Posted: February 11, 2013
Australia’s oil and gas workers enjoyed the highest average salaries in the industry in 2012 due to a skills shortage, with expatriates pocketing $171,000 a year, a study said on Friday.
Despite uncertain global economic conditions, wages in the oil and gas industry rose globally by 8.5 percent in 2012 to $87,300, according to Hays Oil and Gas Job Search. That follows an average increase of 6.5 percent in 2011.
“There would be few industries with such a track record of growth over the last few years in what has been, in the most part, an uncertain economic environment,” the report said.
World oil production in 2012 grew by 2 percent from the previous year to 89.17 million barrels per day and is expected to increase 1 percent this year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Expatriates in Australia topped the list, and Norway came second, according to the survey, conducted among more than 25,000 employees. Among local hires, Australians workers were also the highest earners, with an average wage of $163,600.
“At the top of this year’s table, we once again see Australia and Norway. Both countries have limited skilled labour pools and significant workloads. The result is very high pay rates, although both would appear to have met some sort of ceiling,” the report said.
Australia is preparing to become one of the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporters, with 190 billion Australian dollars ($196.2 billion) worth of projects currently underway, requiring a vast workforce.
The average wage in the United States was significantly lower at $123,800. At the other end of the spectrum were expatriates in Sudan, who according to the survey, earned $59,800 in 2012. Wages tumbled in Iran, whose oil and gas production contracted last year as a result of Western sanctions over its disputed nuclear programme. The average expatriate salary in Iran dropped 27 percent in 2012 to $68,100, while the average for local employees fell 10 percent to $46,900, the study found. “Where imported salaries are concerned, it is once again the frontiers of the industry that are pushing the upper limits of pay. Representing a mix of danger money and hardship allowance in these base salaries, we find Russia’s Arctic exploration driving imported skills, and China’s drive on non-conventional skills also pulling in experts on premium rates,” Hays Oil and Gas Job Search said. The risks involved in some exploration and production regions were laid bare last month in Algeria, where Islamist gunmen attacked a gas plant, which led to the deaths of at least 38 local and foreign workers. Expatriate salaries in Algeria averaged $92,400 last year, according to the survey, which was conducted before the attack. As for areas of expertise, vice presidents and directors of subsea pipeline projects earned the highest average wages at $251,200, up 9 percent from 2011. Graduate salaries increased 12 percent to just under $40,000 in 2012. In an industry counting around 5 million people across the world, 47.4 percent are expatriates, with the remainder employed locally, the report said. ( C) Reuters
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Posted: June 14, 2012
The Strategic Marine Alliance for Research and Training have introduced the
The module is designed for those who wish to gain practical skills in at sea sampling and data collection and is geared towards the training requirements of postgraduate students and researchers, marine agency and industry personnel, and those wishing to develop a career in applied marine biology. A description of the module with instructor biographies, application forms for the module and a module poster can be downloaded at the bottom of the page. Completion of the module results in the award of 5 ECTS credits at postgraduate level 9.
Twenty places are available on this accredited postgraduate module which will run between Monday the 1st of October and Friday the 26th October 2012.
Week 1 is composed of mentored student centered distance learning.
Week 2 consists of three days of laboratory practicals and lectures in Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology and four days shiptime divided between the Celtic Voyager and Celtic Mist research vessels off Cork and in the Shannon Estuary respectively. For the shiptime components, there will be a maximum of ten students per vessel per day.
Weeks 3 and 4 consist of student centered distance learning leading towards the submission of a project report.
Fees for the module are €750. Completed application forms should be submitted no later than the 20th of July 2012.
For further information please email smart@gmit.ie
http://www.smartseaschool.com/content/postgraduate-accredited-module-applied-marine-biological-sampling-and-data-collections
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Posted: March 6, 2012
SNO Attains Offshore Lifeboat Coxswains OPITO Approval
SEFtec NMCI Offshore is delighted to announce that we have achieved OPITO approval in Offshore Lifeboat Coxswain Training for 4 of our courses.
The 4 courses which have achieved the approval and will commence at the NMCI in the coming months are as follows:
- OPITO Offshore Lifeboat Coxswains Course Initial Twinfall (TEMPSC)
- Supplementary Freefall Lifeboat Training
- Offshore Lifeboat Coxswains Refresher Twinfall
- Supplementary Refresher Freefall Lifeboat Training
On completion of the coxswain course delegates will be competent in the following areas:
- Roles and Responsibilities of the offshore training – Lifeboat Coxswain
- Maintaining Readiness and Preparing TEMPSC
- Preparing to Launch and Launching TEMPSC
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Posted: December 2, 2011
NMCI will launch its new Marine Data Communications & Networking course in January 2012. The course runs for 13 weeks with classes taking place one night a week, starting at 6.30pm and finishing at 9.30pm at NMCI. The first class will take place on the 16th of January.
The course will be delivered by Arnaud Disant who has been an IT Professional Service Engineer since 1992. Mr Disant has experience in Messaging, Identity Management, Marine IT as well as Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), mentoring and has a strong background in IT training (including electronic messaging, identity management and Internet technologies), he has delivered lectures in English and in French throughout Europe, the United States and Australia.
Full course dates below:
January: 16th, 23rd and 30th
February: 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th
March: 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th
April: 23rd, 30th
OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the course a student should be able to build a computer from bare components, install an operating system of his choice on it, and configure it. Delegate will be able to build crimp from parts a network cable, connect the computer to the Internet, install a navigation system of his / her choice, including charts and at least one peripheral such as GPS, AIS, etc…
DELIVERY MODE
The above objective is the minimum required at the end of the course.
The agenda above can be delivered in two methods, basics & advanced, the difference lays in the amount of time spent on some modules such as radar integrator boards “RIBS”, moxas, splitters, converters isolators and how in depth certain protocol is covered.
The course is delivered over 13 sessions which includes lab work. There is two ways in which the course can be delivered, evenings or compressed into a week.
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*We are pleased to announce a 50% discount on the PolarView Licence for each delegate on the Marine Data Communications & Networking Course.
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