North-east school pupils will be given a unique insight into the oil and gas industry.
Senior secondary pupils from across Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire will take part in a project over the next few months, which will be launched tomorrow as part of this year’s Techfest.
Techfest’s STEM In The Pipeline will begin with an introduction day at Aberdeen University, which will be attended by 16 teams of pupils and offshore industry professionals who will act as mentors.
Pupils will attend five practical workshops in geology, drilling and reservoir, finance, processing and project management and start working together on their challenge.
Each group will be tasked with creating a field development plan for a fictional oil field.
The tasks cover subsurface work, production profiling, separator design, safety and the calculation of carbon dioxide emissions.
The scheme is expected to take more than 40 hours for each team to complete, in their own time, before they present their final work to judges in December.
Molly Imrie, Techfest outreach coordinator, said: “Year-on-year the students excel in this project and always demonstrate very high levels of passion, intelligence and ingenuity.”
The schools taking part this year are Robert Gordon’s College, St Margaret’s School of Girls, The Gordon Schools in Huntly, Aberdeen Grammar School and Banchory, Westhill, Ellon, Inverurie, Portlethen, Banff, Aboyne, Alford, Harlaw, Fraserburgh, Kemnay and Meldrum academies.
This year the festival will run from September 11 until October 2.
For more information, visit www.techfestsetpoint.org.uk