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About CATCH
CATCH is recognised as the leading membership cluster organisation and sector skills lead in the Humber, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire area, working with industry and stakeholders to develop in demand regional industrial skills since 2006. It has world class training facilities, emulating industrial plant, equipment and processes.
About Phillips 66 Limited
The Phillips 66 Limited Humber Refinery produces lower carbon road fuels, is the UK’s only refinery to supply sustainable aviation fuel at scale and is Europe’s only producer of speciality graphite coke for lithium-ion batteries.
About Viking CCS
Led by Harbour Energy and with non-operated partner bp, Viking CCS is planning to develop the infrastructure to transport and store CO2 in secure offshore storage sites. Working with a wide range of emissions capture and infrastructure members, the project will create a CO2 capture, transportation and storage network targeting a reduction of 10 million tonnes of UK emissions per annum by 2030 and up to 15 million tonnes by 2035.
About Drax Group
Drax Group’s purpose is to enable a zero carbon, lower cost energy future and in 2019 announced a world-leading ambition to be carbon negative by 2030, using bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) technology.
Drax’s c.3,500 employees operate across three principal areas of activity – electricity generation, electricity sales to business customers and compressed wood pellet production and supply to third parties.
About Air Products
Air Products (NYSE:APD) is a world-leading industrial gases company focused on serving energy, environmental, and emerging markets. Air Products’ base business provides essential industrial gases, related equipment and applications expertise to customers in dozens of industries, including refining, chemicals, metals, electronics, manufacturing, and food. The Company also develops, engineers, builds, owns and operates some of the world's largest clean hydrogen projects supporting the transition to low- and zero-carbon energy in the heavy-duty transportation and industrial sectors.
About Uniper
Uniper is an international energy company with activities in more than 40 countries. The company and its roughly 7,000 employees make an important contribution to supply security in Europe, particularly in its core markets of Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and the Netherlands.
In the UK, Uniper owns and operates a flexible generation portfolio of seven power stations, a fast-cycle gas storage facility and two high pressure gas pipelines. We also have significant long-term regasification capacity at the Grain LNG terminal in Kent, to convert LNG back to natural gas.
About ABP
Associated British Ports (ABP) is the UK’s leading ports group, with 21 ports in its portfolio. ABP’s Humber ports form the UK’s busiest trading gateway handling more than 60 million tonnes of cargo between them each year, worth approximately £80 billion. ABP Humber is also a central player in the region’s growing role as a green energy leader being involved with offshore wind (both manufacturing and operations) and with a pipeline of major projects for green hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.
About ECITB
The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) is the employer-led skills body for the Engineering Construction Industry in Great Britain. A non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Education, the ECITB works with employers and government to attract, develop and qualify personnel across a wide range of craft, technical and managerial disciplines. We invest around £28 million every year to enhance skills across the engineering construction industry, support growth through workforce training, and tackle labour shortages and skills gaps. www.ecitb.org.uk
The Humber plays a vital role as a strategic asset for UK Plc as Britain’s global gateway. It is home to the UK’s busiest ports complex, including the major ports of Hull, Goole, Immingham and Grimsby, together handling 17% of the nation’s trade.
About Humber Freeport
In the March 2021 Budget, it was announced that the Humber was one of eight locations in England selected for Freeport status. In March 2023 the Government confirmed Humber Freeport’s Final Business Case had been given conditional approval. This announcement paved the way for the full establishment of the freeport company and for the new body to focus on the delivery of new investment and jobs in the region. Humber Freeport was officially launched in July 2023, with a mission to drive hundreds of millions of pounds of investment and create thousands of new jobs.