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OSLO, Norway There are sufficient oil field discoveries with a breakeven oil price of below $60 Brent to meet global demand growth until around 2027, according to consultant Rystad Energy.

Beyond that point, however, additional volumes will be needed from yet-to-be discovered fields to satisfy total liquids demand.

That means global exploration efforts must continue, while at the same time, operators will need to work on their remaining but unsanctioned commercial discoveries over the coming years.

Only fields with breakeven prices below $60 Brent are likely to be commercial through 2030 or toward 2040, claimed Audun Martinsen, head of oilfield services research at Rystad.

If the global E&P industry were to fail to discover sufficient resources at such breakeven prices, global demand would need to be satisfied by utilizing otherwise uncommercial fields, or transition more quickly to a different power mix.

This year, according to the consultants estimate, around $200 billion has been approved for new oil and gas projects, and the sum looks set to climb to $225 billion next year, mainly driven by gas projects.

Offshore project sanctioning is set to exceed $100 billion in 2020.

However, while most of the offshore projects sanctioned this year had breakeven prices of less than $40/bbl, there could be a breakeven risk between 2020 and 2023. This is because close to 7% of the projects identified may incur a breakeven above $60/bbl.

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Sometimes, the medical profession and governments are on the same page. Examples are public health initiatives like immunisation programs or bowel cancer and cervical screening programs, when medical expertise informs policy.

This week we sadly saw the opposite, an ugly clash between medical ethics and political expedience.

On one side, there were 13 medical colleges, the Australian Medical Association and thousands of doctors who were arguing passionately to keep the medevac process in place.

On the other side, a government hell-bent on repealing a piece of legislation that gave doctors the ability to carry out our professional oath to do no harm, and to put the patients needs at the forefront of decisions about medical care.

When I heard about the repeal of the medevac legislation, I felt a mixture of emotions, but mainly a profound sense of sadness. This repeal signals a return to the governments unambiguously cruel and inhumane policy in the treatment of a small cohort of people seeking asylum. These are among the most vulnerable people on the planet.

The decision to repeal medevac is an absolute violation of Australias obligations under international law to provide these refugees with safe asylum and medical care. It also strikes at the heart of our medical training and ethical principles.

Before medevac, medical treatment of refugees in offshore detention was often delayed until conditions were life threatening and even then, human rights lawyers were often forced to fight for their transfer in the courts. Before medevac, 12 people died in offshore detention.

Usually cloaked in secrecy, the dire situation on Nauru and Manus Island began to emerge in late 2018. Brave whistleblowers, risking a jail sentence for speaking out, told us of the intolerable conditions in Australian offshore refugee facilities.

So now we go back to politicians and bureaucrats deciding who lives and who dies

When the medevac legislation was passed, the government made no apparent attempt to set up a process to honour the new law. It was left to a group of doctors who came to be known as the Merg (Medical Evacuation Response Group) to set up an urgent triaging and assessment system. It was essential that this process was to be a robust and as credible as possible. Many of these doctors were involved in the Senate inquiry into the repeal bill. Of the 84 submissions, 82 argued against the repeal. There is a reason the medical profession was united in support of medevac. It fulfilled one of the most basic of medical ethics to provide medical care based on need and without discrimination.

After all, one of our responsibilities as doctors is to advocate for the health and wellbeing not only of our own individual patients, but for groups and communities without discrimination.

I have had messages from doctors around the country who are aware of the state of health of the refugees who have been transferred to Australia, and of many of those who remain in offshore detention who fear what will happen as we return to business as usual.

Secrecy surrounded conditions on Nauru and Manus Island. Secrecy was demanded of health professionals working in the detention camps.

The fact that the Senate was forced to vote on a secret back-room deal a deal which the Coalition denied even existed with no information as to what that deal was and with one person making that deal in isolation from experts and then casting the key vote is a cynical desertion of our democratic principles.

There was no secret that Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton did not want the medevac legislation.

When it was passed, the government waited 14 days to make it officially law.

They then made absolutely no move to set up a process for assessment of cases requiring transfer.

This week the government took only five hours to make the visit to the governor general to end medevac. They also ended any independent medical oversight of medical transfers from offshore detention with the demise of the Ihap (Independent Health Assessment Panel).

So now we go back to politicians and bureaucrats deciding who lives and who dies, who is transferred for crucial medical treatment and when.

Through this process I have seen the best and the worst of political decision-making affecting the provision of healthcare.

Any MP or senator who voted to repeal this legislation will have to live with the consequences of that vote on their conscience forever.

In contrast, we have seen the wonderful refugee advocates, lawyers, and doctors who have selflessly given their time for these medevac transfers to happen, and for those who took to the streets in support of the people who are still held in Papua New Guinea or on Nauru. I thank them for their hard work, their compassion and for fighting against the governments indefensible decision to repeal this legislation.

To those who remain in Papua New Guinea and Nauru, please know this. There are many, many Australians of good heart who understand your plight and will continue to fight on your behalf not only for your medical care, but for a future for you in freedom and safety.

This is not over.

Kerryn Phelps is a medical professional and former independent MP for Wentworth

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For its adherents, the benefits of offshore wind are self-evident: abundant, clean, emission-free power.

But for supporters of a new development off the Eastern seaboard billed as the first utility-scale offshore wind project in the US progress to make their vision a reality has been frustratingly unforthcoming.

In August, it was announced that Vineyard Wind which had been scheduled to start construction off the coast of Massachusetts later this year had been put on hold, pending a federal environmental review supported by the Interior Department.

The agencys decision means Vineyard Winds original aim to construct 84 giant turbines, 14 miles off the states coast, able to generate enough electricity to power 400,000 homes by 2022 now hangs in the balance.

The reason behind the Interior Departments slow-walk is due to concerns around the projects impact on the local fishing industry. The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) claims the windfarms design, as it stands, would encroach on species and commercial fishing operations in the Atlantic waters.

Thus, the NMFS has informed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the agency responsible for offshore wind projects, that it wont sign off on the project until it is satisfied suitable changes have been incorporated.

Having already secured contracts with Massachusetts electric utilities, the companies behind Vineyard Wind Spanish-owned Avangrid Inc and Denmarks Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners are unamused by this interagency scrimmage. The developer claims the wait for an environmental permit would jeopardise the projects timeline.

It is not the first time a major offshore wind project off the Massachusetts shoreline has been met with the thumbs down. Vineyard Wind is preceded by Cape Wind, which, back in 2001, promised to be the countrys first offshore wind farm, situated in Nantucket Sounds, some five miles off the coast.

However, a 16-year-long culmination of financial setbacks and political and personal opposition local, well-heeled residents, including industrialist Bill Koch and Senator Edward Kennedy, were amongst its loudest critics saw the project finally give up the ghost in 2017.

Its easy to draw parallels between Vineyard Wind and Cape Wind. That said, appetite for offshore wind development in the US is much greater now than it was at the start of the millennium. The Interior Department is said to be considering auctioning more offshore wind leases to New York and California, while New Jersey has set 1200MW solicitations for next year and 2022.

Such enthusiasm, though, is yet to translate into the construction of any tangible large-scale offshore wind infrastructure. In contrast to the boom of inland turbines in recent years the US has the worlds second largest onshore wind power capacity behind China there is only one small offshore wind farm in the country, situated near Block Island, Rhode Island. It went online in 2016.

However, offshore wind experts believe it is only a matter of time before the industry will begin to catch up.

Currently, eight states, from Maine to Virginia, have committed to their utilities procuring 22.5GW of offshore wind from now through to 2035, says Stephanie McClellan, a researcher and director of the Special Initiative on Offshore Wind at the University of Delaware.

That is equivalent to the entire global installed capacity at the end of 2018, and is just the tip of the iceberg. As the cost of offshore wind continues to fall and the US supply chain matures, the industry is set for continued market growth well beyond initial state policy commitments.

For McClellan, once the first utility-scale projects see the light of day, others will follow in quick succession which she likens to a blast cap. Liz Burdock, president of the Business Network for Offshore Wind also believes that the US offshore wind energy market is expanding every day, but there are caveats for growth.

In order to keep the industrys momentum, we need to focus on certain key issues and policies, she says. That means expanded training programmes to build the skilled labour force we will need, as well as greater investments in ports to support both installation and offshore wind component manufacturing.

There also needs to be increased outreach with science-based research to the commercial fishing industry, so that offshore wind may proceed smoothly without the added cost and time delays from lawsuits.

Such ardour for offshore wind does not extend to the White House. President Trump was vocal in his criticism of the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre in Aberdeen Bay situated close to one of his golf courses which he accused of creating an eyesore and denting tourism.

Offshore wind also runs counter to the Presidents attempt to revive fossil fuels in the US a theme on which he campaigned during the 2016 election. However, according to Timothy Fox, a vice president with the Washington research firm ClearView Energy Partners, this hasnt necessarily dampened wind deployment targets at state level.

The economics of offshore wind compared to other renewable resources in the US suggest its domestic deployment may remain state-policy driven, he says. We also dont think the Trump Administration opposes offshore wind, but we think it is prioritising its efforts toward other resources.

We project East Coast states to deploy between 5,000 8,000MW of offshore wind by 2025, representing a significant uptick from the current deployment of 30MW.

Nonetheless, Fox is circumspect when it comes to certain areas. He believes the BOEMs decision to delay its permit for Vineyard Wind has raised uncertainty and risk for project developers and their investors. He also believes comparisons between the US and Europe which now has a total installed offshore wind capacity of over 18,000MW to be overly ambitious.

European nations have experience and established supply chains for offshore wind, he says. They are also deploying the resource at a faster clip than the US. Offshore wind deployment here is unlikely to rival Europe soon.

Burdock is more optimistic. In her eyes, US demand for offshore wind-generated electricity is growing on both coasts and could soon surpass that of Europe.

We see almost limitless opportunity for the US offshore wind industry, she says. Offshore wind is now a global industry, and it is clear that the US pipeline of projects with secure off-take agreements is equivalent to all that Europe has installed over the past 30 years.

We believe that the US experience in offshore oil drilling, onshore wind, big data and artificial intelligence will allow the offshore wind industry to make giant steps forward once it starts getting steel in the water here.

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(Reuters) - Chinas telecoms giant Huawei has been encouraging its suppliers to violate U.S. law by telling them to move operations offshore in a bid to avoid U.S. sanctions, Commerce Department Secretary Wilbur Ross told Reuters on Tuesday.

FILE PHOTO: An attendee wears a badge strip with the logo of Huawei at the World 5G Exhibition in Beijing, China November 22, 2019. REUTERS/Jason Lee/File Photo

In May, the U.S. government placed Huawei Technologies Co Ltd on a trade blacklist known as the entity list, over national security concerns, forcing some suppliers to apply for special licenses to sell equipment to the company.

But the U.S. government has become frustrated by the limitations of the blacklisting to keep overseas suppliers from selling to the company, the worlds largest telecoms equipment supplier, Reuters reported last week.

On Tuesday, Ross said in an interview that those frustrations extended to a push from Huawei to move its supply chain overseas.

Huawei has been openly advocating companies to move their production offshore to get around the fact that we put Huawei on the list, Ross said. Anybody who does move the product out specifically to avoid the sanction... thats a violation of U.S. law. So here you have Huawei encouraging American suppliers to violate the law, he added.

Huawei spokesman Rob Manfredo declined to comment.

Reuters reported last week that the U.S. government may expand its power to stop more foreign shipments of products with U.S. technology to Huawei, by broadening the reach of two key rules to capture more products.

One of those regulations, known as the De minimis Rule, dictates how much U.S. content in a foreign-made product gives the U.S. government authority to block an export. Currently the de minimis threshold for China is set at 25%, meaning that if American content constitutes more than a quarter of the value of the item, U.S. rules apply to its export to China.

Ross declined to say whether such rule changes were imminent. However, he said Huaweis advocacy of suppliers moving offshore has flagged an issue weve been starting to deal with, that is, whether the 25% threshold is right for China.

Whether 25% is forever and all time the right ratio, thats something to be resolved, Ross said, adding that the agency was always considering such moves.

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Interior Secretary David Bernhardt was condemned Monday for a proposed policy shift on offshore drilling panned as a "sweetheart giveaway" for a former client.

The new extraction-encouraging proposal was announced last month in a report(pdf) by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), two agencies within the Interior Department and occurred, according to transparency group Western Values Project, "under the cloud of impeachment."

"Since day one, Secretary Bernhardt has operated as though Interior was his own personal lobby shop by doling out favors for his former clients with impunity. This offshore royalty rate reduction deal is short selling our shared resources and ripping off taxpayers." Jayson O'Neill, Western Values Project.

Bernhardt's announcement followed longstandingfearsthat the former lobbyist would use his position in the federal government to serve the interests of the fossil fuel lobby above those of the American people and public lands. The recommendations laid out in the report pertain to royalties for offshore leasing and drilling.

"Federal officials," as Louisiana's Houma Todayreported, "are offering oil and gas companies a discount on the fees they pay the government to drill in the Gulf of Mexico's shallow waters."

If enacted, the policy to "ensure maximum resource recovery" would benefit the oil and gas industry National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA), on whose behalf Bernhardt previously lobbied, said Western Values Project.

Also noteworthy, said the advocacy group, is that the report was co-authored by BSEE Director Scott Angelle, who also has ties to the fossil fuel industry. Western Values Project said that, during the government shutdown, Angellewho has NOIA's stamp of approval for his current positiongreen-lit 53 permits for offshore drilling for companies that sit on the board of directors for NOIA.

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"Since day one, Secretary Bernhardt has operated as though Interior was his own personal lobby shop by doling out favors for his former clients with impunity. This offshore royalty rate reduction deal is short selling our shared resources and ripping off taxpayers," said Jayson O'Neill, deputy director of Western Values Project.

"With Trump's own corruption dominating headlines," he continued, "Bernhardt probably thought this sweetheart giveaway to his former oil and gas client would slip by unnoticed."

Oil giants like Chevron and Shell are already taking advantage of a loophole in federal law to avoid paying at least $18 billion in royalties on oil and gas drilled in the Gulf since 1996, the New York Times reported in October, citing a report from the Government Accountability Office.

The possible policy shift sparked environmental worries from New Orleans-based advocacy group Healthy Gulf, whichcalled the proposal "a recipe for disaster" in a tweet last month.

"This administration wants to lease areas of the Gulf for 'high-risk, small-upside opportunities' to smaller oil companies who don't have the resources to handle spills," the group said. "This proposal is as illogical as it is dangerous."

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This fall, Dominion surprised industry experts when it announced plans to build a massive wind farm off Virginias coast.

The company has no experience with offshore wind, and critics say customers could be stuck with big bills if the company is not required to compete for the right to build.

Dominion says its determined to cut carbon emissions 55% in the next decade. That means burning less gas and coal while boosting production of clean power.

Energy blogger Ivy Main says thats why the company has now decided to tap this states considerable potential for wind power.

They are planning to build out the entire Virginia wind energy area 27 miles off of Virginia Beach.

Dominions first estimate of cost is $7.8 billion, but thats based on using resources from Europe according to spokesman Jeremy Slayton.

That would include things like manufacturing of the turbines, because right now the turbines themselves are manufactured in Europe and then have to be transported by boat over to the United States.

The company says costs will come down as the United States gears up to supply a new industry off American shores. And state government is likely to provide support.

The economic development and the job prospects are terrific for Virginia, says Main.

But theres something else that could keep costs down competitive bidding. At the University of Virginia, Professor Bill Shobe studies the economics of energy. He says about a hundred countries have already shown how powerful that approach can be.

They set a renewables target, and then they announced they were going to hold an auction, and what interested firms would do is bid a price for an amount of renewable power that they would agree to provide, and the results of those auctions have been astonishing, he explains.

Using this model for production of solar power helped lower costs by 62% over a four-year period, and Main says costs to produce offshore wind power dropped 32% in a single year. Shobe says its the only way consumers will know theyre getting the best price, and it might not keep Dominion from building the wind farm.

If Dominion wants to bid to build the turbines themselves, by all means. If they are really the low cost provider, then theyll win the bids.

If Dominion moves forward, Main hopes it will partner with another, more experienced firm. Its already working with the worlds largest wind energy supplier a Danish company called Orsted on a demonstration project involving two turbines, but the big wind farm would involve 220 of them.

"I had been given a heads up early that they had not consulted with Orsted before they made the announcement that they were going forward with the big farm," she recalls. "Then another developer told me that he had checked with them as to whether they might want another partner, and theyd said no that they were going to do it themselves, and then Dominion held its quarterly earnings call and confirmed there that it planned to develop, own and operate the wind farm by itself.

Since she published her concerns, Dominion has said its undecided on the issue of whether to fly solo.

We are evaluating how best to proceed with our commercial offshore wind project," says Dominion spokesman Slayton. "No specific decisions have been made regarding partners or suppliers or those sorts of things.

The company says the wind farm will come online in three stages in 2024, 25 and 26. Noting many other states plan wind farms in that same time frame, Main says federal regulators could be overwhelmed unable to grant permits quickly enough to keep Dominion on schedule.

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Dr. Alan Lowdon has been named Director of Strategic Development for the National Offshore Wind Institute at Bristol Community College.

Lowdon comes to Bristol with more than 20 years of experience in the offshore wind industry. As Director of Strategic Development for the National Offshore Wind Institute at Bristol Community College, he will formulate and implement the strategic plans for the creation of a Global Wind Organization accredited offshore wind training center as the centerpiece of the National Offshore Wind Institute.

He earned his bachelors degree in applied mathematics at the Universities of Teesside and Aston in England; his master of science in engineering mathematics from Newcastle University in Newcastle upon Tyne, England; his Doctor of Philosophy in engineering mathematics from Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, England; as well as his master of business administration from the University of Durham, United Kingdom. Lowdon was honored from B.S. to Ph.D. as a Rolls Royce Industrial Power-bursary recipient.

He is a cleantech professional with a strong emphasis on research, development and innovation. His technical specialization in fluid dynamics has provided him with professional experience in the fields of power generation, gas, water, oil and renewable energy. As a result, he has had the privilege of working in progressive international organizations such as NEI/Rolls Royce, British Gas, Suez Lyonnaise, Shell, ITI Energy, Mott MacDonald, Technology Strategy Board and Jacobs.

Lowdonwas instrumental in Green Port Hull initiative in the United Kingdom where he served as Research, Development and Innovation Director for 3.5 years, helping to establish the Project Aura offshore wind initiative. He was previously Director of Technology and Innovation at the UKs National Renewable Energy Centre (NaREC) where he led joint initiatives with NREL and helped to secure in excess of $75M from UK Government and private partners to develop the worlds largest offshore wind test and demonstration asset base. He has also participated on the boards of a number of startups, including wind farm asset inspection company Invisotech. Alan also served as an advisor and interim CEO to the development of InnovateUK's Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult Centre (ORE Catapult), a key addition to the United Kingdoms offshore wind innovation sector.

His interests extend to guest lecturing and include serving as a visiting professor at the University of Durham, United Kingdom, and at the Newcastle University Business School in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Alan also chairs the Industry Advisory Board of Durham University Energy Institute, a body that includes membership from key offshore players such as Orsted, EdF Energy, ORE Catapult and Equinor. He is also a non-executive director at the Port of Blyth, UK which has seen a renaissance over the last 10 years around offshore energy, insights that Alan will bring to his role at Bristol Community College.

The United States offshore wind industry is emerging in the North Atlantic near the Massachusetts coastline, and Bristol Community College is leading the way in workforce development.

Bristols National Offshore Wind Institute (NOWI) offers basic and advanced safety and technical training programs to prepare workers for jobs in construction, deployment, operations and maintenance of offshore wind farms. Bristol and its training partners provide delegates a state-of-the-art training experience leading to the safety and technical competency certificates required for careers in offshore wind.

For more information about Dr. Alan Lowdon or the National Offshore Wind Institute at Bristol Community College, please visit http://www.bristolcc.edu/NOWI, or call 774.357.2998.

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Natural gas will begin flowing from Leviathan, Israels largest offshore natural gas field, within two weeks, with exports to Egypt and Jordan following shortly thereafter, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said Monday.

Binyamin Zomer, vice president for regional affairs at Texas-based Noble Energy, the lead partner in Leviathan, confirmed the news. Before the end of the year we will start supplying the domestic market, and in the weeks right after that we will export to Egypt and Jordan, he told the annual Israel Energy and Business Convention in Ramat Gan.

The Leviathan partners have signed multibillion-dollar export deals to Egypt and Jordan. Steinitz told the conference that despite opposition from environmentalists, there was no reason Israel shouldnt also be exporting gas to Europe.

Zomer said that because of Leviathans lifespan, all export options were under consideration, including delivery by undersea pipeline to Europe. As to concerns about air pollution from Leviathans rig, he said that it met the strictest standards and that gas would mean a net gain for the environment.

Im sure the public understands that the biggest impact of the Leviathan rig will be when you can close the coal stations in Hadera, he said, referring to generating plants of the Israel Electric Corporation.

Zomer said that with the development of the smaller Karish and Tanin gas fields by the Green energy company Energean, competition was ramping up in the industry. No one knows at what range prices will settle, he said. Its a function of supply and demand and were already seeing new prices.

The IEC is buying gas from the Tamar field at $6.30 per million British thermal units, but it has signed an agreement to buy from Leviathan at $4.80. Karish and Tanin have been signing deals at between $3.50 and $4.00

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The HMRC does not have the staff to investigate all the offshore tip-offs it gets, after being swamped with a staggering 5.7 million pieces of information about overseas bank accounts held by three million British citizens.

The information is coming from 100 countries under common reporting standards (CRS) agreed by the international Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The standards are designed to stop tax evasion, or avoidance, by making governments aware of overseas money held by their citizens.

However, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) does not have enough people to follow up on the information, according to the tax consultancy BDO, so is instead sending out a series of "nudge" letters to the people named asking them to send details of their financial affairs in an attempt to uncover incidents of tax evasion, The Times first reported.

HMRC has come under pressure to more actively investigate taxpayers with hidden offshore assets since the 2016 Panama Papers scandal. There is currently an open parliamentary inquiry into whether HMRC is sufficiently able to tackle tax evasion and avoidance.

The UK tax office made 540 requests to overseas authorities for information on UK taxpayers last year, an increase of 24% on the previous year, as it intensifies its crackdown on hidden offshore assets, says Pinsent Masons, the international law firm.

Pinsent Masons says that HMRC is increasing its investigations overseas into taxpayers it believes are hiding assets. Investigations can lead to penalties of up to 200% of the tax HMRC believes is owed.

UK investors in offshore funds are coming under increasing scrutiny by the tax authorities. HMRC believes there is a significant group of UK investors misreporting their income and gains from investments in offshore funds, and, as a consequence, their overall UK tax liability.

HMRC have begun to send out compliance letters to tenants of residential property that they believe is owned by an overseas company or trust (called a non-resident corporate landlord). The purpose of the letter is to enable HMRC to gather information to make sure that the landlord is paying the correct amount of tax.

HMRC's approach to hidden offshore assets is laid out in its No Safe Havens' strategy, which was launched in March this year. In this strategy document, HMRC says it will use criminal investigations to send a strong deterrent message to taxpayers.

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Wind industry specialist recruiter ERSG has secured a contract to be sole supplier of fabrication management personnel to two undisclosed offshore wind farms in Asia.

ERSG has also agreed terms with an unnamed company building floating wind foundations to supply contractors for the entire project lifecycle.

Project planners and turbine package managers have already been deployed, ERSG said.

The company said that will a global portfolio of candidates and a physical presence in Taiwan, it is well placed to provide both local and ex-patriate professionals to the projects in Asia.

ERSG chief executive Jim Ryan said: ERSG has a strong reputation for delivering highly skilled contractors in offshore wind for a number of years and our presence in the APAC region has enabled us to assist with the industry growth supplying both local and ex-pat candidates to our clients there.

We are in a strong position going forward in to 2020 when many of our existing and new clients will look to us for support and guidance.

ERSG announced it had opened an office in Taiwan in July.

The company said in June that it would be collaborating with Taiwan Offshore Windfarm Service Corporation on the provision of staff to the offshore wind sector on the Asian island.

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