Offshore Oil and Gas Industry ResearchFunding Models: An opportunity for coordinated, collaborative,industry based research
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Oil and gas research has traditionally been funded via uncoordinated, individual and collectiveresearch funding mechanisms. This situation may have led to duplication of research, a potentialreduction in financial leveraging opportunities for research projects and inadvertent siloing ofknowledge within individual organisations. A negative result of such uncoordinated research activity,may be slow research progress and unfilled knowledge gaps for the oil and gas industry.This paper proposes that a more efficient industry research process and funding model is required.One that is built upon best practice principles drawn from other successful and sustainable industryresearch funding models. It also proposes that there is an opportunity for all Australian offshore oiland gas operators, government funding entities, small to medium enterprise and researchorganisations to collaborate to perform co-ordinated industry research within Australia. Via, increasedindustry collaboration and strategically targeting high impact industry research topics, there is anopportunity to achieve more complex research outcomes. The result should be an improvement inknowledge of industry issues that must be managed long term.The safe and efficient extraction and recovery of offshore oil and gas resources in Australia can bemaximised for all stakeholders. This can be achieved by sharing research project risk, past domesticand international experience, industry knowledge, geological, seismic and environmental data anddistribution of research outcomes to promote future applied and pure research activity.Ultimately, the benefits of an increased Australian industry research capability, via leveraging ofindustry and government funding, requires the inclusion of Australia’s world class researchorganisations and Universities as part of any industry research funding model initiative.To begin to address these issues, this paper investigates existing Industry Research Funding Models(IRFM) that may be provide an industry wide sustainable offshore oil and gas industry researchmechanism. Such a mechanism, will in turn, provide a level of coordination and accelerated researchthat updates community knowledge, provides information to support informed regulation, developsa social licence to operate, and accelerates research and development commercialisation.As part of the methodology, the paper poses a research question, reviews domestic and internationalfunding models, identifies of possible funding mechanisms, considers of regulations and legalframeworks in Australia, and importantly, assesses the need for a centralised industry research bodyto assist with the delivery of oil and gas industry based research, as has occurred elsewhere aroundthe globe. An initial business case and implementation plan is also developed.
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