Swansea Bay, South Wales, could become home to the world's first, purpose-built, tidal lagoon power plant and, if built as envisioned, it would be capable of generating electricity equivalent to Swansea's entire domestic consumption.
The UK's Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has given away the opportunity to design a wind turbine floating support system to US firm The Glosten Associates.
Total has made its final investment decision for the $10billion Moho Nord development offshore Congo-Brazzaville, West Africa and issued key contract awards to Aker Solutions of Norway and Hyundai of South Korea.
Canadian company Ivanhoe Energy has teamed up with FPSO specialist SBM Offshore (SBM) to form a global strategic alliance combining their respective expertise to develop heavy crude floating, production, upgrading, storage and offloading vessels (FPUSO's).
Scottish Rig Inspection and training provider Aberdeen Drilling Consultants (ADC), in partnership with Aberdeen Drilling Schools (ADS), have become the first IWCF accredited online "learning to examination" provider for Level Two "Basic" Well Control training worldwide.
Offshore wind industry helicopter evacuation training in Germany is now being certified by a leading verification body.
A new titanium-based nano-technology wonder material can generate hydrogen, produce clean water and even create energy.
Statoil has signed a three-year contract for the Stena Carron drillship for exploration drilling on the pre-salt blocks (blocks 38 and 39) in the Kwanza basin in Angola.
A consortium of environmentalists, energy companies and other interests frequently at odds over fossil-fuel development onshore US has created a certification programme they say will hold shale-drilling companies to higher performance standards.
Oil Spill Response Ltd (OSRL) has taken the wraps off cutting-edge well capping equipment that can be deployed around the world in the event of a subsea well control incident.
Ceona, of London, Houston and Aberdeen, has placed a contract for the charter of a high-spec, new-build construction support vessel with GC Rieber Shipping of Norway.
In an important move for North Sea wind, Siemens Wind Power has received offshore prototype certification from GL Renewables Certification (GL RC) for testing its new six-megawatt offshore wind turbine at Dong Energy's Gunfleet Sands III demonstration project in UK waters.
Russian energy behemoth Gazprom Neft has contracted GSP Offshore's jack-up GSP Jupiter to drill in the Pechora Sea offshore northern Russia this summer.
It has emerged that the UK's strategically vital renewables sector will be forced to subsidise the nuclear revival, despite many critics saying that building new stations will never be economic.
An innovative new process that releases the energy in coal without burning . . . while capturing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide . . . has passed a milestone on the route to possible commercial use at a US university.
Pupils from an Aberdeen school got up close to helicopters and dressed in oversized survival suits as part of a tour of a hangar.
Solar cells may be at the threshold of becoming dramatically more effective thanks to nanotechnology.
The annual Celebration of Engineering and Science at Big Bang Scotland will be held on June 14.
Thomas P Burke Rowan Companies current chief operating officer, has been promoted to president, though he will keep the existing role too.
BG's drill-stem test of its Jodari gas discovery on block 1 offshore Tanzania has confirmed the "excellent" quality of the Tertiary reservoir.
Cameron has received an order from Petrobras worth some $600million for the manufacture and supply of 47 subsea trees and associated equipment for pre- and post-salt projects offshore Brazil, with deliveries starting next year. This single contract amounts to about 7% of a year's worth of business for Cameron.
Liquid Robotics, a provider of autonomous ocean robots and high-value ocean data services, has successfully raised $45million. The money will invested in growing capacity.
Currie & Brown has appointed respected energy sector figure George Murray as its "industry leader" for the oil and gas sector, based in Aberdeen.
While Shell has delayed its plans for drilling offshore Alaska, ConocoPhillips plans to go ahead with exploratory drilling in the Chukchi Sea next year.
Saudi Arabia is joining the hunt for shale-based oil and gas resources in a bid to sustain its number-one position in the global producer's table.
