The boss of a diversified manufacturing giant employing more than 110,000 people globally used a fleeting visit to Aberdeen yesterday to highlight the case for investing in a downturn.
Atlantis Resources, the Scottish firm behind the MeyGen tidal-energy project in the Pentland Firth, has followed up a £6.5million cash injection with new joint-venture in Indonesia.
The Scottish firm behind Europe’s largest consented tidal-energy project, the MeyGen development in the Pentland Firth, said yesterday it had raised £6.5million from a share placement.
Marathon Oil insisted last night it had still not submitted any plans for decommissioning one of the North Sea’s oldest producing fields to the UK Government.
Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire councils have teamed up to promote opportunities for north-east firms at the Offshore Northern Seas (ONS) exhibition, conference and festival in Stavanger, Norway, in August.
Sky-Futures, which flies drones around oil rigs and gas pipelines to check for any problems, said yesterday it was taking its technology inside potentially hazardous tanks used in the sector.
Delegate places at a two-day oil and gas industry conference in Aberdeen were all taken up less than two hours after the online booking process went live.
Aberdeenshire oil and gas well engineering consultancy Chris Dykes International (CD) has doubled its workforce – to two – after being snapped up by Danish firm WellPerform for an undisclosed sum.
Reports that a United Nations commission has ruled that Argentina’s territorial waters should be extended to include the Falklands hit the shares of South Atlantic oil explorers yesterday.
North Sea entrepreneur Tom Cross said yesterday he would “certainly be interested” in exploration and production assets currently owned by France’s Engie.
Scottish drone technology company Cyberhawk Innovations is poised for further expansion and diversification after a £2million funding package from Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks.