Media Coverage
Source: Energy Voice
Media Coverage
By Gavin Watson
03.28.22
Last month, Crown Estate Scotland (CES) provided some long-awaited information about the new leasing round for Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) projects. It offered clarity on the proposed application process and indicative timelines for each phase, as well as an outline of how applications would be evaluated.
Though undoubtedly a step in the right direction, keen observers will have noticed several significant disconnects between the INTOG information from CES and the outcomes set by the UK Government in its North Sea Transition Deal (NSTD), which include supply decarbonisation, supply chain transformation and hydrogen production. If achieving these outcomes is critical to the energy transition of offshore oil and gas production in the UK, then the proposed selection criteria for INTOG must be re-oriented towards these goals.