Anger is growing within the UK offshore industry including among vessel owners and drilling contractors over the Treasury's (HMT) bareboat charter taxation plan which, by its own admission will load additional costs on to the North Sea.
The Angus maritime gateway, Montrose, is in the throes of an overhaul that is progressively creating a port for the 21st century.
On February 26, Friends of the Earth put out a statement saying it is organising training days to "mobilise communities threatened with coal-bed methane and fracking".
So, Shell has put a further bunch of UK North Sea assets on the market. However, we should not be surprised at this. Anasuria, Nelson and Sean are regarded as mature and immaterial.
Press and Journal energy editor Jeremy Cresswell runs his eye over the big headlines coming from the opening day of the 2014 Subsea Expo at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre.
The Severn Barrage may be dead as a project, but Tidal Lagoon Power, the development company behind the proposed Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon in South Wales, says it has successfully completed two-dimensional physical model testing.
Paradigm Flow Services has logged another record breaking year with turnover rocketing to at least £10million versus £5.6million for 2012; while the Inverurie firm's EBITDA has leapt from £750,000 to around £2million over the same period.
American rig builder and operator, Helmerich & Payne, has bagged orders for yet more of its highly successful FlexRig land rigs for domestic operations.
The steep climb in upstream oil and gas salaries around the world appears to have gone into reverse with the latest analysis by Hays, teamed with Oil & Gas Job Search, recording a 1% drop to $81,184 for 2013.
The second and third of four super-drillships ordered by Maersk Drilling have been christened together at the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje-Si, South Korea.
It looks as if the global offshore rig market is starting to come off the boil after five years or so of burgeoning rates, especially for high-spec new deepwater tonnage.
Challenges will come from tightness in supply chain coupled with a huge 'inexperienced talent problem', Douglas-Westwood chief executive Andrew Reid tells Jeremy Cresswell.
The world renowned commercial diver and ROV technicians training specialist, The Underwater Centre (UWC) in Fort William, has strengthened its team considerably to take advantage of the currently buoyant market.
This month, February 1 to be precise, shiny new Costain Upstream was formally launched, with Keith Wallace at the helm.
Exclusive: KCA Deutag has won two major contracts in short order - a long-term deal with BP for the build and operation of new land rigs in Oman, and the largest-ever order for land rigs in the history of its German manufacturing subsidiary Bentec.
Tax shelters are usually created by government to promote a certain desirable behaviour, usually a long-term investment, to help the economy; in turn, this generates even more tax revenue.
Researchers in India have developed a relatively low-temperature process to convert certain kinds of plastic waste into liquid fuel as a way to reuse discarded plastic bags.
James Gladden of BG Group won the Young Technician of the Year category at the 2013 Oil & Gas UK Awards. Here he tells us why he joined the North Sea industry and why it could be a brilliant choice for those of you who are looking to make your first step into business and industry.
Oh dear, more lousy financials from Shell, writes energy editor Jeremy Cresswell
At last the penny has dropped with Oil and Gas UK regarding the real state of the North Sea.
Energy editor Jeremy Cresswell pays tribute to one of the North Sea's most remarkable survivors as Ithaca prepares to call time on the historic Beatrice field.
An Aberdeen student has won an inaugural oil industry prize thanks to her academic performance in the first year of a new course at Robert Gordon University (RGU).
The UK's Foreign & Commonwealth Office is planning a new consulate general compound, with office, residential accommodation and buildings services, in Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.
Chinese interests have gobbled up all but a scrap of Swedish design and engineering specialist, Bassoe Technology of Gothenburg.
Scientists have proposed an amazing system of mirrors, processed lunar soil and a heat engine to provide energy to vehicles and crew during the lunar night.
