Third job for energy minister as Fallon handed Portsmouth role
The UK minister in charge of overseeing the North Sea oil and gas industry has been given a third government job.
The UK minister in charge of overseeing the North Sea oil and gas industry has been given a third government job.
Tributes have been paid today as oil companies marked the one year anniversary of the terrorist attack in Algeria which killed 40 people.
Dubai-based rig builder Lamprell says it expects final results for 2013 to be ahead of initial expectations.
A Danish project engineering company is to set up a £5million rig refurbishment base in the Cromarty Firth in the Highlands.
Bond engineers were “cautious about everything” in the days leading up to the fatal 2009 helicopter tragedy amid ongoing investigations into an earlier crash, a fatal accident inquiry has heard.
Npower has continued to receive the highest number of complaints among energy suppliers - around eight times more than the best performing company, figures show.
Demand for energy is going to rise by more than 40% over the next 20 years, according to BP.
Energy industry body Oil and Gas UK has published a new handbook listing a dozen British construction yards in a bid to raise the sector's profile in home and international markets.
Almost half of UK homes would object to having a shale gas operation within 10 miles of their home, a new survey has claimed.
Seismic specialists SeaBird have landed a £3million contract to carry out scans around the Gulf of Guinea.
New regulations aimed at preventing further oil train explosions in the US are set to be introduced by next year, American transport chiefs have revealed.
British-focused oil explorer UK Oil and Gas is to take a 10% stake in two onshore licences after buying up a pair of development firms.
READ Cased Hole – the leading North Sea well integrity logging specialist – has appointed Roy Martin as chief executive.
Prime Minister David Cameron has said it would be a “huge mistake” to ignore the potential of a pioneering green energy technology that is due to be developed in the north-east.
Keeping the workforce and their families “informed and comfortable” on the latest updates regarding helicopter travel, is key to Step Change in Safety’s work, said the body’s co-chair.
The fatal accident inquiry into the 2009 North Sea helicopter catastrophe continues to focus on the events surrounding the discovery of a metal fragment in the gearbox just weeks before the aircraft crashed.
Three crewmen have been rescued from a boat which caught fire at sea.
One of the directors of energy watchdog Ofgem's supervising body has joined Falklands oil explorer Rockhopper.
The proposed Peterhead carbon capture and storage (CCS) scheme could become a template for other companies looking to reduce negative effects of the energy industry on environment, believes the project’s development manager.
Aberdeenshire-based Ferguson Group has appointed a team of industry and product experts to its team.
Aberdeen-based energy service company Centrigues Un-Limited today announced plans to expand into the Middle East.
Proposals to force UK consumers to subsidise renewables in an independent Scotland, and buy back energy to keep the lights on, have been branded “wrong-headed” and “unworkable”.
Maintenance guidelines introduced since the 2009 North Sea helicopter disaster would have led to the immediate grounding of the doomed Super Puma.
Oil and gas engineering group Woollard & Henry is set to hire 20 new staff as it looks to meet demand from the energy industry.
A North Sea accommodation service vessel involved in the salvage operation of the wrecked Costa Concordia is now looking for a new charter.