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New social networking website launched for the Oil and Gas industry

Aberdeen-based Our Oil and Gas, has been inspired by the recent publicity surrounding social networking websites and joined forces with AVC Media Enterprises to develop a fast moving and socially interactive site, designed purely for the Oil and Gas Industry.

Our Oil and Gas is the brainchild of Peter McCready, a Shutdown Coordinator from Stonehaven, whose job has taken him all over the world including Yemen, Holland and the United Arab Emirates.

“Although there is now so much more to do offshore than in days of old it can still be a lonely place and if you are off for long periods of time or stationed abroad there is often no easy way to keep in touch with family; comments Peter McCready of Our Oil and Gas.

“With Our Oil and Gas what I wanted to do was create an easily accessible, user friendly communication tool that allows the sharing of images and video as well as offering chat functions and industry information.”

Having been completely redeveloped by AVC’s IT team, www.ouroilandgas.com has been re-launched and already has approximately 2000 members. The site allows workers abroad and offshore immediate communication with their family, friends and colleagues without having to wait for phone lines to become free.

Designed to support the sharing of video and photographs, www.ouroilandgas.com also carries the latest industry news as well as offering personal areas and chat functions. It also allows workers and colleagues to keep in touch, or track one another down, using the bespoke search function designed by AVC’s technical team.

Peter McCready continues: “Our Oil and Gas is an invaluable resource to its users, particularly those with young families. The fact that we can share images and video on personal and secure areas means that parents aren’t missing out on important occasions or the significant events as their children grow up.”

Social networking sites have been the topic of much recent debate, particularly in terms of employees using them in work time, but Our Oil and Gas looks set to capitalise on this popular phenomenon and implement it into an industry that craves new methods of communication.

William Binnie, Head of IT, AVC Media Enterprises comments: “Our Oil and Gas is an ideal communication tool for the offshore industry. We have developed the product taking into account the needs of those in the industry and developed a very specific but user friendly and logical package, keeping communication channels open even in the most remote locations.

“AVC has long established connections with the Oil and Gas industry and so we completely understand the complexities of communications offshore and abroad as well as the requirement for a tool such as www.ouroilandgas.com.”

Screengrabs from www.ouroilandgas.com below. (Click for full size.)