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A scholarship that commemorates the victims of the world’s worst offshore oil disaster is set to mark its own landmark 10th anniversary. OPITO’s Piper Alpha Memorial Safety Scholarship was launched a decade ago to provide a fitting legacy for the 167 men who tragically lost their lives in the explosion on the Piper Alpha oil platform in the North Sea on the night of 6 July 1988....
Leading figures from the North Sea’s oil and gas industry will take centre stage at the launch of a key industry report - The Skills Landscape 2019-2025 - to discuss how changing skills requirements will impact on the industry over the next six years....
A report into UK oil and gas workforce dynamics by global energy skills body OPITO and Robert Gordon University’s (RGU) Oil and Gas Institute indicates that more than 40,000 new people will need to be recruited into the industry over the next 20 years, including 10,000 in posts that do not exist today....
New technologies and ways of working are developing all the time and so too are the expectations of the younger employee. At the core of any successful business is the ability to build and retain a skilled and motivated workforce. For some companies, keeping staff feeling fulfilled is proving much more of a challenge in today’s modern 24/7, digital society compared to previous generations....
First Chinese training provider accredited to deliver world-leading safety standards. International oil and gas skills organisation, OPITO has expanded its global footprint of accredited training providers with the approval of the first company in China....
For the first time, workers anywhere in the world will be able to work towards vocational qualifications which will be recognised by the global oil and gas industry. Training standards body, OPITO International, has developed global technical standards and a qualifications framework which will help meet current and future skills demands in oil and gas and improve competence in the operations and maintenance activities associated with the extracti...
A new standard in offshore safety is to be trialled in the UK sector of the North Sea. which aims to advance the critical role of elected safety representatives (ESRs) in minimising the risk of accidents and improving safety....
Oil and gas skills body OPITO says more than half a million offshore oil and gas workers in 40 countries have been trained to OPITO safety and competency standards. The industry-funded body has unveiled a series of statistics which demonstrate the organisation's transformation over the last six years and its new global position as the safety standard of choice....
New research has revealed that an improved focus on competence is required if the oil and gas industry is to deliver a step-change in safety skills and performance. Over 65% of respondents believe that the current focus on compliance in companies could lead to complacency....
An impressive line-up of leading oil and gas industry figures will take to the podium for skills and training standards body OPITO’s second annual Safety and Competency Conference in Abu Dhabi on 22 November 2011....