Shuroque Baloch
I work in our integrated offshore projects team, within future strategy, in ENI. My current job role is to analyse different integrated offshore designs and come up with the optimal solutions.
Mainly our job involves looking at the tech aspects of the offshore networks as well as the economic aspects such as costings and the comparisons between integrated networks and radial designs.
My daily job involves me sitting at my desk and running studies and doing cost analysis, and helping towards producing reports and documents relating to integrated offshore designs.
The key projects I’ve worked on are studying the offshore networks and the different designs such as integrated radial and radial blast designs, and how these offshore networks are going to impact the onshore networks. Depending on the offshore networks our onshore reinforcements will be different.
In the next few years I’ll be more involved in technical studies of offshore designs – we study networks up to 2030 for now, so we’ll probably be looking at staging of offshore designs depending on different wind generation scenarios. We will also be developing some control strategies to see how the wind can be controlled - wind is an intermittent source so it has be controlled in a very different way to the normal controls.
The thing I enjoy about my role at National Grid is that it’s very exciting, every day there is something new to do and it’s very challenging as well because it’s a new territory for us, to study offshore networks, so it’s very exciting every day.