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Government supported n Established in 2005, the program ends

September 2014. From 2007-2010 it research and development projects funded 109 projects with annual funding n

Brazil It has funded 219 projects since 1999, of US23.5million/yr (£14.7 million).

The R & D agreement clause - with a Norwegian focus. With 20 mem- It is funded at US$30million/yr to the

Brazilian National Agency of ber companies, it averaged NOK84.2 end of the program. RPSEA as 165

Petroleum (ANP), www.anp.gov.br million ($14.6 million) in investment members strategically focused on: n (Portuguese only) from 2006-2008. Ultra Deep Water Program (UDW), n Unconventional Resources Program n n It is driven by a national technical (UCR), and

Companies pay 1% of their gross oil & n strategy: Oil and Gas in the 21st Century Small Producer Program (SP).

gas production revenue to the govern- (OG21). ment to create an R&D fund for invested

NETL (The National Energy in R&D schemes within Brazil.

USA

Technology Laboratory) – n As part of the R&D scheme, ANP stipu- DeepStar - http://www.deepstar.org www.netl.doe.gov/index.html lates that at least 50% of the fund must n n be used within universities or research 132 projects since 2002, with focus on Established in 1999, NETL has institutions approved by ANP. subsea systems. completed more than 1800 projects with total funding of US$9 billion ($5 n n In 2012, the R&D fund is expected to Received an average annual funding billion from private sector). It has 11 site accumulate R$1.21 billion (£362 million). award of £2.4 million (US$3.7 million). support contracts with several areas of strategic focus including: n nn The fund is projected to raise almost Oil and natural gas supply, Gulf of Mexico key market area. n

R$20 billion (Almost £6 billion) by 2020. Coal and power systems, n n 11 member companies. Industrial capture & storage, n

Norway Carbon sequestration, n

Demo2000 - Ministry of Petroleum RPSEA (Research Program for the Hydrogen and clean fuels, and n and Energy (MPE)

Security of Energy for America) – US Technology transfer.

Dept of Energy – www.rpsea.org www.demo2000.no new jobs have been created in the sec- 48% work in services which include than 10% growth, and a further 28% tor since 2010, bringing the total num- engineering, construction and div- forecasting no growth. If these forecasts ber of jobs supported by the industry to ing. Manufacturing accounts for 19% are achieved, the sector could grow to 66,000. This fgure takes account of the of the 53,000 jobs. Almost half the £11.1 billion by 2016. The increase in 53,000 directly employed in the subsea respondents are anticipating growth activity in the North Sea has played a industry as well as the 13,000 in jobs in excess of 20% in the next three major factor in this continued growth which indirectly support the sector. years, with 28% predicting to grow but exports remain high, accounting

Of the direct subsea workforce, by 10-20%, only 1% predicting less for 43% of total revenues.

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