Mintlaw team is Scottish victor in international ROV-Mate contest
The Scottish heat of a grand battle of the subsea robots has just taken place in the swimming pool of Robert Gordon University.
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RGU launches judging call for ROV schools competition
The UK’s only remote operated vehicle (ROV) challenge for school children is looking for judges as it counts down days to regional finals.
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You can read the full Press and Journal Young Energy supplement, with even more useful information, links and guides to entering the oil and gas sector, here.
There is more than one route into energy, say job experts
The oil and gas industry will continue to provide dynamic and diverse career opportunities for budding professionals for decades to come. This was the core message at an interactive careers presentation held at Harlaw Academy in Aberdeen recently.
Explaining the skills gap
In spite of its huge success, and high wages, the North Sea industry is struggling to attract fresh talent at almost every level.
Ask the expert: James McCallum
I chose the oil and gas industry after watching an animated Shell television commercial depicting a day in the life of the oil platform Brent Charlie, engulfed in the huge seas surrounding it. I thought that would be an appropriately adventurous and exciting thing to do for a 20-year-old starting out on the career trail.
School students show Big Oil how to communicate
Big Oil has always found it hard to communicate with the public. The relationship is stand-offish and most of us are only interested in the cost of filling the family car and warming the home.
Ask the expert: Geoff Holmes
Geoff Holmes is chief executive of Talisman Sinopec Energy UK
Ask the expert: John Pearson
You must do something you enjoy, so you need to figure out what that is. That might be working with people, being creative, doing detailed work, being outside.You need to get as much advice as possible, so make sure you ask.
Fran a genius at bringing entertainment to science
When she took on the role as lead science presenter alongside the boundlessly energetic duo Dick and Dom on their Absolute Genius TV show, Fran Scott knew she had found the perfect job. The 31-year-old, Halifax-raised expert speaks to Young Energy about how she got where she is today, and how she brings entertainment to science
Ask the expert: Colette Cohen
Colette Cohen is senior vice-president for the UK and Netherlands with Centrica Energy E&P.
Joe Macinnis: The man from inner space
Canadian Dr Joe MacInnis was the first scientist to dive at the North Pole – that was in 1976.
Just where might the energy sector take you?
Greetings school students, especially those of you staying on and who are faced with tough decisions as to what Highers and, for some, A-Levels, to study in sixth form.
Oil jobs are a growing world of opportunity
Oil and gas production is a truly international industry, offering career opportunities on virtually every continent around the world, writes Nexen's Archie Kennedy.
Careers can takeoff as an apprentice helicopter engineer
Today’s tough job market can be a daunting prospect for young people, with unemployment affecting upwards of 20% of 16-24 year olds according to the Office for National Statistics.
Why women can also thrive in energy
Jeanette Forbes is living proof that women can have a successful career in the oil and gas sector.
Online resource the place to start in looking for oil industry career
Just outside Aberdeen is the epicentre of the UK’s subsea industry, Westhill; otherwise known as Surf City even though it’s five miles inland.
Students to test mettle in ROV competition
On April 3, teams from 13 senior schools across Scotland will gather at The Robert Gordon University's sports facility to determine who goes forward to the next level of the hugely successful ROV MATE Competition.
Online interactive energy discovery, it’s just a click away
You don't have to be in Manchester to enjoy its resources. Shetland or Skye or anywhere would be just as good, so long as you have web access.
Energy Alphabet: U was for Uranium…
Sorry students all, but our long running A-Z of Energy competition has drawn to a close.
Students hope for race win with sixth car
A team of north-east students are preparing to take pole position at one of the greatest race tracks in the world later this year.
Race looking to spark STEM excellence in schools
Sisters are doing it for themselves in a national engineering competition which challenges pupils to design, build and race an electric car.
Young Energy: Send us uranium stories and win an iPad
OK, here we go, our next challenge is "U for Uranium".
American astronomer finds river of energy in space
An American astronomer has discovered a most incredible phenomenon in deep space . . . an apparently never-before-seen river of hydrogen.
Not quite magic: From plastic plague to liquid fuel
Researchers in India have developed a relatively low-temperature process to convert certain kinds of plastic waste into liquid fuel as a way to reuse discarded plastic bags.