Workers in the oil and gas industry in the UK are a step closer to having a digital passport with all their qualifications in one place which will make it easier to transfer to offshore wind, hydrogen, and other energy industries. The passport, backed by the alignment and recognition of training and standards across these industries , is due to be launched in the third quarter of 2023.

The passport, which will provide a platform for workers to store and share their qualifications and skills, is part of the North Sea Transition Deal and the UK’s Offshore Wind Sector Deal from 2019. Its faster launch has been urged for over the past few years by oil and gas workers who said that they, in order to get jobs in offshore wind, had had to take training courses in areas similar to those they had been already certified for, and had done that at their own expense.