Oil and Gas UK will run a free event in Aberdeen later this month to help graduates with energy-industry-related degrees find jobs.
Graduates who have recently been fired or have been unable to get a job in the first place will have a chance to explore their options at the workshop.
Representatives from several organisations, including Skills Development Scotland, OPITO, the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), the Oil and Gas Innovation Centre, will be on hand to offer advice and support.
Oil industry experts will chew over the causes of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster at an event in Aberdeen next week.
The blowout of BP’s Macondo well killed 11 men, caused serious ecological damage and cost the company billions.
John Turley, whose career included a stint as Gulf Coast drilling manager for Marathon Oil, has poured over petroleum engineering data during the well’s final hours to come up with an explanation for the explosion.
Robert Gordon University students yesterday unveiled plans for trophy design competition entries they have been concocting for an awards ceremony.
The prizes handed out to winners at next year’s Offshore Achievement Awards (OAAs) will be based on the winning design.
The competition’s organisers said the trophy should reflect the themes of the OAAs – innovation, collaboration and creativity.
More than 600 people working in North Sea oil and gas came together last night to celebrate achievement in the face of adversity and the best examples of how the industry is collaborating to ensure the future of the region.
The 2015 Oil & Gas UK awards took place at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre attended by indsutry veterans including Sir Ian Wood and Total's Philippe Guys.
The industry body's chief executive Deirdre Michie said this year's event was "notable" marking both "50 years of progress in exploration and production in the UK" but was also an important "tuning point" for how the sector does business.
The head of Oil and Gas UK (OGUK) yesterday urged companies to drop “cynicism” and embrace the new way of working after the trade body unveiled a number of new initiatives at an annual business event.
OGUK’s Share Fair aims to stoke collaboration and drum up business by giving supply chain companies a rare chance to have one-to-one interviews with operators’ decision makers throughout the day, in a format not dissimilar to speed-dating.
OGUK chief executive Deirdre Michie said that while the attendance was down slightly on previous years, a turnout of 900 plus was still very good and showed the industry is trying to improve the difficult situation it finds itself in.
Visitors to Oil and Gas UK’s annual Share Fair said the event indicated that operators’ attitudes towards the supply chain are thawing amid the oil price downturn.
Delegates who participated in one-to-one interviews, more than 1,000 of which were held throughout the day, said buyers were more receptive to new ideas than had previously been the case.
Jan Stander, business development manager at Trac Oil and Gas, an Aberdeen-based energy service firm, said a slight dip in attendance had helped improve opportunities to break the ice with potential clients.
They dined, they wined and then danced the evening away as the Press and Journal Energy Ball showed once again why it is the top night on the north-east’s social calendar.
The hunt is on for potential winners of the 2016 Offshore Achievement Awards (OAAs) in a timely reminder of “great success stories” still happening in the energy industry despite its woes.
Energy Voice brought together an expert panel and an informed audience for Energy 2050 - Securing Our Future, offering a unique insight into where the oil and gas industry is headed in coming years.
Organisers of the Offshore Europe exhibition hailed its second best ever attendance despite the effects of the oil price crash casting a pall over proceedings.
The Offshore Europe Partnership, a joint venture between Reed Exhibitions and the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), said attendance figures remained “very strong” at 55,947 with delegates drawn from 104 countries. This compares to 2013 when crowds hit a record 63,000.
The organisation also said re-bookings for 2017 are looking “strong already”.
This year the record hit by the four day exhibition was the 1,535 exhibitors from 44 countries, including 336 companies exhibiting at the event for the first time. Space available at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC) was - it’s biggest ever - was sold-out.
A school visit to offshore Europe in 2009 changed the life of former Mackie Academy pupil Craig Gordon.
The apprentice draughtsman now works at Technip where he describes everyday as "different" after landing his dream job.
Six years ago he was one of the 11,000 secondary school students in the UK who have already been inspired to date to find out about the oil and gas industry through OPITO's Energise Your Future events.
Later today when stands are being dismantled, cars eventually manage to exit the AECC car park and delegates stand in the security queue at the airport, what will be the lasting impressions of Offshore Europe 2015?
Hopefully not the announcement that 5,500 North Sea jobs have been lost in recent months (surely an unnecessary stat this week?) or the traffic glue frustrations experienced by some.
Inevitably comparisons will be made by many (not least Aberdeen’s hoteliers and publicans) with OE 2013. But is that appropriate?
Charles Darwin is quoted as having said “In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed”.
Stirling Group aims to help reduce the single largest cause of fatalities in the global oil and gas industry through its newly accredited advanced and defensive driver training scheme.
Oil major Shell has sought to transform the perception of the oil and gas industry after receiving no applications from female students for their engineering programme six years ago.
The company and Aberdeen's North East College sought to understand why the only submissions had been from male applicants.
Shell said three key reasons were found - poor perception of the industry, lack of female role models and poor experience of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) subjects.
Despite the challenges that the industry is currently facing in relation to the current commodity price, we have continued to see a steady stream of visitors to what remains the largest oil and gas event in Europe.
I’ve always been impressed by what there is to see at Offshore Europe, showing in so many ways the breadth and depths, quite literally, that our industry goes to in order to innovate, push new boundaries and find new solutions. I am pleased that this year’s conference and exhibition has upheld that tradition.
Offshore Europe provided “good bang for the buck” this year despite reports that attendance was down from the prior event when oil was booming in 2013.
Howard Johnson, co-founder and managing director of Blaze Manufacturing Solutions, admitted that business for the Laurencekirk-based firm would be down by third this year when compared to last year.
The firm, which specialises in oil and gas fire safety protection systems, was exhibiting on the Scottish Pavilion which is spearheaded by Scottish Enterprise.
Aberdeen-based engineering services firm Aiken Group's turnover more than doubled to £26.1 million in the past year and it has celebrated the achievement with a new product launch at Offshore Europe.
I travelled to Houston just days after the Macondo blowout; not to join the media horde that was out to pillory BP and its chief executive of that time, Tony Hayward, but to attend OTC.
Needless to say, the 2010 show became dominated by the disaster as vitriol spilled forth via a host of news media bent on crucifying “Briddish Petroleum”.
The industry was in shock ... absolutely caught on the back foot; so were government agencies in charge of the US Gulf, notably the MMS (Minerals Management Service), which was rapidly dismantled and replaced by a new regulatory and safety system that included the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
GoM operators came under massive pressure to get their act together and to develop adequate countermeasures.
In July 2010, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil committed to providing a deepwater containment response capability for the US Gulf.
