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INNOVATION ZONE
By Katie Milne
Denmark’s downhill slope, proves it’s on the up Copenhagen, allegedly the happiest city in the world has even more to smile about than usual. The infamously flat country now boasts an active winter-sports industry, thanks to some innovative thinking around the aesthetics and cultural opportunities presented by a city-based waste-to-energy plant.
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he CopenHill ski slope, was first conceived by Danish Architects in 2011 as part of an initiative to promote recreation and sustainability. Ten years in the making, the CopenHill Ski slope was opened to the public in 2019, allowing avid winter sports enthusiasts to soar down a 450-metre slope, complete with views of the Danish Capital, Copenhagen, while 450,000 tonnes of waste is recycled below their feet. Denmark, a country with no hills or mountains, has long lost-out to its Nordic neighbours in terms of winter sports tourism, so, when the idea came about to build an artificial
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s a global company, Premier Oil procurement processes significant levels of complex service and equipment agreements. These agreements involve input from across the business including technical, commercial, financial and legal specialists. The intensity of this process often generates large volumes of sensitive and detailed information with contractors and intermediaries within their supply chain. Historically, procurement teams have been heavily reliant on email to track and coordinate supply chain communications, accompanied by heavy PDF’s of contracts and data. The one-to-one nature of transactions undertaken in this way creates a significant compliance issue in terms of data management and corporate oversight.
DeepStream’s technology provides a fully integrated, tender-based portal which offers a full-service procurement solution, ensuring governance, compliance and auditability of documentation and communications across the supply base.
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ski slope merged with the concept of a waste-toenergy-plant, plans were set in motion to make it a reality. A 450m ski slope constructed on the roof of a large incinerator which burns waste to produce heat and electricity is not a simple feat to achieve. A first of its kind, the CopenHill Ski Slope is the perfect manifestation of aesthetic and cultural harmony between industry and environment. Costing around £490 million at point of build, the attraction now draws around 55,000 visitors per year to the city. Copenhagen has ambitious climate goals, aiming to become the first capital city to become carbon neutral by 2025. The creation of the Amager Bakke met the criteria for meeting these goals as the new plant would burn household waste instead of burning fossil fuels. Located in the capital city of Denmark, the Amager Bakke is said to have the cleanest incinerator in the world. The plant receives over 400 tonnes of waste for recycling every day from households
and business throughout Copenhagen. Scrubbing equipment removes the bulk of sulfur and nitrogen emissions and two huge furnaces burn 400,000 tonnes of waste at temperatures of around 1,000oC. A turbine and generator produce energy which is fed into grids. Any leftover energy from the steam is used to provide heating to over 72,000 homes. This is a system called district heating which is commonly used throughout Denmark. Prior to Amager Bakke, Copenhagen relied on a coal plant was located just outside the city. Built in 1971, far from any residential areas to minimise disruption, the plant became unsuitable as the city expanded around it, forcing the municipal corporation owners to replace the plant with one that was safer, greener and wouldn’t be an eyesore. Thus, the Amager Bakke was born. The plant is run by waste management firm, Amager Resource Centre (ARC) and owned by five local municipalities, while engineering firms Babcock and Wilcox Vollund built the main infrastructure for the plant.
DeepStream Technologies to transform Premiere Oil supply chain operations Global E&P Company, Premiere Oil is set to energise their procurement operations through adoption of digital technology developed by London-based Software development Company DeepStream Technologies Ltd. which aims to create an open and collaborative approach to holistic supply chain management. “It’s important that we have best-in-class processes and technology to ensure our operations continue to be robust and efficient.” Said Steven Petrie, Premier Oil UKBU Supply Chain Manager. “In our supply chain operations, we are focused on performance in terms of delivering value and assuring communication auditability and compliance: DeepStream is making a significant contribution to those objectives” he added. According their website, Deepstream Technologies strive to help businesses digitise their offering and facilitate commercial transactions in a secure, transparent and collaborative environment for compliant data exchange. By developing a highly user-friendly product with the latest software technology available to an underserved enterprise market, DeepStream has facilitated over US$600m of industrial tender-based transactions globally including in the UK, Norway, US, Mexico and West Africa. Jack Macfarlane, DeepStream Technologies Chief Executive Officer, commented:
“DeepStream is delighted to be working with Premier Oil in the UKCS, and we have been extremely impressed with their ambitions in leading the way towards a digital and transparent supply chain, sharing our vision in using technology to drive overall industry collaboration. We are not only facilitating a dramatically improved software experience for Premier Oil, but also enabling a secure and auditable tendering platform which removes the compliance risks associated with opaque email & attachment driven processes”. Deepstream’s innovative technology lends itself well to Premier Oil’s ambition to grow shareholder value by investing in high quality production and development opportunities whilst maintaining exposure to upside value from successful exploration within a strict capital discipline framework. This collaboration enables Premier to maintain the highest standards of corporate responsibility whilst providing DeepStream with a high-volume E&P client to further develop its digital offering to the industry.
