Annual Report 2010 - IRO

Dutch Maritime Network
An important task of IRO is to promote the upstream oil and gas industry with the
younger public. To do this, IRO is involved in the Taskforce Jongeren, a task group within
the Stichting Nederland Maritiem Land (NML). The taskforce aims to reach youngsters
between 10 and 18 years old via educational material like ‘Gave Haven’ and ‘Work@
Water’. At the end of 2009, new material was released targeting group 7/8 of primary
schools in the form of a board game called ‘Schip in zicht’.
Also the ‘Spetters gezocht’ campaign continued with participation in career events,
publication of newsletters and brochures. Special efforts were made in 2010 to target
scouting groups; the taskforce was present at the JubJam100 event, the celebration of
100 years of scouting in the Netherlands.
A successful, annually returning project is the ‘Vlettenproject’. In 2010 two different
projects were run and IRO was proud to sponsor a boat in each of them.
The project in South-Holland, called ‘Vletten op de Maas’ was held for the fourth time
in 2010. In May, during Dordt in Stoom, the participants raced their boats and handed
them over to the scouting groups. In this IRO sponsored the Willem de Zwijger College
in Alblasserwaard. The new project in North Holland called ‘Vette Vletten’ was finalized
with a spectacular race during Sail Amsterdam and IRO sponsored the young but very
enthusiastic group from the Regius College in Schagen.
‘Vette vletten’ race during SAIL 2010
On 21 August 2010, the Vlettenrace was held at the
SAILsation area in Amsterdam. Enthusiastic students of
ten VMBO schools in the Province of North Holland
built twelve boats over the past six months with support
of Scouting groups.
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Training course ‘Oil and gas well sourced’
This non-technical course is meant for people who (start to) work in the industry and
would benefit from gaining some general understanding of how oil and gas came into
being, how it is found, how it is produced, what technology is used and how the industry
is organized. The training is also useful for people who provide products and services
to the sector. The course combines presentations with a tour around the Keppel Verolme
yard where the different offshore ships and installations can be discussed while looking
at examples. In 2010 the training course was given six times, of which two were in
English. One in-house training course was held for Van Oord. In an in-house course the
programme can be adjusted to the specific needs of the company and a greater number
of participants are able to attend.
During this project the boats were officially launched
in Edam and tested during a canal tour in Amsterdam
where the students were welcomed in the City Hall of
Amsterdam by Ms. Carolien Gehrels.
The closing event of this project was on 21 August
during Sail 2010 in which the schools competed
against each other in an exciting boat race which
was witnessed by the Queen’s Commissioner, Johan
Remkes. The Triade Atlas College Edam won the prize
for ‘Fastest boat’, ROC Amsterdam was the ‘Best boat
building school’, PCC Alkmaar had the ‘Best built boat’
and BIM Bakenesser Group of Haarlem was the ‘Best
scouting group’. IRO sponsored the Regius College in
Schagen, unfortunately they did not win a prize, but of
course we are very proud of the boys!
The event was organized by Nederland Maritiem
Land and Amports, supported by the Province of North
Holland and North Holland Scouting Admirality.
For more information on the ‘Vette Vletten’ project,
please go to www.vettevletten.nl.
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