The UKโs Climate Change Committee published its report on the impacts of net zero on the workforce last week, but the energy sector is already acutely aware of the challenges the energy transition poses to its future prosperity.
A crunch on the ability of firms to find skills for oil and gas and renewable energy are a โsignificant threat,โ Aberdeen business leaders have warned.
By By Michael Diamond, Managing Director Scotland, Norman Broadbent Group
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Aberdeenโs ongoing transition of decarbonising the oil and gas industry and investing in the development of sustainable green energies has the potential to inject new life into the city, restoring its position on the world stage as an economic powerhouse.
News this month that Cromarty and the Firth of Forth have been chosen to become Scotlandโs green freeports was unquestionably a bitter pill to swallow for the energy sector in North-east Scotland.
Ahead of a skills summit in Aberdeen this week, employment experts have assessed why Scotland and the wider UK has woes around attracting enough workers in renewable energy.
By Andy Williamson, vice president Energy Transition at OPITO
Floating offshore wind (FOW) is the new great hope, the next big breakthrough, in renewable energy. It is a huge worldwide growth area with transformative potential for our people, our communities, and our national wealth and wellbeing.
By Luis Batalla - Head of Decommissioning, Repsol Sinopec Resources UK
Globally the energy landscape is changing. It is undergoing significant transition to meet energy demands whilst reducing carbon emissions โ a difficult balancing act.
By Richard Knox, Managing Director, Verlume (Formerly known as EC-OG)
With the theme of โOceans of Opportunityโ, the much-anticipated Subsea Expo conference later this month will showcase the cutting-edge technologies and innovations of the sector. The UKโs subsea market produces some of the worldโs most advanced technology for harsh and hard to reach environments. As the energy transition accelerates, there will be a significant opportunity for the transfer of this technology into growing clean energy sectors.
The Energy Institute has said the majority of UK workers plan to train for net zero in the coming year, but concerns persist on cost, timing, and availability of courses.
Achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 is an ambitious and deliverable goal, but on current trajectory it is unlikely to be realised without rapid acceleration of key energy transition projects.
A leading skills body is warning the oil and gas sector it needs to act swiftly or risk losing thousands of engineers capable of delivering the energy transition.
Leading figures from the North Seaโs oil and gas industry will take centre stage at the launch of a key industry report next month to discuss how changing skills requirements will impact on the industry over the next six years.
Recent press on a skills shortage for the oil and gas industry prompted me to share my views on graduate training and recruitment. It is focused on my own discipline Chemical (Process) Engineering, a key skill for the oil and gas industry.
New โT-Levelsโ are to be introduced as part of a fresh bid to give technical training equal standing to academic education, the Chancellor has confirmed.
Firms are facing an โunprecedentedโ shortage of skilled workers, with the threat that thousands of vacancies will be left unfilled, a new report has warned.
The number of posts left unfilled has increased by 130% since 2011, according to the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
Oil and gas skills body Opito has agreed to work more closely with the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) to avoid duplication of effort.
The two engineering skills bodies have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to deliver to their members a โcommon menu of skills solutionsโ, to collaborate on the collation of industry data around manpower trends and skills forecasting, as well as the creation of skills programmes that meet common industry needs.
The collaboration will also build on work undertaken to date around the industryโs modern apprenticeship scheme.