IAN MCCONNELL
A PROJECT to formulate a new UK oil and gas sector skills strategy has been launched, with industry-owned OPITO appointing Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen to work on the plan.
Not-for-profit skills body OPITO said the project would involve an industry survey and workshops “to help develop a blueprint to support skills diversification and digital transformation”.
RGU’s Oil and Gas Institute will engage with the industry and stakeholders to gather data to enable a “high-level assessment” of existing and new skills required. OPITO’S recent UK Continental Shelf workforce dynamics review found that around 40,000 people would likely need to be recruited into the sector over the next 20 years and 10,000 of those would be in roles that do not currently exist.
John McDonald, chief executive of OPITO said: “We want to be able to take swift and appropriate action to safeguard roles, upskill the existing workforce and prepare the sector for emerging digital and data roles.”
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