place at P&J Live in Aberdeen from Tuesday, 18 until Thursday, 20 February. The opening day of the leading industry event will kick off with a business breakfast exploring market opportunities across multiple sectors, both domestically and overseas, with a focus on oil and gas and offshore renewables.
Chaired by Scottish Enterprise, the session will follow Subsea Expo’s overall theme for 2025, ‘Deep in Transition’. This reflects the need for energy production from traditional and new renewable offshore sources, and the resultant impact this has on the subsea and underwater supply chain, particularly as companies look to expand into new international markets.
Attendees will hear from four panellists who will each provide insight into regional markets or industry sectors, highlighting potential opportunities for underwater supply chain companies.
Anu Eslas, head of international business development with Ignitis Renewables, a Lithuanian-based green energy company, will discuss planned renewable energy projects in the Baltics, where there are ambitions to generate nearly 20GW of power from offshore wind by 2030.
Barry Macleod, managing director of Flotation Energy, which is focused on developing floating offshore wind projects and is part of Japan’s TEPCO Renewable Power, will examine the technology challenges the firm faced in bringing on stream the first commercial scale floating offshore wind project.
Delegates to Subsea Expo 2025 will hear about an underwater industry ‘Deep in Transition’
With expected changes to energy policy in the United States, Kurt Foreman, president and CEO of economic development agency Delaware Prosperity Partnership, will highlight routes to entering the US market through the American east coast state.
Petra Manuel, senior analyst and product manager at independent research and energy intelligence company Rystad Energy, will explore opportunities in the oil and gas and offshore wind sectors, and discuss how synergies between the two can be leveraged to support the energy transition.
Following the breakfast, Subsea Expo will officially get underway at 9.30am when the main exhibition arena opens, with the event’s conference programme commencing shortly afterwards. Free to attend, Subsea Expo brings together UK and overseas visitors to learn about the latest technologies and innovative products from across the underwater industry, which is worth around £9.2billion annually to the UK economy.
Neil Gordon, chief executive of Global Underwater Hub, which organises Subsea Expo, said: “Through the technology, skills and knowledge base developed in the North Sea, the UK subsea and wider underwater supply chain has been in demand globally for decades, which is reflected in the international appeal of Subsea Expo. Global Underwater Hub’s annual business survey reinforced the importance of exports to the UK supply chain, noting that 38% of the value of the underwater industry is as a result of overseas work.
“The international breakfast on the opening morning of Subsea Expo sets the scene for a packed and insightful programme over the event’s three days. The diverse line up of speakers at the breakfast will offer a flavour of where future opportunities lie in conventional and renewable offshore energy sources, and ways in which companies can best leverage some of them.”
The Subsea Expo International Welcome Breakfast takes place on Tuesday, 18 February, from 7am until 9.30am, at P&J Live in Aberdeen. Limited tickets are available and can be purchased via the Subsea Expo website at www.subseaexpo.com, where advance online registration for the whole event can be completed.