No Skills Gap in the Oil and Gas Industry – It’s a Perception Gap

Whether the skills gap in engineering I’ve been hearing about for two decades now is real or not is a matter of opinion. I don’t think a lack of qualified engineers is the biggest recruitment issue facing the oil and gas industry. The issue is that there’s a huge perception gap.
Let’s face it: The oil and gas industry doesn’t have a terribly good reputation among students and young people. This is largely because of what they hear in the media, opinions that in my view are chiefly fostered by ignorance and misrepresentation.