The Oil and Gas Innovation Centre has provided £85,000 of funding to three companies that are working in partnership with Scottish universities to develop technologies to improve efficiencies in the oil and gas industry.

Emergency pipe repair company Kibosh is among those to receive funding and will work with Heriot-Watt University to design prototypes of rapid repair and rapid freeze clamps.

Service company Cavitas is working with the University of Strathclyde to develop a downhole device designed to improve the economic feasibility of heavy oil and enhanced oil recovery, and the Composite Scaffolding Company is working with Strathclyde and the University of Glasgow to develop a sector-specific scaffolding system.