Shell Selene well ‘sidetracked’ just after 2024 UK drilling activity started
Well Slot is a monthly feature where Westwood’s Stephen Coomber looks at drilling activity and rig moves in UK and Norwegian waters.
EPL changes not to impact Rosebank but will jeopardise ‘further investments’
Rosebank remains unchanged despite UK fiscal instability, however, future investment worth up to £10 billion may be impacted, said an Equinor boss.
WATCH: ONS and TotalEnergies face ‘the naked truth’
Protestors took over the TotalEnergies stand on the show floor of ONS in Stavanger in the latest in a string of “naked truth” protests.
EVOL X Entr at ONS 2024
Earlier this year Aker Solutions' consultancy business rebranded with a new name, Entr. Roddy Macpherson, the firm's senior vice president, speaks about what prompted the name change while Entr makes its ONS debut.
EVOL X Expro at ONS 2024
Expro is looking to forge ahead with CCUS operations and what better place to talk about that than Norway?
Why did Archer bring a race car to ONS?
Those attending the ONS conference in Stavanger this week will have seen plenty of eye-catching exhibitions but Archer's race car may take the cake.
GB Energy jobs ads go live as Shanks appears in Aberdeen
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has shared a number of Aberdeen-based job ads relating to Great British Energy.
Supply chain champion calls for £150m investment pot as Wood boss takes over
As Sian Lloyd Rees's time as the UK’s supply chain champion comes to an end, she recommends that the government sets up a £150 million funding pot.
Supply chain champion: ‘Enterprise opportunities will continue to be realised elsewhere’
Delivering her key report to the UK Government on Friday, Supply Chain Champion, Sian Lloyd Rees, sets out the case for creation of a new short-term funding mechanism to ensure the UK seizes a £1 trillion addressable market in renewable and low carbon technologies.
Wood and BP form alliance as work kicks off in the North Sea
UK supermajor BP (LON: BP) and Aberdeen headquartered engineering firm Wood (LON: WG) have formed a strategic alliance for work on global assets.
Continued delayed operator payments create ‘a master-slave relationship’
In 2023 more than a fifth of invoices sent to oil firms were paid late, continuing a “master-slave relationship” between operators and supply chain, according to unions.
Woodside, climate group agree to end Scarborough gas challenge
Woodside Energy Group Ltd. and the Australian Conservation Foundation agreed to dismiss the latter’s challenge to the development of the $12.5 billion Scarborough natural gas field off Western Australia.
Equinor partially evacuates North Sea platform following well incident
Equinor, the Norwegian state-owned energy firm, has evacuated some of the workers from the Gullfaks C platform and shut down production.
Inverness-based Aurora Energy Services expands into Chile with acquisition
Aurora continues it's M&A spree as it picks up a Chilean wind energy services business.
EnergyPathways ‘not been affected in a negative sense’ by windfall tax tinkering
EnergyPathways CEO Ben Clube is looking on the bright side of Labour’s windfall tax changes as he feels the winds of change blowing in the North Sea.
Mitch Flegg: Labour has right plan if it wants to ‘kill’ oil and gas and the supply chain
A senior North Sea leader has issued a chilling indictment of the UK Government's tax policies and the impacts it will have on jobs and key industry.
How will ‘the best ONS ever’ be topped?
ONS conference CEO Leif Johan Sevland discusses how his team are topping their best show yet with a bigger and better event this month.
LNG builder plans new UK terminal to help cut reliance on Europe
The UK is a good candidate for a new terminal to import liquefied natural gas because of growing demand and the desire to kick its dependency on pipeline supplies from Europe, the project developer said.
LNG tanker signals heading to europe from sanctioned plant
A liquefied natural gas tanker that recently docked at the sanctioned Arctic LNG-2 export facility in Russia is heading toward Europe, ship tracking data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Harbour reports $1.21bn in earnings for first half of 2024
Harbour Energy (LON: HBR) has revealed earnings of $1.2 billion in the first half of 2024 as it progresses with its Wintershall Dea acquisition takeover.
ORE Catapult on the hunt for new CEO
Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (ORE Catapult) is searching for a new chief executive officer following Andrew Jamieson's 12-year reign.
Shell hands Wood pre-FEED work on Middle East hydrogen project
Wood (LON: WG) has been awarded pre-front-end engineering and design (pre-FEED) work on Oman's Blue Horizons hydrogen project by the UK supermajor Shell (LON: SHEL).
Finch: Supreme Court ruling on ‘scope 3’ emissions: A game-changer for oil and gas planning law implications
On 20 June 2024, the UK Supreme Court delivered a landmark decision in the case of R (Finch) v Surrey County Council, requiring environmental impact assessments (EIAs) for oil and gas projects to include 'scope 3' or 'downstream' emissions.
Irish Sea gas developer EnergyPathways finds positive in EPL changes
Gas firm EnergyPathways (AIM:EPP) has shared its support for last week’s changes to the energy profits levy which prompted outrage from some of its peers.
North Sea divers set to commence two months of strike action
RMT Union's members working under the Offshore Diving Industry Agreement (ODIA) have voted in favour of strike action which is set to span two months.