Further North Sea Oil companies have warned they need to downsize staff numbers and tighten their operations to remain competitive within the current challenging market.

Both EnQuest and DOF Subsea announced today they are looking to reduce staff levels within their UK operations

EnQuest, based within Aberdeen city centre announced, that it was proposing to cut nine offshore positions as it looked at “reorganisation options”

While DOF Subsea, based on Market Street, said it was looking to reduce staffing levels within the UK by at least 20 to cut operational costs.

Neil McCulloch, president of EnQuest North Sea said: “In order to ensure that EnQuest retains its competitive edge, we have been looking at every aspect of our business to see what we can do differently in terms of improving productivity, quality and cost efficiency, whilst maintaining safe and effective operations. As part of this, we, like many companies, are considering a range of offshore workforce reorganisation options.”

Giovanni Corbetta, managing director of DOF Subsea UK, commented: “For some time now, we have endeavoured to work through the downturn but we cannot continue to operate in this way.”

This follows the news last week of both Shell UK and TAQA announcing over 350 local redundancies and growing industry concerns about local job stability over North Sea job cuts

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