While three out of four oil and gas firms are planning to grow their business by 2015, the skills pipeline remains a major concern for over 60% of energy CEOs, according to human resources specialists, PwC.
Statoil and ABB have struck a deal to develope a subsea power grid for long distances and deep waters that could save hundreds of millions of pounds for future costs.
Robert Gordon University and Russian oilfield educational and engineering services company OILTEAM have announced a partnership worth more than £1.2million to train the next generation of Russia’s offshore energy professionals.
Amec’s Europe group president, John Pearson, warned a packed conference hall at Offshore Europe yesterday that North Sea industry needs to forge a step change initiative for technology.
EnQuest is to partner with with two specialist companies in its ongoing efforts to extend the life of its Thistle North Sea platform.
Oil and gas companies should do more to entice young talent into the industry from an early age – but so should the public education sector, believes the Scottish Energy Minister.
A new global centre for energy research and education is being set up in the north-east of Scotland.
Shell announced a new intake of engineering students – including young women – at the exhibition yesterday.
Exclusive: A wave energy firm aiding the fight against drug smugglers off the USA coast hopes its technology could help save millions for the oil and gas industry.
Down hole tool producer Churchill Drilling Tools has secured an initial £850,000 contract with a major Middle Eastern operator for the supply of its dart activated DAV MX bypass valve in the region.
A pioneering wave energy initiative by Marine Harvest could transform the way Scottish fish farms are powered.
Zombies, comedy, explosions and hip-hop dance will converge on Aberdeen this month for a special 20-day programme of events, workshops and shows to celebrate its 20th birthday.
Aberdeen may be synonymous with the oil and gas boom but for many young people the opportunities in the lucrative and ever-changing energy sector can seem as distant as an offshore rig.
How we're going to keep our transport going and keep ourselves warm in the future is a topic for discussion that can so easily become overheated - no pun intended - because of the range of sometimes diametrically opposing views on issues including good old climate change, peak oil, shale gas, impact on food supplies and so on and so forth.
American company Sapphire Energy, a world leader in algae-based green oil production, working with the Linde Group, are to commercialise a new industrial-scale conversion technology needed to upgrade algae biomass into oil.
An ageing field in the Middle East is getting a production leg-up through the use of solar panels developed by an American company to help extend oil recovery.
University of Adelaide researchers have developed a new nanomaterial that could help reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power stations by behaving like a sponge, it is said.
NEL has invested £250,000 in a new erosive flow centre at its Glasgow base. The facility is the first in the UK to offer the complete range of erosive flow services, including flow testing, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), operation and performance assessment.
A city's suburbs could hold the solution to dwindling fuel supplies by producing enough energy to power residents' cars and even top up power resources, pioneering new research has found.
The operators of the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant may dump radioactive water into the ocean once its toxicity is brought within legal limits, it has emerged.
US company Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) says its PowerBouy technology has the potential to redefine power platforms in the offshore oil and gas sector.
GA Drilling, an SME located in Bratislava, Slovakia and London, has recently completed a three-month feasibility project to investigate the potential of a continuous casing while drilling technology called ContiCase.
Scotland’s struggling fishing fleet could be given a new lease of life servicing offshore wind turbines around the country.
Vestas Wind Systems, the Danish turbine maker that’s been unprofitable for two years, will focus on completing a restructuring program to restore earnings, incoming chief executive officer Anders Runevad said.
An Argyll grandmother who went to the United Nations to challenge the UK government’s windfarm policy has claimed a notable victory.