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Let’s take a cue from American writer Mark Twain, who famously found himself having to debunk reports of his own funeral.
Yes, we’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: news of the death of Scotland’s oil and gas industry ‘has been greatly exaggerated’.
In fact, this month the UK Continental Shelf Workforce Dynamics Review revealed the North Sea will still be producing one million barrels of oil every day by the year 2035.
But it added this can only happen if the industry continually evolves.
According to the report, which was carried out by Opito in partnership with Aberdeen-based Robert Gordon University’s Oil and Gas Institute, over the next 20 years no fewer than 40,000 new jobs will have to be created in the oil and gas industry.
This figure includes around 10,000 brand new roles in emerging areas of expertise, including robotics and remote operations.
Positions must also be created to meet the growing demands of digital technologies in the carbon energy workplace – with many firms investing in ever more advanced machinery and software, they have greater need for employees with advanced skill sets and capabilities in areas such as data science and analytics.
There is also a growing demand for scientists and managers who can collaborate with remote teams and make data-driven decisions off-site.
Bear in mind, too, that with more than 80,000 workers due to retire or leave the sector by 2035 this means greater opportunities for new starts to enter the sector.
Another consequence is that many oil and gas operators are now looking to adopt new strategies to cope with this looming skills gap.
These include training and upskilling young employees, which is great news if you’re just starting out in your career.
Mid-level workers, meanwhile, can also be trained and upskilled to fill the roles left behind by retiring high-level workers and executives.
Best of all, if you’re considering transferring skills from an entirely different sector, companies will also be proactively recruiting from outside of the industry.
The oil and gas industry has and always will be fundamentally about projects – delivering them on time, within a predetermined budget and scope.
But all such projects depend on people – if you’d like to be a person of interest for oil and gas companies, sort out your CV with our handy guide and get on to s1jobs for all the latest vacancies.