THE CLIENT: Prospect

THE BACKGROUND: Prospect is an Aberdeen-based company which provides integrated, multidisciplinary engineering design and analysis consultancy services to clients worldwide. It is a global division of the Hallin Group. An essential part of designing a turbine is an assessment of the combined wind loading plus wave loading on the structure. EPCC and Prospect are evaluating the benefits of using parallel computing to carry out numerical simulation of the behaviour of offshore wind turbines.

THE CLIENT: D3 technologies

THE BACKGROUND: D3 Technologies Ltd is a world leader in the field of molecular detection systems.They specialise in the highly selective and sensitive techniques of surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and surface enhanced resonance Raman scattering (SERRS) to produce products with superior detection capability.

THE CLIENT: Shell

THE BACKGROUND: The greatest financial risks borne by Oil & Gas companies occur during “frontier” exploration when crucial licensing/development decisions have to be made on the basis of limited and often unreliable data. This puts a premium on survey methods that can cover very large areas rapidly and identify promising leads.