Baku-APA. A new pipeline welding center was officially opened in Scotland on Wednesday, aiming to develop subsea pipeline technologies for the world's oil and gas markets, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
Situated at Clydebank in Scotland's largest city Glasgow, the Global Pipeline Welding Development Center is an investment project of 10 million pounds (about 15.11 million U.S. dollars) by Subsea 7, a major offshore energy contractor registered in Luxembourg and headquartered in London, said the Scottish government press release.
The development was supported with a grant of 800,000 pounds from Scottish Enterprise, and the innovative pipeline technologies to satisfy increasing market needs associated with oil and gas discoveries increasingly made in deeper water and tougher conditions will be deployed by the subsea oil and gas industry across the globe, in countries including the Britain, Norway and the United States.
Speaking during the official opening of the center, Scottish First Minister Alext Salmond hailed the important development center as "an exemplar of skilled professionals and researchers working together to improve the way in which oil and gas are extracted for our needs."
As a seabed-to-surface engineering, construction and services contractor to the offshore energy industry worldwide, subsea 7 has more than 2,000 employees in Scotland with 150 at the Global Pipeline Welding Development Center at Clydebank.
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