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12 January 2021

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ABL Group (OSE: ABL Group ASA – ticker code “ABL”) is a leading independent global consultancy delivering energy, marine, engineering and digital solutions to drive safety and sustainability in renewables, maritime and oil & gas sectors. The group has offices in 39 countries worldwide and operates under four brands: ABL, OWC, Longitude and AGR.

OWC appoints head of Asia Pacific region

Following a substantial regional expansion in Asia over recent years, international offshore wind consultancy firm OWC has appointed Tom Whittle to its newly created role of Asia Pacific regional director.

In 2018, OWC opened its first Asia Pacific office in Taiwan. Today, the company also has offices in South Korea and Japan and has also been involved in project developments in Vietnam.  

“Tom’s remit is to continue growing our existing teams and establish new offices to support wind developers locally. Offshore wind is a rapidly growing industry in the Asia Pacific region, and international and regional developers operating here have welcomed our strategy of providing project development, owners engineering and technical due diligence services on the ground locally, supporting local industry development and value creation” says Will Cleverly, managing director of OWC. 

According to the Global Wind Energy Council, Asia is set to become a leader in offshore wind, with its share in the global offshore wind market expected to grow from 24 per cent in 2019 to 42 per cent in 2025 and for the rest of the decade. The council expects that the top five markets in the region for new installations over the next decade will be China (52GW), Taiwan (10.5GW), South Korea (7.9GW), Japan (7.4GW) and Vietnam (5.2GW).

Tom Whittle, previously OWC’s country manager in Taiwan, has worked as a project director, project manager and package manager on a number of offshore wind projects in the UK, Europe and Asia. He has significant experience in project development, floating wind, interface management, site investigations, foundation installation, cables installation and offshore construction.  

Whittle is also OWC’s floating wind lead and sits on the floating committee of the WFO – World Forum Offshore Wind.  

“With Asia Pacific countries’ massive energy transition investment plans in both floating and fixed offshore wind, this is a highly exciting region. I am glad that OWC continues its strategy of building up presence and competence close to where our clients have their projects and we look forward to reinforcing our presence in the years to come,” says Tom Whittle, OWC’s Asia Pacific director. 

OWC is an independent consultant offering project development services, owner’s engineering and technical due diligence to the offshore renewables sector.

For further information, please contact:

Endre Johansen, Corporate Communications AS
Telephone: +47 41 61 06 05
Email: endre.johansen@corpcom.no

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AqualisBraemar LOC ASA (OSE: Aqua) offers independent adjusting, marine and offshore consultancy to the global renewables, maritime, oil and gas and power sectors. The group has offices in 39 countries worldwide. AqualisBraemar LOC ASA operates under seven brands: AqualisBraemar, LOC, OWC, Innosea, Longitude, JLA and ABL Yacht Services.