Findings of major North Sea skills study to be revealed
The findings of a major report to address any potential North Sea skills shortages will be revealed next month.
The findings of a major report to address any potential North Sea skills shortages will be revealed next month.
Safety skills are expected to take centre stage at this years’ OPITO Global event in Malaysia later this year.
International recruitment firm Atlas Professionals has launched a new drilling assessment designed to help offshore employers’ upskill staff.
More than 100 north-east high school pupils got to experience the life of an offshore diver, or even an ROV driver, at Subsea Expo 2018 yesterday.
Events are to be held next week in an effort to encourage more young women into the oil and gas industry.
Over the past 12 months, the energy sector has taken stock looking at how it can become more flexible to appeal to today’s offshore worker within the current cost constrained environment. Industry is also questioning what the training requirements will be for the roles of tomorrow.
A former Peterhead Academy pupil who followed in his family’s footsteps into the oil and gas industry despite its recent woes has scooped a prestigious award.
School age students were shown the future work possibilities within the oil and gas industry through an Energise Your Future (EYF) programme.
Global oil and gas industry safety, standards and workforce development organisation Opito has named John McDonald as its new chief executive.
Building relationships with schools is “absolutely key” if oil gas companies are to harness the best of local talent, according to OPITO interim chief executive John McDonald.
Skills development body OPITO has called on the US industry to bring the Gulf of Mexico in line with global safety standards following the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
A group of Malaysian onshore oil and gas workers have become the first to pass safety training that conforms to new standards set out by industry skills body Opito.
The North Sea oil and gas industry is looking to a football-style loan transfer scheme to resolve skills shortages after it emerges from a long and brutal downturn.
The legacy of oil and gas training doyen David Doig will live on through a charitable fund, his widow has revealed.
The interim chief executive of Opito told MPs yesterday the UK Government’s new apprenticeship levy will have “unacceptable” implications for Scotland’s oil and gas sector.
The life and work of former Opito chief executive David Doig will be celebrated in Aberdeen later this month.
A former trainee car mechanic from Norwich who switched careers to join the UK oil and gas sector at the start of the global downturn, is on track for success after scooping the sector’s Apprentice of the Year Award.
An oil and gas skills organisation has warned employers may shift apprenticeship training to England after the Scottish Government revealed it would not ring-fence funds allocated via the new UK-wide Apprenticeship Levy.
Oil and gas business leaders have demanded to know how the Scottish Government plans to spend the £220million a year that will start to be collected from large employers next year.
Oil and gas skills body Opito is leading an initiative to make more of the training courses it approves available online.
Workforce denied the opportunity to move into offshore renewables unless they undertake what they claim is unnecessary, expensive safety training. Jeremy Cresswell investigates.
Two oil and gas industry bodies have called for the UK Government to delay the introduction of the £3billion apprenticeship levy until 2018.
Oil and gas skills body Opito has called for clarity over the impact the £3billion Apprenticeship Levy on the industry after the UK government set out how the controversial tax will work in England.
Falck Safety Services UK has invested a five figure sum in new training equipment at its Dyce facility to broaden its customer base.
An oil major has won approval for a workforce competency management system from an industry skills organisation.