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Two companies with a vested interest in promoting careers in oil and gas to university students have worked together to provide them with a real taste of life on a North Sea production platform.
Two companies with a vested interest in promoting careers in oil and gas to university students have worked together to provide them with a real taste of life on a North Sea production platform.
More than 1,000 primary school pupils around "Surf City" have been taking part in a four-week hands-on project involving subsea firm Technip to help find future engineers.
US firm Rock Solid Images (RSI), formerly Aberdeen-based Offshore Hydrocarbon Mapping, said today it had made a promising start to 2012.
The first minister is to invite some of the world's most talented young innovators to Scotland to see the energy research being undertaken.
National Science and Engineering Week arrives in Aberdeen next month.
Two companies hoping to promote careers in oil and gas to university students worked together to provide a real taste of life on a North Sea drilling platform.
Up to £50million of funding could be available to firms that can develop the technology to help the biggest challenges in the oil and gas industry.
Plexus Holdings said yesterday that Tullow Oil had signed up as an additional consulting partner to its joint industry project (JIP) to develop and commercialise a new and safer subsea wellhead.
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Graduates are part of the life-blood of the energy industry, not least in the subsea sector, be it in renewables or oil and gas.
FALCK Nutec said yesterday it was seeing growing demand for its courses as the energy industry continued to rise to the challenge of installation-emergency training.
NAUTRONIX has conducted a successful trial of its acoustic positioning and communication system, NASNet, for Cairn Energy, offshore Greenland, proving its viability and the associated Nautronix ADS signalling technology capabilities in the Arctic.
GOING into 2012 we are at a complex and challenging crossroads.
WELCOME to 2012 to our Young Energy readers. As it is a new year, we, with the help of Shell, have decided to start a new feature - an A to Z of Energy.
THEY call it a tram but most of you would think of it as a bendi-bus as it has rubber wheels, even though the early prototypes are double-ended.
A NEW initiative to help oil and gas firms make the most of MA engineering and energy students has been launched by Aberdeen University.
College student Fergus Stewart from Falkirk is top of the class after winning a coveted oil and gas industry award from OPITO.
MAERSK Oil has teamed up with Siemens of Germany to develop and build turbines for the Danish company's novel TriGen clean power generation technology, which could be used in association with enhanced oil or gas recovery.
WE REGULARLY report on joint industry projects (JIPs) launched through the North Sea's Industry Technology Facilitator, ITF, but what happens to those technologies once the initial project is completed?
MINTRA Training Portal (MTP) has appointed three new directors to support its growth.
SKILLS specialist Atlas, of Aberdeen, said yesterday it had secured international e-learning contract wins worth a total of more than £3.6million during the past year.
Mechanical engineering firm EnerMech, of Aberdeen, said yesterday that it expected annual profits to hit £10million this year and rise to £20million in 2012.
COSALT chairman David Ross has warned shareholders that the firm faces imminent collapse if they do not accept his 0.1p-a-share offer for the business by December 20.
FINDING the right career path can be a full-time job in itself these days, especially given the current financial climate.
IT IS often said the oil and gas industry is suffering from an ageing workforce, resulting in a skills shortage.