North-east consultancy Assurance of Learning snaps up rival ITB
Training and management consultancy firm Assurance of Learning (AoL) has snapped up a north-east counterpart for a six figure sum.
Training and management consultancy firm Assurance of Learning (AoL) has snapped up a north-east counterpart for a six figure sum.
Oilfield service firm Petrofac has taken delivery of a second freefall lifeboat at its marine training centre in Aberdeen following an investment of £200,000.
A redundancy deal for the crew of an Odfjell Drilling rig should be the “benchmark” for the North Sea, according to a union boss.
Students and graduates facing up to the challenges of finding work in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic have an opportunity to gain career advice at an online event next week.
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.
Global skills organisation OPITO has launched a new initiative to help seafarers make a move into the oil and gas industry.
Scottish energy firm SSE has launched a pilot jobs scheme to help recruit people into the renewables industry.
The acceleration of digitalisation during the coronavirus pandemic has brought into sharp focus the opportunities for digital technical training within the oil and gas sector.
Two offshore energy sector training firms in the 3T Energy Group have been picked to provide services to Total E&P UK.
The uncertainty caused by the outbreak of Covid-19 has touched every part of the North Sea oil and gas sector, not least businesses that supply the survival training the industry needs to keep ticking over.
Survivex will start running wind industry safety training courses after making a £100,000 investment in its base in Aberdeen.
The North Sea oil and gas industry is poised to benefit from a new £4.5 million scheme to support the retention of essential skills during and after the Covid-19 crisis.
Offshore survival trainer Survivex said it had created two more jobs for instructors after a £140,000 investment in a new training centre of excellence for drilling and well control.
Sparrows Group has been dedicated to improving the standards of offshore lifting operations since the inception of the UK North Sea oil industry and has led the way with its industry standard for offshore crane operators.
The boss at 3T Energy Group said the training and technology organisation had “nailed” the integration of Aberdeen-based survival training firm Survivex.
A new resource for quickly upskilling new recruits to the oil and gas sector is getting better and better, and even better.
There have been big changes for Falck Safety Services, now RelyOn Nutec, since it was bought over last summer.
Survivex is reporting the highest numbers of people through its doors since before the 2014 oil price crash.
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.
UK government funding to help train new recruits in the maritime sector has been doubled to £30million per year.
Step Change in Safety (SCiS) has released a report designed to enchance safety, standardise common practices and saves time and money to the wider UK oil and gas industry.
Some three years ago, I chaired a Commission on Developing Scotland’s Young Workforce.
Two Aberdeenshire firms are offering enhanced training services to businesses operating across a range of high-risk industries.
The downturn in the North Sea oil industry could prove the answer to the police's long-term recruitment headache in the north-east.
Professional courses to help plan for the future of North Sea oil and gas decommissioning are to be offered in Aberdeen and London.