Originally Posted by
TeeS
It basically comes down to customer requirements Swapshop.
The oil and gas producers stipulate a minimum experience level. The minimum experience level can be reduced if you have attended an integrated course.
Exactly. It is an OGP stipulation. You can read about it yourself here:
http://www.ogp.org.uk/pubs/390.pdf (Appendix 5).
Originally Posted by
swapshop
Other UK operators do not have this 500 hour requirement.
They will do if their customers are OGP compliant. (FYI, not all of the oil companies are fully compliant, yet).
HTH