Advanced marine technologies solutions company Nautronix is set for its best year yet having secured further orders to supply acoustic positioning systems to American-owned super-drillships currently on order.
The Technology Strategy Board said yesterday it would invest up to £1million in feasibility studies to stimulate innovation in the oil and gas sector and speed up the development of new products.
As part of Subsea UK's ongoing engagement programme to attract young people into the sector, engineering students were given a slice of subsea action at a pizza evening held to highlight the industry's career opportunities.
A Fort William subsea diver-training school and equipment-trial centre will play a key role in the development of Angola's oil and gas industry in the coming years.
A group of nine girls from Mintlaw Academy in Aberdeenshire have been finding out how women are playing an increasingly key role in offshore engineering.
Britain's first Industrial Doctorate Centre in Renewable Energy (IDCORE) is seeking UK-based engineering companies to provide engineering doctorate students with projects to work on.
Intertek said yesterday it had won more than £5million of contracts at home and abroad for oil and gas technical inspection, training and staffing through its Moody operation based in Aberdeen.
Operators and contractors need to work more collaboratively on skills initiatives rather than being short-termist and buying in experience, a young professionals debate in Aberdeen heard.
Primary school children from Caithness and North Sutherland experienced real life in the marine energy industry when they got to meet the head of a tidal energy developer.
Although oil and gas plays a huge part in our everyday lives, from fuelling our cars to being used to make plastic bottles, there is more to energy than you might think.
New entrants to the energy industry will debate how the challenges and expectations of the oil and gas and renewable energy industries are being met as part of an introductory course to the energy industry.
ITF, the oil and gas industry technology facilitator, said yesterday Petrofac and Siemens had joined the other "high profile energy players" helping its work to tackle global challenges.