Gareth Evans

Dr Gareth Evans spent nearly twenty years, developing and implementing commercial R&D, waste/water recycling and pollution control programmes, gaining experience in land and wetland management, project management and pilot plant design/commissioning. He was also responsible for feasibility studies for European 5th framework programme and involved as a consultant on a projects in the UK, Europe, Turkey and Tasmania. A member of the European Federation of Biotechnology, he was then approached to lead the Environmental Biotechnology teaching at the University of Durham. He now writes extensively on environmental, scientific and technical subjects in a variety of international magazines and online media.

All articles by Gareth Evans

1. Could electrifying methane flaring unlock a massive, wasted resource?

   A staggering 143 billion cubic metres of methane-rich gas – equating to around 3.5% of the world’s total gas production…
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   15 Jan
2. Fort William Underwater Centre: inside the world’s most advanced subsea testing facility

   First established by the British Government back in the early 1970s as a subsea testing and trials facility, the Underwater…
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   10 Jan
3. Oil & the Philippines: will the Hague’s South Sea ruling silence Beijing’s claims?

   On the face of it, smouldering decades of the David-and-Goliath-style spat between the Philippines and China over maritime sovereignty were…
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   11 Oct
4. Should the European Bank support oil exploration?

   Faced with enduring financial misery and seemingly endless years of hardship to come in the wake of the Euro crisis,…
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   3 Oct
5. Tax reform on the UKCS

   Four years after he controversially raised the tax burden on the North Sea oil and gas industry, Chancellor George Osborne’s…
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   18 Nov
6. Offshore training: from Aberdeen to South Korea

   Founded back in 1495, as the third oldest university in Scotland and said to be the fifth in the English-speaking…
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   21 Oct
7. Offshore fracking on the cards for Scotland?

   As the Scottish referendum campaign moved into its final fortnight, the talk of an ‘oil bonanza’ and an ‘independence boost’…
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   7 Dec
8. Worried about the weather? Using mathematical modelling to reduce offshore risk

   It has been said that the trouble with weather forecasting is that it is right too often to ignore, but…
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   26 Oct
9. Unlocking the UK’s offshore coal

   Britain was built on coal – from the prehistoric forests that first made the black mineral on which this island…
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   28 Sep
10. Danger in the mists – the volatile potential of offshore hydrocarbons releases

    From the Hafgufa ‘sea-steam’ of the old Icelandic sagas – supposedly the largest monster in the ocean, able to swallow…
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    16 Jul