The buoyancy of the oil and gas industry has helped the north-east buck the trend of slow economic growth, according to development agency Aberdeen City and Shire Economic Future (Acsef).
The chief executive of Oil and Gas UK, Malcolm Webb, will open the new Aset International Oil and Gas Training Academy on Wednesday, March 7, which has relocated to Aberdeen College's Altens Centre.
ESS Support Services Worldwide, the Aberdeen-based provider of integrated catering, hotel and facility-management services offshore, said yesterday it had won its first contract in the Netherlands.
The good times of early to mid-2008, when most oil companies were benefiting from the seemingly relentless rise in oil prices, are now a distant memory for many.
