Oil & gas firms will need a “different mindset” to succeed in the fast-industrialising offshore wind sector, said the CEO of new market entrant and fossil-fuel sector spin-off Aker Offshore Wind.

Astrid Onsum said the growing global market for wind at sea is about “scaling and simplifying technical solutions and mass-producing them. That’s really quite different to oil & gas, which is very much focused on optimising one-off solutions.