All Skills


New safety training standard for oil & gas industry

Added: 18 Apr 2012

London – A new oil and gas industry training standard, designed to improve safety at offshore works…

Engineering skills in high demand as infrastructure investment hits record level

Added: 12 Mar 2012

London - Demand for engineering skills is continuing to defy the otherwise weak jobs market, buoyed…

UK manufacturing good ... but at the wrong things

Added: 12 Mar 2012

London – Amid the coalition government’s drive – or, as its business secretary Vince Cable describe…

Stop-start water cycle blocks technology flow

Added: 8 Mar 2012

London – ?After a slow start to the current Asset Management Plan - AMP5 (2010-15) - suppliers have…

Apprentices success story to end?

Added: 8 Mar 2012

London – T?ime is running out for the Tees Valley Apprenticeship Programme (TVAP) in the North East…

Skills shortages are a number one concern

Added: 13 Feb 2012

Skills shortages are now the no. 1 issue for the process industries worldwide, industry leaders rep…

BASF

Skills overhaul boosts productivity at BASF

Added: 6 Feb 2012

BASF has reported significant improvements in productivity following a National Skills Academy Proc…

BP increasing graduate recruitment by 50%

Added: 2 Feb 2012

London – BP is increasing its annual UK graduate recruitment by 50%, to nearly 250 graduates, in 20…

UK chemical engineering course applications up 12%

Added: 31 Jan 2012

London – Chemical engineering degree courses have attracted 11,890 applications, 12.4% more than th…

3D software helps Aberdeen start-up

Added: 26 Jan 2012

Aberdeen, UK – When Aberdeen-based Liberty Drilling Equipment (LDE) was founded in October 2010, it…

System integrators in demand in India

Added: 25 Jan 2012

London – Manufacturing companies in India are increasingly turning to system integrators to impleme…

GAMBICA details 'Automated Britain' event

Added: 24 Jan 2012

London – GAMBICA and Intellect have issued more detail about their jointly organised conference eve…

Three big issues in 2012

Added: 23 Jan 2012

London – In the run-up to the recent holiday period I got to quiz a good number of UK engineers, fr…

Oil & gas employers 'should look to recruit from other industries'

Added: 11 Jan 2012

London – Companies in the oil & gas industry will have to take on many extra staff in 2012 to meet …

"It looks all right to me"

Added: 11 Jan 2012

London – Skills shortages, it seems, are seriously impacting the quality of products and services a…

Autumn Statement: "Government has eventually listened to industry”

Added: 6 Dec 2011

London – The UK chancellor’s Autumn Statement includes a number of measures in areas including envi…

Oil & gas group urges competency ahead of compliance

Added: 29 Nov 2011

London – The oil and gas companies must focus more on competence, rather than compliance, if they a…

BP engineer heads Oil & Gas UK awards list

Added: 7 Nov 2011

Aberdeen, UK – In the recent Oil & Gas UK Awards 2011, Ann Davies, a well intervention engineer (su…

Career charters at Sellafield, Tata

Added: 1 Nov 2011

Professional accreditation can deliver some important career benefits for engineers working at vari…

Mike Bradley

Getting off the beaten track

Added: 1 Nov 2011

Professor Mike Bradley asks: Why don’t solids processing plants work properly?