Political stability and remaining deposits continue to make the North Sea an investment target for top energy companies, claims Petrofac.
The oilfield services group says it has seen a growing demand for skilled employees in the region – and recently had to expand its training centre to cope with demand.
The comments come just days after industry body Oil and Gas UK said the North Sea was set for record investment this year.
“I think there’s a lot of people trying to get into oil and gas in the North Sea because they can see the industry is on a resurgence,” Petrofac Training managing director Paul Groves told Energy Voice.
“The challenge that we all have is that they don’t know what they need to do to build the skills and the knowledge to give themselves a chance of getting a job offshore.”
“In the North Sea there is still a lot of barrels, there’s some new frontiers opening around Shetland, the West of Ireland looks very interesting at the moment so I think there’s a real push to take the North Sea to another level.”
Watch the full interview with Paul Groves below:
