Today’s talent, tomorrow’s energy

Annette ThomasUK Business Development Director

OPITO – The Oil & Gas Academy

OPITO - The Oil & Gas Academy‘The Industry’s focal point for skills, learning & workforce development’

Working in collaboration with:

• Employers: to understand their needs and deliver against them

• Learning providers: to link industry to the organisations that can best

equip it with its safe, skilled and effective workforce

• Education: to help secure the industry’s feedstock of new recruits, now and

in the future

• Partnership Organisations: to add value and deliver mutual benefit in

supporting the industry’s learning needs

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Providing the focus

Potential Talent

Employers Needs

Skilled Workers

Learning Supply Chain

Build relationships & understand issues from different sources:

• Top down approach• Bottom up approach

Work in three distinct areas:

• Learning provision• Education• Partner organisations

Target & develop key demographics:

• Transitions/transferable skills• College/University Graduates• School leavers

Key aim – increase availability of:

• Safe, skilled & effective workforce

The Oil & Gas Life Cycle

The activities that drive the requirement for people, skills and competence

onshore and offshore throughout the supply chain

Exploration Appraisal Field Development Production Decommissioning

Oil Products

Other Business Activitiesi.e. Wind, Wave, Hydrogen and Fuel Cell.

Chemicals Gas & Power

Exploration & Production

Energy Companies provide fuel for transport and electricity and oil and hydrocarbons for the development of everyday products from chemicals to plastics

The Energy Industry

• Shooting seismic to image the subsurface – precise positioning is vital

• Marine Vessel towing streamers that contain hydrophones: Air guns emit signals – travel through water – into the Earth – through strata – return to hydrophones – recorded as seismic data

The seismic data is then used to image and map the subsurface

Geologists & Geophysicists

• Shallow Geo – Hazards• How flat is the seabed?• How hard is the seabed?• Obstacles or debris

Seabed surveys – Design, Acquisition and Reporting:What are the major hazards for positioning a rig, structure or pipeline?

Geographers & Surveyors

Installations:

• Positioning and navigation

support

• Pre decommissioning surveys

• Hazard notification

• Post decommissioning surveys

• Updating of infrastructure

databases

Pipelines and Cables:

• Positioning and navigation

support

• Monitoring adjacent

infrastructure integrity

• Post decommissioning survey

inspection

• Updating of infrastructure

databases

Decommissioning

Technology & Innovation

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Companies employ environmental scientists to look at how energy industry activities might affect plants, animals, fish and birds before any development can take place on land or under the sea.

Renewable energy effectively uses natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, crops and geothermal heat. All of which are naturally replenished.

Environmental Scientists

Current Talent

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Any Questions?