74% of young people across key international energy markets would consider a career in the energy sector but highlight the perceived requirement for technical qualifications and lack of understanding of opportunities as preventative. With talent acquisition continuing to be an industry challenge, the global research project ‘Energy Sector Entry and the Perceived Barriers’ was commissioned […]

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The Marine Science & Technology Sector Council continued their tour of the region with the most recent member forum being held at Cefas in Lowestoft, kindly hosted by our Vice Chair Jon Rees. It was great to see so many of the group joining us as well as new members ARC Marine® and Waves Group […]

Thanks to generous sponsorship from the Dudgeon Community Fund, operated by Equinor, and distributed by the Norfolk Community Foundation, EEEGR and Skills for Energy were able to offer more than 70 chemistry, physics and engineering students an insight into hydrogen and the part it plays in our energy mix. Through EEEGR (East of England Energy […]

The phrase ‘you can’t be it, if you can’t see it’ is often coined when we talk about enticing young minds into our industry. Thanks to generous sponsorship from OPITO, we were able, through Skills for Energy, to offer 200 children from three local primary schools a chance to enjoy two mornings of offshore wind […]

ASCO, a leading global logistics and materials management provider, has appointed William “Bill” Draper as General Manager of its Teesworks operations, as the site prepares for its first steel delivery. With over 34 years of experience working on the River Tees, Bill will manage the team at Steel River Quay, on the south bank of […]

M4 Inflow Control System Enhances Density-driven Flow Technology to Supercharge Reservoir Performance TAQA, an international company headquartered in Dharan, Saudi Arabia, and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, offers leading well solutions for the energyindustry, has introduced its next-generation inflow control system, enabling operators to optimize reservoir performance while sustainably managing fluid production. The M4 Inflow Control System […]

Aurora Energy Services (Aurora) has launched an Integrated Services offering for the oil and gas and renewables sectors and will recruit 30 project delivery specialists in the next six months to provide a “nimble cost effective” full lifecycle service. The Aberdeen division will be headed up by brothers Josh and Kane Winton, experienced project managers […]

Equinor’s overall long-term safety trend continues to move in a positive direction, but the total number of injuries has increased somewhat by the end of the third quarter, measured over the previous twelve months. At the end of the third quarter of 2024 the serious incident frequency per million hours worked (SIF) was 0.3, on […]

North Star, a leading service operations vessel (SOV) operator in the UK’s renewables industry, has activated a major industry collaboration aimed at solving one of the floating wind’s most pressing challenges: the delivery of high-performance operations and maintenance ships tailored for floating offshore wind farms. The firm has signed memorandum of understanding with MO4, Principle […]