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Energising Stats DRAFT
Energising Stats DRAFT
Aberdeen is known for oil & gas and it is a global energy city, known as the
Energy Capital of Europe.
As an energy city, Aberdeen sits alongside Calgary, Abu Dhabi and Stavanger
and competes not with other UK cities but other energy cities including
Houston, Perth and Kuala Lumpur.
Outside Houston, Aberdeen has the biggest collection of international oil and
gas companies
Meanwhile, Westhill in Aberdeenshire is known as the Global Subsea Centre
of Excellence. Both locations are just six miles apart.
The city has built up 50 years of expertise in oil & gas and subsea
engineering.
Consequently, skills developed and services based in Aberdeen are in
demand all over the world and the city attracts industry visitors from around
the globe.
According to the Wood Review, there is potential for a further 15-24 billion
barrels of oil equivalent still to be extracted. It is forecast that production will
continue to 2050.
SDIs Survey of International Activity in the Oil and Gas Sector 2013/2014 found:
Oil & Gas UKs Activity Survey has data for UKCS performance in 2014:
Produced 1.42 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd), the best yearon-year performance in 15 years, slowing production decline.
Discovered around 50 million boe of potentially commercial reserves,
significantly lower than the average of over 250 million boe per year over the
last ten years.
Drilled 126 development wells (including sidetracks), slightly higher than the
120 in 2013.
Sanctioned the development of 8 new fields and 28 brownfield opportunities
http://www.oilandgasuk.co.uk/cmsfiles/modules/publications/pdfs/EC044.pdf
Future outlooks
In 2014, Aberdeen rose to 11th position in the British Meetings and Events
Industry Survey of the best UK destinations for business tourism and events.
The city hosts numerous high profile conferences, the largest being the
biennial global Offshore Europe conference. OE is one of the world's largest
technical conference and exhibitions for the offshore E&P industry. The event
attracted more than 63,000 delegates from over 100 countries in 2013,
which was a record number of visitors and an increase of more than 30% on
2011 figures.
Around 50% of overseas visits to Aberdeen are for business purposes, far
higher than the 17% recorded for Scotland overall.
In 2014, Aberdeen was again listed as a Hotel Super City alongside
locations such as Singapore, Barcelona, Beijing and Central London.
Aberdeen occupancy rates for the year 2014 were 77%, rising to almost
100% Monday to Thursday driven by a high demand from business travellers.
Aberdeen office take-up has grown rapidly in the past 10 years and in 2014
the annual take-up exceeded 1 million square feet
Aberdeen International Airport welcomes more than 3.5million passengers a
year and has seen around a 40% increase since 2003 against a UK average
Miscellaneous
In late 2014, Aberdeen was ranked the best city to live and work in
Scotland and the second best in the UK by PwC [Good Growth for Cities
2013].
The food and drink sector supports around 22,000 jobs in the region and
accounts for around a fifth of Scotlands food and drink economic activity
Over a third of all revenue in the sector is derived from countries outside
the UK.
(AGCC, Food and Drink Survey 2014)