By Ricky Thomson, decommissioning manager, Offshore Energies UK
Successful removal of platforms weighing upwards of 30,000 tonnes is taking the decommissioning industry to new levels of high-tech excellence with projects around the UK coastal shelf, but that does not reduce the challenge.
As the daughter of a fiercely independent female entrepreneur, I was raised with the genuine belief that my dreams were within my reach, regardless of gender.
Not every conversation with an oil executive involves false teeth for sheep and a career break writing a novel but Simon Thomson is not your average oil-company boss.
Scotland will not have the skilled workforce it needs to meet renewable-energy targets for 2020 unless changes are made, education experts said yesterday.
IT WAS in April 1990 that Graeme Coutts walked into Expro Group in Aberdeen "to do a favour in between jobs" for the base manager at that time, Glyn Williams, who today heads private equity firm Epi-v
