Demobus takes centre-stage at HIS open days
North firm Highland Industrial Supplies (HIS) is gearing up for a major event next week, when it throws open its doors to show off some of the best welding and cutting equipment on the market.
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Redundancy and the next steps, find help and guidance through PACE
Losing your job at any time is hard, but with thousands of people facing redundancy from Scotland’s energy sector, the plight of oil and gas workers is especially difficult.
International SOS: Advice for businesswomen travelling across the globe
When we think of travel risks we tend to imagine plane crashes or terrorist attacks. Such events are reasonably rare. The most common risks to travellers are opportunistic crime and traffic accidents.
RGU event for alumni and family members affected by the oil and gas downturn
Determined to help their peers and in partnership with their university, RGU’s Alumni Council, made up of RGU graduate volunteers, is organising a 'free-of-charge' event for all RGU alumni and/or family members of alumni who have been made redundant or are at risk of redundancy.
Opinion: Restructuring and insolvency – the uncomfortable part of the new reality?
Energy Voice has recently published its latest research report “Sub $50 Oil – New Perspectives & Hidden Opportunities”. The aim of the research, as the title suggests, is to identify untapped opportunities in the oil and gas industry in the current low oil price environment, as well as uncovering the main risk factors in play.
Opinion: Pension freedoms two years on
Wendy Atkinson discusses the market challenges
OTC 2016: Why Houston was a game changer for Aberdeen firm
Houston. The Bayou City, the USA’S fourth largest city with a population of 5.9 million, energy capital of the world, home of Nasa and the world’s largest medical centre. The statistics are amazing, breath-taking and inspiring – but they could also seem daunting to a Scottish firm looking to internationalise.
World’s Largest One-day Leadership Conference At The AECC – 06 May 2016
Leadercast Live is the world’s largest one-day leadership conference, broadcast LIVE from Atlanta and simulcast to over 100,000 delegates in more than 20 countries around the world.
Can a non-UK resident join a UK pension scheme?
Since A-day, there is no legislative restriction on who can be a member of a UK registered pension scheme. So in theory, anyone can join a UK scheme regardless of residency.
Final chance to enter Shell’s Bright Ideas Challenge – win up to £5,000 in just 2.5 hours!
What will cities look like in 2050? How will they be powered to be vibrant, healthy and clean places to live? That’s the question Shell is posing to students in S1 and S2, through The Bright Ideas Challenge, their new cross-curricular schools competition.
Business value: local requirements but offshore development
Data analysis and reporting is not just a requirement for many companies, it is the only way to measure and improve profitability. And measure that improvement.
Enter Shell’s Bright Ideas Challenge – Win up to £5,000 in just 2.5 hours!
What will cities look like in 2050? How will they be powered to be vibrant, healthy and clean places to live? That’s the question Shell is posing to secondary students, aged 11-14, through The Bright Ideas Challenge, their new cross-curricular schools competition.
Opinion: Achieving cost savings in a challenging market
There are many challenges facing the energy sector, and reducing operational costs is just one. When your business specialism requires your people to travel to some of the world’s most inaccessible places, those journeys can often have an appropriate price tag.
Opinion: Smith versus Fergusson – the battle of the Scotsmen?
What is the difference between Murray Smith, our Sales and Marketing Director based in Leicester, and Alan Fergusson our Employee Benefits Director based in Aberdeen?
Opinion: The changing ownership of oil and gas infrastructure
The UK’s offshore pipelines and terminals were constructed to export production from the owners’ own oil & gas fields. Although tariff income was generated as third party owned fields were tied-back, that income was small relative to the revenue from the infrastructure owners’ own production. The field owners retained ownership of the infrastructure so that they could control the export route for their existing fields and for discoveries and prospects they may wish to develop in the future.
Opinion: Navigating the black expanse of $30 oil
Where do efficiency savings and productivity gains come from when the obvious wastage is eliminated? When the headcount requires no more than a couple hands and a foot? That’s the question facing many of us now as the black expanse of $30 oil spreads out before us.
Opinion: Is the love affair with pensions tax relief over?
The UK’s pension population’s love affair with pensions tax relief started when the Finance Act 1921 introduced tax relief for contributions to occupational pensions. Now, 95 years later, are we about to see the end of the traditional way in which tax relief is given on pension contributions?
Opinion: Retirement – A time of freedom and enjoyment…
It is interesting the way that the meaning of certain words change with time, and ‘retirement’ is certainly a word that evokes a very different meaning nowadays to what it did 40 years ago. David Gibson, consultant, Mattioli Woods plc.
Scottish Cycling announce new sponsorship ahead of Glasgow Revolution Series
Scottish Cycling is delighted to announce a new sponsorship with leading Scottish commercial law firm Burness Paull. The firm has been named Official Legal Advisor to Scotland’s National Governing Body for cycling and title sponsor of the Scottish team competing in the UK’s premier Track series. Seven riders from Scottish Cycling’s Performance Development programme and four of Scottish Cycling’s Future Stars will be riding alongside stars such as Laura Trott, Geraint Thomas and Katie Archibald in Round 4 of the leading track cycling series under the new team title of Scotland Burness Paull.
The Christmas gift on every child’s wish list – a pension contribution!
Imagine the scene, a blanket of fresh snow on the ground as you walk up to your child’s house, safe in the knowledge you have got this year’s gift for the grandkids in the bag – it’s a winner.
Drone conference confirms speaker line-up
The SkyTech 2016 UAS conference & exhibition has announced its speaker line-up for January’s event.
Offshore contracting’s perfect storm
Helen Dickson, a corporate transactional lawyer with Burness Paull, explains how the offshore contracting industry is being hit by a perfect storm of lower margins, higher risk and squeezed staff numbers.
BT leads apprentice agenda
More young people should be encouraged to pursue apprenticeships as an attractive, viable career path, an industry leader has said. Fraser Rowberry, who heads up BT’s local network business Openreach in Scotland, said any view of apprenticeships being considered a fallback option to university couldn’t be further from the truth.
Video: AVC teams up with Technip for Westbrae subsea well extension project
Full service media and communications company, AVC Media has completed a major project providing video and animation services for world leading project management, engineering and construction company, Technip.
Technip tackles milestone Schiehallion project
The BP operated Schiehallion field first produced oil in the 90s and was estimated to contain more than 2 billion barrels of oil. In 2011, BP and its partners sanctioned the Quad 204 project which, by replacing the existing FPSO, renewing subsea infrastructure and drilling more wells, made it possible to extend the field life to 2036 or beyond, and produce a further 400mm bbl.