Shell has adopted the open innovation approach to address current challenges for the oil/gas/energy sector. In June, the oil and gas major officially opened its ETCA (Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam). The location of the campus is on the north bank of the IJ in Amsterdam.
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The history of Shell Technology Centre Am-sterdam spans over 100 years. Traditionally, this center focused on oil and gas. ETCA has a broader perspective, collaborating with various companies, for example in battery technology, and various competences such as additive manufacturing.
“The energy transition needs collaboration to solve complex challenges, to advance the research and development of new technologies and to scale-up existing technologies for various industrial applications”, Shell states. “Working together in a thriving and vibrant campus, the Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam community is where the world’s greatest minds solve the world’s energy challenges.”
The ETCA building is the size of 13 football fields and full of laboratories, workshops, test halls and offices. 1,000 people from more than 50 countries continue to learn, develop, and innovate with one purpose: to solve the world’s biggest energy challenges through collaboration and technological innovation.
Sustainable aviation fuel
“Together with Shell, start-ups, scale-ups, research institutes, academia and mature companies have the opportunity to collaborate and innovate, developing energy solutions for today and tomorrow”, the company states.
Among the first members of the Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam are the Alliander energy network company, multidisciplined engineering company IPSS, advanced technological solution provider Kongsberg, AI software provider C3.
AI, Technip Energy, data intelligence company Databricks, maritime battery technology provider Corvus Energy, start-up Finno Exergy, Yokogawa, IT service provider Accenture, the Utrecht University, and developer of bio-based alternatives Vertoro.
Energy transition requires innovation
“Shell employees in Amsterdam have been working together on innovation and development for over a hundred years”, says President-Director Shell Nederland Marjan van Loon. “The urgency of the energy transition asks for collaboration. We have opened our doors so institutes, universities, companies, start-ups, scale-ups can work together to find innovative solutions for the energy transition.” Research that has led to many innovations and even quite recently led to the production of 500 litres of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) that was used on a regular flight from Amsterdam to Madrid. Other activities include digitalisation, artificial intelligence, 3D-printing, circular chemicals for daily products, and sustainable energy solutions including CO2 reusage and storage, electrification, and hydrogen.
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