Full steam ahead at Ocean Installer
It's exciting times for Martin Sisley, managing director of Ocean Installer.
It's exciting times for Martin Sisley, managing director of Ocean Installer.
Job hunters are invited to AMEC's Excellence on Show event at Hilton Treetops Hotel on Monday.
North-east engineering company Alfred Cheyne Engineering said yesterday it had recruited a record intake of Modern Apprentices.
More than 500,000 offshore oil and gas workers in 40 countries have been trained to health and safety standards set by Opito.
With new projects coming on stream and platforms like Kittiwake producing oil and gas for years longer than expected, the offshore industry needs new skilled workers now more than ever.
People move overseas for a number of reasons namely to experience new cultures, challenge themselves, live in a warmer climate and/or better their income.
Mechanical engineering students at Banff and Buchan College visited EnerMech in Aberdeen as part of their course.
Expert advice on doing business in the emerging giant Brazil will be available to oil and gas companies thanks to a series of workshops which are to return due to popular demand.
Engineers in the modern-day energy industry are well aware their work can take them to many places they certainly wouldn't choose as a family holiday destination.
The British Science Festival's main sponsors - BP and Shell - said they were delighted Aberdeen had been picked to host the event again.
A new Masters degree at Robert Gordon University's Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment in Aberdeen has become the first of its kind to receive accreditation from a leading professional standards body.
More than 140 students from about 50 countries converged on the Granite City to take part in The Robert Gordon University's Aberdeen Business School Leadership Week.
Remotely operated vehicle (ROV) training is driving activity at Fort William's Underwater Centre - and not just in the UK.
The summer holidays are nearly here and to make sure the school term ends on a high note we have three iPad2s to give away.
Aberdeen Drilling School had its busiest month in its 30-year history this year and the demand for training does not look set to subside.
ITF is inviting technology developers to come forward with innovative solutions for enhanced sub-basalt imaging and novel borehole seismic sources, with the potential for successful proposals to receive up to 100% funding.
NASA is famous for the US programme to send man to the moon. However, oil workers are now also able to use one of its world-class facilities in Houston for offshore training. Ian Forsyth finds out more
This month, Maersk Training will formally open its new purpose-designed and built fire ground facility at Portlethen.
Research by the US Energy Department (DOE) has found that the injection of a carbon dioxide and nitrogen mixture into a methane hydrate formation on Alaska's North Slope can produce a constant natural gas flow.
Saudi Aramco has launched a strategic research programme designed to push the frontier of oil recovery from carbonate reservoirs, notably the gigantic but now ageing Ghawar field onshore Saudi Arabia.
Petrofac Training Services (PTS) and Raytheon have developed Hi-Con survival training for the Johnson Space Center site.
Budding engineers from the north-east are set to jet off to Orlando, Florida, this month to take part in an international ROV (remotely operated vehicle) design challenge.
This summer, a hovercraft will set out on a research voyage from Svalbard to the North Pole in the first and northernmost polar expedition undertaken by such technology.
Two students have hopped across the pond to gain international experience in the energy industry.
Had it not been for a career in the oil industry, 27-year-old Graeme Falconer, from Garthdee, would have liked to be an astronaut.