May Media Training

The Midas Media team has been busy running several media training courses this month for oil operators.  Despite the downturn in the oil price, our clients understand the importance of reputation management and how critical it is to practice their skills. 

And, how media in the 21st century has changed: with the growth of social media and smartphones - everyone is a reporter!

Our trainers still actively work in the media and have numerous offshore trips to rigs, platforms and FPSO’s under their belt, which helps us deliver authentic and credible training to our oil & gas clients (UK and worldwide).

TV documentary airs

30th April 2015: “Air na Rigs (Life Offshore)”, our hour long documentary was first shown on BBC ALBA to great review.  With unprecedented access, viewers were taken on a journey to see what it is really like to work offshore in the North Sea. 

Before anyone can travel to an installation, even for a day they have to complete a five day survival training course.  Starting at the heliport, and following a group doing their survival training, we then fly to Buzzard and Golden Eagle where we learn about daily life on an oil platform, including the E120 drilling rig.

April Filming

Filming continues for our 10 x 30 min observational documentary TV series on Scottish vets.  This month we’ve been to Highland Wildlife Park with vet Jane Harley as she knocked out some animals for treatment or tests, including a young Bison, a lively Markhor and a beautiful Kiang stallion. 

The Wildlife Rescue Centre at Fishcross in Clackmannanshire has been busy dealing with injured or orphaned newborns.  We film vet Romain Pizzi on one of his weekly visits as he treats baby red squirrels, baby rabbits and fox cubs. 

And, we had a week in Wick during the calving and lambing season, which included a late night Caesarian section on a farm, where the calf’s life was in danger.  

New media training contracts for 2015

Midas has been awarded a string of new media training contracts for 2015. 

We continue to grow our reputation as a leading provider of media & crisis communications training to some of the biggest companies in the world.

With a speciality in the energy sector, we work with many of the worlds biggest oil and gas operators, including BP, Shell, Total, Nexen, TAQA, GDF Suez & EnQuest to name a few.

New Midas website launched

We're delighted this week to launch the new Midas Media website! In the weeks to come, we'll add lot's of new video content and exciting news!

Offshore doc nearing completion

We're busy finishing up our new BBC documentary that looks at life offshore in the North sea.