Union leaders have urged oil workers to back proposals from firms over new shift patterns. In a letter obtained by our sister paper the Evening Express, the GMB union has proposed to members that three weeks on and three weeks off should be implemented offshore.
A woman whose home overlooks a wind farm in Aberdeenshire has claimed it was like living next to Heathrow Airport in London but with "none of the advantages". Rosemary Milne said her detached house was just 1,377ft away from the nearest turbine at West Knock near Stuartfield.
he Scottish Conservatives have claimed the SNP must acknowledge that people are "fed-up" with wind farm developments. The party's energy spokesman Murdo Fraser said turbines "springing up all over the place" damaged the landscape for thousands of residents and tourists. "In pressing on with their wind farm obsession the Scottish Government are failing to recognise that the planning process for these developments is a complete mess," he added.
Noreco has cut ties with its joint venture partners in Denmark. The firm confirmed it forfeited its licences and participating interests in the Nini and Cecile oilfields.
San Leon Energy is one step closer to leveraging its Moroccan stake.
Mexico has outlined plans to auction 244 onshore and offshore oil fields over the next five years in a bid to recover one million barrels of production by 2025.
Developers are sometimes under-assessing the impact of wind farm noise and appearance on residents living nearby, according to new research. The two-year study looked at how the visual, shadow flicker and noise impacts predicted by developers at the planning stage of ten wind farms across Scotland compared to the reality once operational. The test sites included wind farms at Dalswinton in Dumfries and Galloway, Achany in the Highlands, Drone Hill in the Borders, Hadyard Hill in South Ayrshire, Little Raith in Fife and West Knock Farm in Aberdeenshire.
Nortech Group has opened a new office in Aberdeen despite a recent market downturn. Managing director Bryan Bunn said the expansion was a vote a confidence in the city’s future.
Building a new runway at Heathrow will make it harder to solve the problems of air pollution and climate change emissions which the UK already faces, environmentalists have warned. The Government has been ordered by the Supreme Court to urgently produce a plan to improve poor air quality in the UK, which causes thousands of premature deaths and disease a year, to meet European Union legal limits. In the report backing a third runway at Heathrow, Sir Howard Davies warns that without action to tackle air quality, expansion could create pollution levels in 2030 that meant the UK was breaching the law.
Wood Group has landed a $1millon deal with Origin Energy for a natural gas project in Australia.
Noreco Norway has confirmed it will reduce its headcount by half.
Noreco Norway confirmed it has divested its 15% participating interests in the Norwegian shelf licenses PL274 and PL 274 CS to CapeOmega for NOK210million.
Statoil’s wildcat wells made oil and gas finds near the Gina Krog field in the North Sea.
Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) is in talks to secure funding for its North Sea exploration.
A defiant pensioner has vowed to “sit in front of a bulldozer” to prevent a key piece of infrastructure for Aberdeen Bay windfarm from being built on a former landfill site.
It is vital the country seizes the opportunity to “at least explore” the UK’s shale gas potential whilst maintaining the very highest safety and environmental standards, energy and climate change minister Andrea Leadsom has said.
Muhammadu Buhari’s election triumph has sparked “optimism and renewed vigour” in the Nigerian exploration market, according to Sirius Petroleum. The firm, which focuses on oil and gas development and production opportunities in the region, highlighted the regime change in its latest company results.
Samsung has won a construction contract for Statoil’s flagship Johan Sverdrup project worth NOK7million.
Technip has struck a deal with Jurong Shipyard to convert a shuttle tanker into a floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel.
Noreco confirmed its bid to terminate employee board representation at the parent company level has been successful.
Wood Group has acquired BETA Machinery Analysis (BETA) for $14.3million.
Prospects for the shale gas industry in the UK have suffered a setback after county councillors voted against plans for exploratory fracking. Energy firm Cuadrilla had wanted to frack and test the flow of gas following drilling at up to four exploration wells at a proposed site between Preston and Blackpool.
The Government is not doing enough to protect people from the increasing risk of heatwaves and flooding due to climate change, it has been warned. Despite efforts to prepare the UK for the impacts of a warming world, government advisers the Committee on Climate Change warn more needs to be done to conserve scarce water supplies and fertile soils and protect against floods and high temperatures.
The UK Government is under growing pressure to scrap a controversial decision to end new on-shore wind farm subsidies. Cross-party MSPs have signed a motion laid at the Scottish Parliament which “condemns” the announcement to close the renewables obligation from April next year. It claims the move was taken without consulting the renewables industry or the Scottish Government and would put an estimated 5,400 jobs and £3billion in investment in danger.
An oil worker stranded in Azerbaijan is "hopeful" that a solution could be found to bring him home next week. Wick man Mark Munro, 30, and Allan Tait, 21, from Aberdeen have found themselves trapped in the country's capital Baku. They were caught up in a nightclub fight, which has left them with travel restrictions until the situation has been resolved.
