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Scotland is leading the world in training for the oil and gas sector.
Doing us proud
A £1.4 million grant has been awarded to the universities of Aberdeen and Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to help develop the East African country’s gas reserves.
A three-year programme will see the academics work together on developing the new energy sector, following recent discoveries of significant gas reserves.
They will also assist in developing local human resource capabilities as Tanzania currently relies heavily on skills and expertise from abroad.
The institutions also aim to promote research and knowledge sharing, as well as inaugurating engineering, geo-sciences, business and law.
Heads in the cloud
With Tinterweb connectivity vital to the oil and gas industry, it’s more good news from network infrastructure supplier SSE Enterprise Telecoms, which is connecting with brightsolid and Tampnet to improve connectivity in the North East.
When the oil price does finally rise the plan is to deliver an enhanced speed and bandwidth to the network in Aberdeen and potentially facilities further afield.
brightsolid is a cloud and application hosting specialist that operates data centres in north east Scotland and services, among others, the oil industry.
SSE will connect the Aberdeen data centre to its own 100GB network using Ciena’s network platform.
All this and nobody has to draw a big dog!
Ahead of the crowd
New international research has confirmed what we always knew: Scotland is the planetary leader in training for the oil and gas sector.
The Scottish Enterprise survey of 260 senior industry figures across the globe, shows that 74% of the men in the most expensive suits oil money can buy, believe Scotland is one of the world’s leading training grounds for the industry.
A similar figure, 71%, are of the view that, from businesses employing 2.2 million people, it is Scottish employees who are some of the most dependable in the sector.
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has welcomed the findings, adding:
“This poll comes at a time of change for the global energy sector. Turbulence in the oil markets is leading to some uncertainty about future work flows, but these results reinforce the value Scottish businesses deliver to partners, particularly in deepwater and offshore exploration areas.
More than two thirds go further, endorsing Scotland as a provider of training and development opportunities. And a similar number also commend Scottish expertise as either important on a day-to-day basis, or essential in achieving a company’s overarching objectives.”