The British School of Houston is one of three international schools in the Texas energy centre providing schooling to the families of those on international postings. Headteacher Stephen Foxwell talks to the Press and Journal about the establishment’s outstanding GCSE exam results and how they deal with the sensitive subject of moving children between schools.
Aberdeen technology development firm Spex Group yesterday named Nadir Mahjoub, above, as chief operating officer.
BP boss Bob Dudley's pay fell by a fifth last year because of performance measures set over a three-year period that began in 2010 – the year of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Subsea construction firm Ocean Installer (OI) has taken on a former Seadrill boss as its new chief finance officer.
Roy MacGregor, executive chairman of Inverness and Aberdeen-based Global Energy Group, sent a positive message to graduates that the North Sea oil and gas industry has never been better. Roy was speaking after giving the annual Absoft Entrepreneurship Lecture at the Aberdeen Business School.
Aberdeen-based Dana Petroleum named yesterday a new managing director for its Norwegian activities.
With the countdown started for development drilling by the end of this year, Paul Griffin, Managing director of Dana UK, talks about how the firm’s largest project is vital to its growth plans. The £989million Western Isles project is made up of the Harris and Barra fields in the northern North Sea.
Neil Gordon, chief executive of Subsea UK, talks to P&J Energy about the outlook for the sector and global opportunities for smaller UK companies. He was speaking at the record-breaking ninth annual Subsea show last week, held at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre.
The talent and success of the north east's subsea industry were celebrated at Subsea UK's seventh annual business awards last night.
Aberdeen-based oilfield service firm Glacier Energy Services has appointed two new managing directors to lead a change in the structure of its business.
A north-east oil worker has spoken for the first time of his terrifying ordeal after being kidnapped by terrorists in Nigeria.
Promotional video from Subsea UK outlining the value of the Subsea sector to the United Kingdom.
A new video produced by oil and gas operator TAQA Bratani aims to show the unique 'authentic energy' of the company and its people as part of a wider recruitment drive.
When Bob Rooney put together a business plan for his employer, he could not have known that it would lead to his dismissal.
"It's an exciting time. With growing emphasis on subsea-based production . . . currently around 40% (in the North Sea) but predicted to reach 70%, the message we're receiving from subsea firms is that their order books are looking very good for the next couple of years."
WE LIVE in strange, even desperate times and yet the energy industry is prospering. Anecdotally, while it remains next to impossible to borrow sensibly from banks although they would deny this, the healthy energy sector has other ways of financing its ambitions, notably via private equity.
NEXT month, Rod Buchan will have completed a year as CEO of Cosalt Offshore.
Had it not been for Ian Sharp's passion for diving, he could have opted for a life in the classroom.
HE DARED to question, to challenge the system and he got away with it; something that is probably rather rare in the annals of North Sea history.
IT WAS in April 1990 that Graeme Coutts walked into Expro Group in Aberdeen "to do a favour in between jobs" for the base manager at that time, Glyn Williams, who today heads private equity firm Epi-v
The global expansion strategy of oil and gas service company qedi led to the recent appointment of Sally Hayles as business-development director.
WTR's Willie Rennie is local to the north-east of Scotland, went to Aberdeen Business School and has logged more than 21 years in the oil & gas industry.