To implement carbon capture and storage (CCS) successfully, each underground repository will need careful appraisal based on its unique history and setting, according to researchers from the University of Bristol.
A mere $23.6billion worth of upstream oil and gas deals was conducted on the global mergers and acquisitions market during this year's second quarter, according to analysts Evaluate Energy.
Two new investigations into whether or not fracking shales to produce gas can lead to water supplies pollution appear to take opposite sides.
Bermuda-domiciled but essentially Norwegian company Seadrill has ordered two high specification jack-up drilling rigs from Dalian Shipbuilding of China.
Control valve engineering specialist, Severn Glocon Group has strengthened its presence in the subsea oil and gas market with the acquisition for an undisclosed figure of HP/HT (high pressure/high temperature) downhole tools company Calidus Engineering.
Offshore contractor Ezra Holdings has secured a bag of contracts worth more than $500million through its subsea services (EMAS AMC) and offshore support services (EMAS Marine) divisions.
What is the value of the Falklands to London today, bearing in mind that the islanders have the right to determine their own future; it is they who will harvest tax revenues and royalties from Big Oil and NOT the British Treasury?
Barring final last minute adjustments, the conference programme for next month's Offshore Europe show is fully engineered.
Seven years from now, Maersk Oil hopes to have broken through the 400,000 barrels oil equivalent per day barrier compared with current output of something over 200,000 bpd.
Ace Winches, the north-east Scottish deck machinery specialists, is helping to promote engineering studies at a north-east school with the gift of a re-furbished industrial container to Alford Academy’s Young Engineers Club.
Japan's JX Holdings is reported to have encountered signs of non-commercial amounts of oil and gas with its first exploration well drilled off north-west Japan.
The Angolan capital Luanda has overtaken Tokyo to become the world's most expensive city for expatriates in a survey of 214 cities by Mercer, which cited security for pushing up costs.
Transocean has just added nearly $2billion to its near-$28billion backlog of work thanks to extensions of two ultra-deepwater rigs in the US Gulf of Mexico for Chevron.
Exclusive: The president of Mozambique, Armando Emilio Guebuza, is travelling to Europe's energy capital to fly his country's flag at a two-day conference at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre.
Tom Ehret has been a prominent figure in the subsea contracting community for decades.
Nordic group Wärtsilä has been taken on to design a new generation heavy construction vessel for Subsea 7. The ship is to be built by Hyundai of South Korea.
Aker Solutions has delivered the huge steel frame for the world's first subsea gas compression facility to be installed at the Statoil-operated Asgard field.
Drilling major Ensco has ordered a further $625million advanced-capability ultra-deepwater drillship based on the Samsung GF12000 hull design.
A total of £15,000 has been awarded to students in Scotland by the Society of Petroleum Engineers Aberdeen Section as part of its 2012-13 bursary programme.
Predictions of a massive shale gas and oil bonanza in the United States are being branded as overblown and unsustainable. Moreover, it is claimed that the US Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration has got its numbers wrong.
Hazlehead Academy pupils grab top awards at Big Bang
Keppel is to build a semi-submersible drilling rig for dedicated Caspian service utilising local resources.
UK independent, Afren, has made what appears to be a promising oil find offshore Nigeria with its first exploration well on the Ogo prospect.
Looking across the pond, it would be all to easy to think Britain can replicate the success of shale exploration in the US. However, as the story here unfolds, Jeremy Cresswell explains that it's not quite so simple.
Last Friday, a team from Eurocopter met the North Sea oil and gas industry's Step Change Helicopter Safety Steering Group to discuss a set of measures that the company feels will get currently grounded EC225 helicopters back to work.
