Oil majors are facing a crisis after the COVID-19 pandemic made oil prices sink. The industry is hit by a skill shortage as more skilled field employees approach retirement.
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The London-based oil and gas company is looking to fill 100 offshore-wind jobs in the UK and the U.S., a figure which could double by the end of the year. The recruitment drive comes even as thousands of other employees have left the company amid a wider restructuring.
BP Plc has started a recruitment campaign for the people who will drive its expanding clean energy ambitions.
(Bloomberg) BP Plc has started a recruitment campaign for the people who will drive its expanding clean energy ambitions.
The London-based oil and gas company is looking to fill 100 offshore-wind jobs in the U.K. and the U.S., a figure which could double by the end of the year. The recruitment drive comes even as thousands of other employees have left the company amid a wider restructuring.
“This is the first step in terms of building our capability in this space,” Mikel Jauregi, senior vice president of people and culture for BP’s gas and low-carbon business said in an interview. “We do have ambitions to grow our gigawatts in offshore wind, and so the increase in human resources associated to that ambition will increase.”