Exploration and developmentactivities in the North Sea are an important contributor to Scotland’seconomy, with the oil and gas sector supporting some 90,000 Scottish jobs andgenerating some £10 billion of associated expenditure across the UK as awhole.Exploration and utilisationof oil and gas resources in the Atlantic waters West of Shetland could beexpected to require a range of skills and services similar to those offered byfirms currently supporting such activity...