Quality First Int. – Quality First International, Calgary

13 Sep 2016

Skills boost for oil, gas and offshore wind industry

A Teesside college has teamed up with an energy training specialist to help industry unlock opportunities in the offshore wind, and oil and gas sectors. Redcar & Cleveland College and Maersk Training have come together to develop a new learning programme for professionals seeking to work on projects in these sectors. Created by experienced industry professionals, the offshore w...

Hundreds approved for new oil and gas transition training scheme

Quality First Int. Oil and Gas Prospecting

Six hundred people have been approved for a scheme to help people who face losing their jobs in oil and gas to gain new skills and find new work. The Transition Training Fund was launched by the Scottish government in February. The £12m fund offers grants for individuals to acquire specialised skills or further training. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said 600 people had been appr...

Angola students learn oil and gas skills in Calgary

Quality First Int. Petrophysical training

Forty-four students from Angola are in Calgary to learn everything they need to know about the oil and gas industry. The students are in town for a 30-week joint program between Chevron and SAIT to prepare them to work for Chevron back in Africa. However, for the students it's also an opportunity to push themselves to try new things. Naice Elisa de Sousa Rio is one of the 44 studen...

B.C. LNG proponents bullish about industry’s future

Quality First Int. Training

Despite delays and low prices plaguing liquefied natural gas projects proposed in British Columbia, some proponents told a Calgary audience Wednesday they remain bullish about the industry’s future. Robert Dakers, commercial director for the Shell-backed project in Kitimat, B.C., dubbed LNG Canada, said the West Coast industry missed the first wave of LNG demand, but that it could tak...

Oil and gas downturns in B.C. and Alberta ease Site C labour force concerns

Quality First Int. Reservoir Management

VICTORIA — Alberta’s loss is British Columbia’s gain as fears of labour shortages for the construction of the massive Site C dam evaporate amid a slump in the oil and gas industry, says a new report released Tuesday. The slowdown is providing a steady supply of skilled workers for the Peace River project, the report says, easing previous concerns from experts who had warned of potenti...

Natural-Gas Prices Heat Up as Oil Drilling Cools Off

Quality First Int. Petrophysical Consulting

A long period of low oil prices has saved motorists money at the pump, but languishing crude prices could drive up heating bills. That is because the natural-gas supply is closely connected to oil drilling. Low crude prices have led U.S. oil producers to idle more than a thousand rigs over the past two years, resulting in a big decline in so-called associated gas, a byproduct of oil d...