Inspiring young Highland researchers of the future
Youngsters from the Highlands have been given a flavour of what careers in the STEM subjects could bring them after visiting Thurso's world-class Environmental Research Institute (ERI).
Youngsters from the Highlands have been given a flavour of what careers in the STEM subjects could bring them after visiting Thurso's world-class Environmental Research Institute (ERI).
A new event to put the oil and gas industry's future professionals through their paces saw its first winner in Aberdeen.
American companies PanAmerican Geophysical and NanoSeis are joining forces to commercialise the Narrow Beam Scan (NBS) microseismic technique developed by the latter to improve the detectability, spatial mapping, and understanding of the nature of microseismic events during the hydraulic fracturing process.
Educational ties between the UK and growing oil and gas province Brazil were strengthened in a recent trade visit to the country by senior UK ministers.
Peterhead's Score Group saw its largest crop of graduations from Banff and Buchan college this year.
Aberdeen-based engineer Andy Reid has been awarded Subsea UK's 2012 scholarship.
GDF Suez E&P UK is to sponsor a course at Aberdeen University to help further oil and gas education.
If new technology is not developed fast enough the life of the North Sea oil and gas industry could be shortened, a leading boss warned yesterday.
Optimus is proving that oil and gas engineering isn't a man's world with its latest influx of graduates. The consultancy has taken on two female graduates and offered a job to a third chemical engineering student for when she graduates next summer.
A special environmental forum for green champions in the oil and gas industry is to be held in Aberdeen next month.
Nearly 200 oil and gas leaders visited the Aberdeen base of Aker Solutions yesterday to learn more about its new technology.
Energy firm GDF Suez Exploration and Production (E&P) UK is sponsoring a course at Aberdeen University to boost oil and gas education.
Pipeline engineering specialist Stats Group will this week outline the difficulties in recruiting key staff at a major energy recruitment show.
When recent research indicated that the oil and gas industry was facing the prospect of finding 120,000 new recruits in the north-east in the next 10 years, it highlighted the scale of the task facing those on the frontline.
A current shortage of ROV pilot technicians could provide a lucrative and exciting opportunity for a change of career, according to the world's leading ROV pilot technician training centre, as the demand for skilled workers continues to increase in the global oil and gas industry.
More than 300 pupils from across the north-east gathered yesterday to find out about the range of careers in the oil and gas industry.
More than 300 senior school pupils will discover the wide range of careers open to them in the oil and gas industry when Energise Your Future returns to Aberdeen tomorrow. Organised and run by industry skills body Opito, the event is at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre.
A student from the Robert Gordon University has been awarded with the Society of Petroleum Engineers' SPE Star Fellowship Award for the North Sea Region for 2012-13.
A team of former Aberdeen Grammar School pupils are to compete in a global F1 car design competition in Abu Dhabi later this month.
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Demand from school leavers for careers in engineering has shot up, according to Aberdeen's two universities.
Aberdeen-born mechanical engineering student Joseph Kennedy joined 90 Scottish students travelling the world to work with some of the top blue chip firms this summer.
North-east apprentices picked up awards at Score Group in Peterhead after scoring top marks in a national mechanical engineering competition.
North Sea oil and gas exploration and production company Bridge Energy made its debut on the stock market today, with first day trading valuing it at £75million.
Aberdeen's Energy Institute Young Professional Network (EIYPN) is hosting its inaugural black tie event next month.