Raymond Pirie specialises in bugs and has done for decades, starting his career at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen during 1968 before throwing his lot in with the oil industry during the early years of North Sea oil.
Eighteen months ago, the UK's Department of Energy & Climate Change approved the development plans for Mariner, a heavy oilfield that was discovered in 1981 but which failed to make the commercial grade until acquired by Statoil and re-engineered.
The pool of genius that has long characterised Schlumberger has done it again with a reservoir mapping-while-drilling technology that is now being offered to the market.
Every day there are headlines about the shale gas revolution that is engulfing the US and which the current UK Government hopes will sweep the UK.
There has been a sharp increase in the overall number of UK North Sea hydrocarbon releases (HCRs) over the past year, though the number of major and significant incidents did drop significantly.
A tidal energy scheme in the Pentland Firth could provide enough power for almost half of Scotland's electricity needs.
The talent debate goes on, and on, and on, and on… seemingly ad infinitum.
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has appointed a project team of PRP, Peabody and VINCI Facilities to demonstrate novel insulation retrofit approaches in British domestic properties.
This week sees the UK and international renewable energies communities beating a path to Aberdeen for All-Energy, now in its 13th year.
UK manufacturing content of wind developments is "currently low" particularly for capital expenditure, according to the Royal Academy of Engineering.
A PhD researcher at UHI says that tidal turbulence may pose a risk to the siting and operation of tidal energy devices in Scotland's Pentland Firth.
Wind energy can make a significant contribution to electricity supply in the UK . . . up to about 20% of consumption by 2020 based on current estimates according to new research.
Greater consensus and collaboration across the public and private sectors is vital in order to tackle the main technology challenges facing the UK offshore renewable energy industry and ensure the UK maintains its competitive edge in a rapidly developing global market.
Since co-founding Rovop in 2011, managing director Steven Gray has driven forward what has become a rather neat, highly successful subsea specialist with feet planted in both the offshore oil and gas and maritime renewables camps.
Here we go again . . . All-Energy is back in Aberdeen and, hopefully, it won't suffer the meteorological battering handed out by Mother Nature last year.
It seems that the sudden departure of Geoff Holmes from the top slot at Talisman Sinopec here in Aberdeen has set tongues wagging. This is partly because of what is not said in the tersely worded statement by the company shoved out to the media yesterday
A top boss at Bristow, one of the North Sea’s big three helicopter operators, says the company has no issue with accepting and adopting the raft of measures that the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) plans to implement from next month.
Researchers at MIT have cottoned to the potential value of oil and gas floating production systems design for offshore nuclear reactors.
Offshore support vessel fleet owner Topaz Energy and Marine has secured a key contract in West Africa. Under an $11million, 18-month charter arrangement, the Middle East firm will provide "a global oil major" with the platform supply vessel, the Topaz Faye.
Denmark has opened the door to its 7th Offshore Licensing Round with interested parties now invited to table bids with the Danish Energy Agency. The application period ends on October 20.
There are signs of a sea change ahead for the deepwater rig market as rates soften and, so it appears, contract terms might be shortening.
It appears that one of the deadliest greenhouse gases of all may be escaping from at least some shale gas production wells in the US.
Norway is not the only oil and gas producer that must raise its environmental game in the High Arctic; Russia must too.
The $28billion Stage-2 of the huge gas-condensate, BP-led Shah Deniz project offshore Azerbaijan has taken an important step forward with the award of contracts together worth more than $1billion to the local economy.
The UK's National Subsea Research Institute, originally launched back in February 2009, is being relaunched simply as the NSRI next month after significant re-engineering.
