Wireline Issue 24 - May 2013

Apprentices are trained in welding at the Nigg Skills Academy. Image courtesy of Derek Gordon Photography View an inspiring short film about the UK oil and gas industry at www.e ergisi thenationsfuture.co.uk/ getinvolved.

Energising the Nation’s Future with Oil & Gas Oil & Gas UK has launched a new campaign to raise public awareness about the UK offshore oil and gas industry’s contribution to the economy, innovation and energy security. Wireline finds out how we can all show that we are ‘Proud to be in Oil & Gas’.

T he oil and gas industry is by some margin the single largest industrial contributor to the UK economy. In addition to its economic contribution and its role in protecting energy security, the industry is also a world- class driver of innovation in UK science, technology and engineering

across the oil and gas operating community, supply chain and related industries. The oil and gas sector also creates and sustains an impressive number of skilled and valued jobs. Unfortunately, these facts are not well known or understood outside the key oil and gas hubs.

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