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Jobs are plentiful in the oil and gas industry and increasingly engineers can take their pick of employers who are competing to recruit and retain staff. Julia Pierce reports

The UK oil and gas industry has contributed £25bn to the country's economy in the last 25 years. While extraction of reserves is becoming harder as supplies from larger, more established fields run out, a combination of high oil prices and rapidly growing global demand means the sector is thriving. This has created substantial demand for staff across the board.

'In the last three to four years the health of the oil and gas sector has been unprecedented,' said Peter Theakston, resourcing manager at

. 'There is plenty of work until 2010 in the UK, and there are new projects coming on line over the next two quarters which will take it beyond this.

'Growth is being driven by high demand from emerging economies as well as high oil prices. The extra money generated is being invested in new infrastructure. There are four new refineries coming up for completion — before now, none had been built for a long time. It is definitely an unprecedented period.'

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