Weekly update, 25th June
30th
Jun,
2018
Energy & Business Services: Delighted to see that Subsea 7 has secured a further multi-million pound contract for its site at Wester, north of Wick. Two pipeline bundles for Shell’s Penguins field will add to the previously-announced contract for Statoil, with both contracts providing work for up to 160 workers until 2020. https://www.subsea7.com/en/media-centre/press-releases/2018/subsea-7-awarded-contract-offshore-uk0.html Following last […]
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Weekly update, 8th January 2018
12th
Jan,
2018
Energy & business services: Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy – the suppliers of the turbines for the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm – are advertising several new roles to be based at the operations base in Wick. A Senior Technician (https://jobs.siemens-info.com/jobs/286138/Senior+Technician+(Technical+Supervisor)+-+Beatrice+-+Wick?lang=en-GB) Service Coordinators (https://jobs.siemens-info.com/jobs/286144/Service+Coordinator+-+Beatrice%2C+Wick?lang=en-GB) a Troubleshooter (https://jobs.siemens-info.com/jobs/286136/Troubleshooter+-+Beatrice?lang=en-GB) an Offshore Site Planner (https://jobs.siemens-info.com/jobs/286140/Offshore+Site+Planner+-+Beatrice%2C+Wick?lang=en-GB) and Stores Operative (https://jobs.siemens-info.com/jobs/286556/Stores+Operative+-+Beatrice%2C+Wick?lang=en-GB) are all […]
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Weekly update, 6th February 2017
10th
Feb,
2017
Enabling activities: • The “Jobs and How to Get Them” event was held in Thurso last Saturday (see https://www.facebook.com/caithnessjobs/ for event photos). It was very well attended by a range of organisations, at least 50% of whom were offering current employment/ apprenticeship opportunities. And it was good to see that members of the public came […]
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Weekly update, 16th January 2017
20th
Jan,
2017
Energy & business services: • Following last week’s very welcome news that Highland Council has approved the application to redevelop harbour-side buildings in Wick as an Operations & Maintenance base for the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm (BOWL) project comes the first visualisation of what the restored buildings will look like – for picture see the BOWL […]
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Weekly update, 29th August
02nd
Sep,
2016
Tourism, food & drink: • Following last week’s visit of the “Hebridean Sky” Scrabster harbour welcomed another cruise ship to port this week, with the arrival of the “Pacific Princess” which can carry up to 820 passengers, plus crew. Once again a number of passengers came ashore to visit local attractions, some taking advantage of […]
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Weekly update, 2nd February 2015
06th
Feb,
2015
Energy & Business services: I was delighted to take part this week with June Love in a visit from overseas representatives of an energy/ engineering company. The visit, which was coordinated by CNSRP partner Highlands and Islands Enterprise, took in specific locations in Caithness, and also allowed discussions to take place with relevant local representatives. […]
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Weekly update, 6th January 2014
10th
Jan,
2014
Energy & Business Services: I met today (Friday) with representatives from Financial & Business Services teams in HIE and Scottish Development International to discuss opportunities to attract new business to this area. We have companies in the north providing excellent business process operations (eg Escape Technologies, Navertech, Aon Hewitt, BT, the Dental Plan) and we […]
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Weekly update, 3rd June 2013
07th
Jun,
2013
Energy/ Business Services: Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd, the partnership behind the planned offshore windfarm in the Moray Firth near the coast of Caithness and East Sutherland, has added some further data to its application to Marine Scotland for consent to build its development. If consented this could see up to 277 turbines sites in the […]
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