Two-thirds of engineering graduates are still reasonably or very confident about finding a job, with energy cited as one of the attractions, according to a survey carried out by gradcracker.com - the careers website for engineering students.
ABERDEEN-BASED language school English for Everyone has launched a course for non-native speakers of English who work or aspire to work in the UK oil&gas industry.
A 1930s-specification house built in 2008 has just undergone the first of three energy-efficiency upgrades which will ultimately convert an energy-inefficient house into a zero-carbon home designed to meet the Government's 2016 CO targets for all new housing.
THE Americans have just successfully launched a small rocket using an "environmentally-friendly", safe propellant comprised of aluminium powder and water ice, called ALICE.
Fuel-cell technology being developed in Scandinavian could make a major difference to the levels of carbon dioxide pumped out by lorries. Fitted aboard a lorry, such a unit would kick in during engine idling periods, which are commonplace with commercial vehicles.
GROWING Aberdeen-based service company Brinker is focused on taking an innovative and scientific approach to reducing downtime and improving safety when tackling asset and well integrity leaks.
Eleven E&A wells are currently active on the UKCS utilising 10 mobile rigs and one platform, with seven new spuds reported over the last month, bringing this year's tally to 31 wells and 20 sidetracks.
SBM Offshore has been contracted by Noble Energy for the provision, lease and operation of a production ship (FPSO) for the Aseng field on block I offshore Equatorial Guinea in waters about 1,000m (3,300ft) in depth.
THE NPD (Norwegian Petroleum Directorate) has given the green light to StatoilHydro and DNO for drilling offshore Norway with three different drilling rigs.
NORWEGIAN company Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has been awarded a contract by Total E&P Norge to provide 3D electromagnetic (EM) data acquisition and processing over the Frigg field, which is at an advanced stage of decommissioning.
OFFSHORE engineering company Aquaterra Energy is continuing its rapid expansion by setting up a permanently in Aberdeen.
FMC Technologies has been awarded an important world-first contract to provide Petrobras with a subsea system capable of processing heavy crude in the Campos Basin Marlim field offshore Brazil.
ON SEPTEMBER 2, a memorial service to celebrate the life of Mary Dwyer, former public-affairs manager of Total E&P UK, was held in the Oil Chapel, St Nicholas Kirk, Aberdeen, and presided over by North Sea chaplain the Reverend Andrew J. Jolly.
ANALYSIS of 19 target countries and 26 key onshore and offshore market sectors - ranging from land drilling equipment to offshore operations - has revealed that overall expenditure levels are expected to total $2trillion over 2009-13.
TWO new records have been set in north-west European waters in recent weeks, one by StatoilHydro with a live pipeline hot tap, while an alliance comprising Island Offshore, FMC Technologies and Aker Well Service has set a new water-depth world record for subsea riserless wireline intervention from a ship.
Today - on the eve of Offshore Europe 2009 - Shell's nerve centre for UK offshore operations celebrates its 30th anniversary.
Late-August marked the 150th anniversary of the success of efforts by the "crazy Yankee", Edwin Drake, to find oil.
Early-2007 saw Vetco Gray bought out of private equity ownership by General Electric for a shade under $2billion.
RDS, the engineering division of Aberdeen-headquartered KCA Deutag, has been taken on by BP for the Clair Ridge drilling facilities design.
This year's Offshore Europe will provide the backdrop for ITF, the Industry Technology Facilitator, to showcase the success of the Energy Talent Development (ETD) initiative, a collaborative programme set up to provide real industry projects for postgraduate study.
Aberdeen may have just about sidled past the worst effects of recession thanks to North Sea oil&gas; nonetheless, there is a creeping paralysis gradually strangling the entrepreneurial drive that has come to characterise Europe's Energy Capital of late.
Life in terms of safety is not about to get easier in the North Sea oil&gas industry just because many of the boxes have been ticked in the so-called KP3 review carried out by the Health & Safety Executive.
NON-DESTRUCTIVE testing specialist Applus RTD UK has chosen Offshore Europe as the platform to launch what is one of the most significant and, for the North Sea, most relevant integrity technologies set to appear at the show.
A SMALL Scottish company is taking on the big offshore turret mooring systems brands such as SBM by offering a concept whose roots lie in an approach long used by the British Admiralty for tethering ships.
Keppel FELS of Singapore has delivered the Maersk Discoverer, the second of three DSS 21 class deepwater semi-submersible drilling rigs, to Maersk Drilling.
