North of Scotland Branch
The North of Scotland Branch of the Society are based in Aberdeen. The committee membership for 2008 is as follows:
North of Scotland Branch Committee:
Ian Stanley - Chairman - E-mail:I.Stanley@shell.com
Dave Holland - Treasurer - E-mail:dholland@venture-production.com
Puvaneswaran Balasubramaniam - Secretary - E-mail:PUVANB@talisman.co.uk
Colin McWhirr - Member
Paul Davison - Member
Kamalan Mariappan - Member
Brian Bain - Member
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE UK OIL AND GAS CHAPLAINCY
NORTH SEA HELICOPTER TRAGEDY – OIL CHAPEL TO BE OPEN FOR PRAYER
Following the tragedy that occurred today in the North Sea, the UK Oil and Gas Chaplaincy has arranged for the Oil Chapel located within the Kirk Of St Nicholas Uniting, Union Street, Aberdeen to be open for those wishing to leave floral tributes and to spend time in prayer and reflection. There will also be a Book of Condolence available for people to sign.
The Rev Andrew Jolly, Chaplain the UK Oil and Gas Industry said, “This is a dreadful tragedy to befall the industry. When incidents like this occur it affects everyone offshore and onshore. It also impacts upon the people of Aberdeen too. The Oil Chapel has been a place of comfort and solace for people from this industry for many years. It is the natural place for people to gravitate to in times of tragedy offshore. We are grateful to the staff of St Nicholas for making this possible.”
“The families of those affected by this tragedy and the wider family of those who work offshore and onshore are in our thoughts and prayers”.
The Chapel will be open from 9.30am and throughout the day.
The UK Oil & Gas Chaplaincy is administered by the Aberdeen Oil Industry Chaplaincy Trust which is fully funded by Oil and Gas UK.
For further details go to www.ukoilandgaschaplaincy.com or email info@ukoilandgaschaplaincy.com
CONTACT: MRS ANNE FULLERTON, THE UK OIL & GAS CHAPLAINCY ADMINISTRATOR
T: 01224 297533 E: anne.fullerton@ukoilandgaschaplaincy.com
REV ANDREW JOLLY, CHAPLAIN TO THE UK OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY
T: 01224 297532 E: andrew.jolly@ukoilandgaschaplaincy.com
The UK Oil & Gas Chaplaincy, c/o TOTAL E&P UK Ltd, Crawpeel Road, Aberdeen AB12 3FG
The North of Scotland Branch organise and run events in Aberdeen as follows:
North of Scotland Dinner
This event is held in May each year at The Marcliffe at Pitfodels Hotel in Aberdeen. This annual event has become well established in the diaries of companies local to Aberdeen and continues to provide an opportunity for knowledge-sharing and networking. For details of next year's Annual Dinner please contact the office. 2009 sees the 7th North of Scotland Annual Dinner on the 26th May 2009. For more details please see our events pages.
Continuing Professional Development Seminars
Seminar: Reliability
The NoS Branch will be running an all day CPD Seminar on Thursday 27th November at the Marcliffe Hotel and Spa. The theme for the Seminar will be Reliability and will cover theory and practical applications.
The prime role of the CPD Seminars is to provide sufficient CPD for 1) those who are Chartered (or working their way to becoming Chartered), 2) for those who are new entries to the industry and 3) for those who work in the industry but not necessarily in a reliability discipline but need to know at a high level why it is relevant.
We are planning to cover in general the following:
- Reliability theory
- Distribution fitting
- SIL
- Fault Trees
- Availability
- Advanced Reliability and Monte Carlo
- Reliability updating
Previous seminars:
Seminar: Technical Safety Fundamentals, 12th June 2008