National Oil & Gas Skills Week was unveiled on June 25 by industry skills organisation OPITO. It will see everything from science, engineering and maths, specialist workshops and careers sessions to debates, interactive challenges and much more take place across the UK with events in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Norwich and Great Yarmouth already confirmed. More are planned, including a number in London.

The Week, which has been welcomed by Energy Minister Fergus Ewing and Business Secretary Vince Cable, comes in response to the need to attract thousands of new recruits to the sector over the next three years, with tens of thousands more needed in the long term.

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