According to a study by the Grampian and Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce, there is renewed interest and increasing confidence in the gas and oil industry. It seems that the industry has shown its resilience in the face of the current global recession, choosing to retain much of its workforce as possible and already casting an eye to the possible opportunities offered by the future. As a result, around half of all contracting firms are expecting to take on more staff over the next three years, from those in drilling jobs and oil rig jobs to those in more managerial positions.
The chief executive of the Grampian and Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce, Robert Collier, has said that the “change in business confidence is more marked in the international context” than in the UK. His concerns seem to be that a rising overseas gas and oil industry will draw talent away from British shores.
The industry itself has benefited from rising crude prices, which has wooed further investment from across the globe. In the UK alone, the index of 109 energy firms listed on the Alternative Investment Market grew by 35% in the third quarter of 2009. Of those, around two-thirds experienced share increases during that period. In total, this means that the oil and gas industry has experienced an increase of 114% since the start of the year. In addition, experts at the accountancy firm Ernest & Young have found that secondary fundraising in the oil and gas sector came in at approximately £333.3 million – the highest figure raised in a single quarter since 2006.
The UK oil and gas sector seems to have had some premonition of this situation, choosing to freeze or reduce wages, rather than implementing redundancies. Having taken this stance, as investor confidence grows and key assets are readied for development, the UK industry could be in a strong position to create more opportunities for oil jobs and oil careers. This also seems to be a short-term possibility, as small to medium-sized companies arrange joint ventures and transactions to create tactical opportunities in competition with cash-rich investors and oil production companies. The oil and gas industry has shown itself to be a resilient one and many are looking to it to offer the much-needed boost to the global economy that the financial sector has so dramatically failed to provide.
Given the not-too-distant history in the industry, its hardiness in the face of the recession seems to show that lessons from the past have been learned. As recently as the past year, the sector has faced difficult times with levels of activity in the UK Continental Shelf and internationally on the decline. As a result, the proportions of operators and contractors working below optimum levels were higher than in previous years.
Now, the industry has decided to weather the storm and look to a future that seems to be promising a rejuvenated industry, with opportunities for oil careers and oil jobs that are set to last.
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RT Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.Robert Collier
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posted by: Steven Perez Amplify’d from http://www.tomdispatch.com The dried blood on the concrete floor is there for all to see, a stain forever marking the spot on a Memphis motel balcony where Martin Luther King, Jr. lay mortally wounded by a sniper’s bullet. It is a stark and ghostly image speaking to the sharp pain of absence. King is gone. His aides are gone. Only the stain remains. What now? That image is, of course, a photograph taken by Ernest C. Withers, Memphis born and bred, and known as the photographer of the civil rights movement. He was there at the Lorraine Motel, as he had been at so many other critical places, recording iconic images of those tumultuous years. In addition to photographing moments large and small in the struggle for black civil rights in the South, Withers had another job. He was an informer for the FBI, passing along information on the doings of King, Ralph Abernathy, Andrew Young, Ben Hooks, and other leaders of the movement. He reported on meetings he…
No, Hemingway recorded this and it played at the assembly. It is, in fact, Hemingway’s voice.
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DO NOT go to the chamber of commerce.
They have nothing to do with charities or volunteer organizations.
They are only interested in profit-making businesses.
There are plenty of places to volunteer in your community.
Stand up.
Leave the room.
Go outside
Look around.
libraries
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social service agencies
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homeless shelters
Red Cross
Animal shelters
girl scouts
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children's athletic teams.
I would not worry they are also supposed to keep public sector borrowing below 3% ha ha
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já ta passando filminhos de natal na TV? vai passar o filme do Ernest, tenho certeza.
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I read about 8 of those — IN school and a few others on my own.
But you forgot one — the Holy Bible. That's banned in public schools too, and I'm HAPPY it is.
So I can't really say I disagree with banning books when I support banning SOME books. Right?
Because we have control over the private sector. We have the ability to cause them to go bankrupt by not buying their services. If a private company does harm to us, we can sue them. If the goverment does, we can't do anything.
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I don’t ever follow someone totally over the cliff. But I’d have to say that his exposure of the UCC is defiantly something they never taught me in high school. wonder why that is that the state that functions entirely under this code wouldn’t want me to know and understand how it pertains to me. he does a brilliant job of bringing light to the people that fuck the world over. Religion is bullshit, and so is atheism. enlightenment is where it’s at and not found in a name or a book.
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