The former oil capital of Europe has a “genuine opportunity” to redefine itself amid the switch from fossil fuels to renewables – but an expert has warned it is “very much entering a make-or-break period”.
Professor Paul de Leeuw, director of the Energy Transition Institute at Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University, spoke out as a report warned that up to 18,000 jobs could be lost from the offshore energy workforce in the period up to 2035 – the equivalent of about 1,600 job losses a year.
