banff and buchan college

Visit to BP for Girls on Energy Course

Female pupils from Turriff Academy enjoyed a visit to BP in Aberdeen as part of their Skills for Work Energy programme.

The Skills for Work Energy programme is run by Banff and Buchan College and is supported by Shell UK and Schlumberger.  It aims to introduce female students to the Energy Industry to provide positive training to encourage more females into a typically male dominated industry.

As part of the programme the girls are given various opportunities to visit industry so that they can relate the skills they learn throughout the course to real life job opportunities. The visit to BP was arranged to enable the girls to speak to various people within BP to find out about more opportunities that are available and to see what goes on in a real workplace.

As part of the visit the girls were given an introduction to BP’s work in the North Sea then they visited the ‘HIVE’ a Highly Immersive Visual Environment and were given a presentation on two projects - Kessog and Schiehallion. The girls also had an opportunity to learn about and try on survival suits and visited BP’s emergency response centre then to finish off they were given a talk about careers in the oil and gas industry.