Offshore partnership with Rosyth

An oil and gas industry firm has formed an alliance which will see workers at the Rosyth naval dockyard in Fife being used offshore. Petrofac, a service provider for the oil and gas production and processing industry, has joined forces with Babcock International Group for the ?groundbreaking? cross-skilling plan.

Scores of workers are now set to be taught how to convert their skills through training before going offshore. Amicus, the manufacturing union, said it hoped it would set a precedent across the country. Jobs have been lost at Rosyth in recent years, while there are skills shortages in the offshore industry. The core skills at Babcock have been identified as a good fit for the oil and gas industry, and it is therefore seen as making sense to use surplus labour in this way.