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3. Existing and Future ApprenticeshipTraineeship
Schemes
The online questionnaire which was used to obtain information for the study was sent to a representative sample of 382 companies across the oil and gas
industry. The respondents identified that there are 90 individual schemes, run by 61 different companies. However 13 of these schemes are managed by OPITO
and ECITB as part of the Upstream Oil Gas Industry Technician Training Scheme UOGITTS. Therefore, these have been counted as one scheme,
bringing the total number of schemes to 78 Figure 3-1.
Of the 61 companies running an apprenticeshiptraineeship scheme, 45 have one scheme, seven companies have two schemes, five companies have three
schemes and four companies have four schemes running concurrently Figures 3-1
Figure 3-1: Number of Companies with one or more Existing Schemes
13 companies indicate that they will potentially introduce 15 new schemes within the next two years. Of these companies, 11 intend to have one scheme and two
companies intend to have two schemes. Respondents indicated that two of these potential schemes would be part of the UOGITT Scheme Figure 3-2.
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From the information provided it was estimated that the oil and gas industry will have approximately 100 different apprenticeshiptraineeship schemes across 74
companies by the year 2014.
According to the information provided by the respondents, in the next three years, starting from 2012 Figure 3-3, the industry can anticipate an average of
350 members of the workforce joining the industry as apprentices or trainees each year.
Figure 3-3 : Estimated Intake from 2012 to 2014
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The respondents have indicated that, in the next three years, there will be a high demand for apprentices and trainees in the Mechanical discipline with an
average of 34 119 people entering the industry for this discipline. This is followed by Electrical Figure 3-3.
Figure 3-4 : Estimated Intake from 2012 to 2014 for Existing Schemes
An analysis of the demand for each discipline of existing schemes is represented in Figure 3-4. The overall trend is visible for schemes currently available, where
Mechanical is the discipline in highest demand, followed by Electrical and Design.
Figure 3-5 : Estimated Intake from 2012 to 2014 for Potential Schemes in the Next Two Years
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Examination of the preferred discipline for potential schemes beginning in the next two years indicates a slight difference from the overall trend. The highest
demand remains for the Mechanical discipline, followed by Electrical. This is closely followed by Operations which is not shown in the overall trend Figure 3-
3 and Figure 3-5.
The trend for the next three years remains almost constant with regard to demand for each discipline, regardless of whether the scheme is currently in
place or if it is a new scheme which will be introduced over the next two years. A variance is visible for the Instrumentation discipline, where the requirement for
the Instrumentation apprenticestrainees in 2013 and 2014 is almost half of the requirement for 2012.
Overall, the discipline with the least demand for an apprenticeshiptraineeship scheme is Project Control. Companies indicate that there is unlikely to be any
intake of apprenticestrainees to this discipline from schemes starting within the next two years and less than 5 of the total intakes will be for the project
control discipline for existing apprenticeshiptraineeship schemes.
Key points of this section: On average, 350 people are likely to enter the oil and gas industry each
year as apprentices or trainees over the next three years.
The highest demand will be required for the Mechanical discipline, followed by Electrical.
Discipline numbers remain similar over the next three years.
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4. Criteria for ApprenticeshipTraineeship Schemes