Simpson & Marwick has boosted its employment-law division with the addition of seven new partners in recent months. Sandy Kemp, who leads the law firm’s employment team, tells Ross Davidson how oil and gas has boosted the company’s fortunes in Aberdeen and how the legal profession might have lost him to music.
Prosafe has landed a near-£50million contract from Statoil to provide accomodation for the Mariner project in the North Sea.
The UK oil industry has applauded European ministers for backing a package of EU-wide offshore regulations.
Drilling contractor Ensco has ordered another ultra-deep water drillship to meet growing worldwide demand.
UK fabrication firm Sembmarine SLP has built a replacement helideck for a North Sea platform.
Energy engineering firum Plexus has agreed a £2million deal to supply its wellhead system to Det Norske Oljeselskap for two new wells.
Engineering and project-management firm Amec said yesterday it had signed a £110million contract extension with BG Group in the North Sea.
A second huge barge which hundreds of oil workers will call home arrives in Shetland later this month.
Nearly 30 workers at a collapsed energy service business in the Highlands breathed a sigh of relief yesterday after it was bought out of administration.
Oil and gas operator Parkmead Group said yesterday it remained confident of acquiring Lochard Energy despite dissent among some shareholders in the smaller firm.
Aberdeen drilling contractor KCA Deutag has taken a £20million hit over the past two years because of civil war in Libya.
US energy business GE Oil & Gas has signed a £54million deal with Pemex to support the operator's Gulf of Mexico projects.
A new chief executive has joined Cromarty Firth Port Authority.
The former boss of Chevron in Aberdeen has retired after 35 years with the business.
Offshore workers received more information on helicopter safety from the Press & Journal than their own companies, the Step Change in Safety study revealed.
Norwegian energy giant Statoil has put the brakes on a huge Arctic project.
Drilling contractor KCA Deutag has won a North Sea deal worth up to £1.4billion.
Nearly nine out of 10 offshore workers have lost confidence in the model of helicopter involved in two North Sea ditchings last year.
The head of GDF Suez's UK oil and gas business has urged the government to introduce further tax breaks for North Sea exploration.
Energy majors BP and Shell are facing a court battle over allegations of oil price fixing.
Energy service giant Wood Group said yesterday it would create 100 jobs after winning a £24.5million contract in America.
More than 3,500 young people have applied for one of the oil and gas industry’s top training schemes.
A Scottish fabrication business is to recruit 100 people after winning another lucrative contract for a major North Sea gas project.
Scots will be relying on a volatile revenue stream to pay for new hospitals and schools if they vote for independence, the UK energy secretary has claimed.
An Aberdeen energy service business said yesterday it wanted to recruit more than 200 people after buying £100million of new vessels.
