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HyNet North West Pipeline Project
Rockall is pleased to announce its engagement with Cadent’s HyNet North West Hydrogen project, to support the project being ready for the deliver phase. Cadent is the UK’s largest gas distribution network with a 200-year legacy, and involved in several hydrogen projects in partnership with the energy sector, including the HyNet North West Hydrogen pipeline ...
Read more Rio Tinto Simandou Project
Rockall has provided professional consultancy services to Rio Tinto’s Simandou Project. Simandou contains one of the world’s largest and richest high-grade iron ore deposits, demand for which is increasing as steelmakers look to reduce carbon emissions. Rockall provided major project consultancy services to the Infrastructure Project, specifically the new-build port and transhipment vessels, in the ...
Read more HyNet North West Pipeline Project
Rockall is supporting Cadent’s HyNet North West Hydrogen Pipeline project, an innovative project that aims to unlock a lower carbon economy for the North West of England and North Wales. The project will be the UK’s first 100 per cent hydrogen pipeline at scale. The pipeline project is part of the HyNet low carbon cluster ...
Read more Major project delivery consultancy services
Rockall has been engaged by Wintershall Dea for professional consultancy on major project delivery. Wintershall Dea, Europe’s leading independent natural gas and oil company, is targeting Net Zero by 20301 and is participating in CCS and hydrogen projects. Rockall was selected following a competitive tender to provide major project and project delivery system expertise, as ...
Read more Rockall – one year on
We started Rockall a little over a year ago with the aim of applying our major projects capability to the energy transition to lower carbon, affordable and accessible energy. Our view is the build-out of a low carbon energy system will be done via Projects. Small projects to develop solutions and large projects to deliver ...
Read more Fellowship of APM, the Association for Project Management
My thanks to the Association for Project Management for promoting my membership to Fellow. APM Fellowship recognises those who have made a significant contribution to the profession as a practitioner, teacher or researcher and would like to use their knowledge and experience to help shape the further development of the project profession. The APM is ...
Read more MSc projects at the Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
I had the privilege of participating as a judge at the recent MSc group’s research projects final presentations at the Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean & Marine Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. This year, the MSc project teams were set the task of developing an offshore hydrogen concept, and the four groups took different ...
Read more Why “Rockall”?
The name was inspired by two things. One is the islet way out in the Atlantic ocean and the second is the shipping forecast region by the same name. The islet is a small granite pinnacle surrounded by Helen’s reef and cold water corals. The shipping forecast region is a huge area exposed to the ...
Read more Rockall goes live
I’m delighted to say that my new business, Rockall, is up and running. I’m not expecting a big splash, it is a small enterprise, but it feels good and I’m especially excited to be doing this at this point in time. 2021 is shaping up to be a fascinating period in the energy industry with ...
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