Many visitors to Scotland are somewhat astounded to learn that inventors from our country have created some of the most important devices to improve our life in the modern age . . . the telephone, television, refrigerator, penicillin and MRI scanner, to name just a few.
Safety performance in the North Sea was celebrated at an award ceremony in the Ardoe House hotel near Aberdeen last night.
The politics of the oil and gas industry were covered in two days of debate at Aberdeen university, as part of the city's May Festival.
Scottish firms are hailing another successful trip to the world's largest oil and gas show in Houston in the US.
A cooking speed challenge in Aberdeen set no records but it did leave everyone hungry for the Press and Journal Energy Ball.
The old saying goes: "Everything is bigger in Texas" and that was certainly true at OTC this week.
Claire Cargill is attending her first OTC, but she is not short of advice in her business-development role with north-east specialist cleaning and equipment sales and rental company MSIS Group.
Award-winning engineering firm Ace Winches has identified the Gulf of Mexico region as having significant potential for business development.
Aberdeen-based TWMA continues to widen its global reach.
Oil and gas logistics firm Asco Group says the Americas region is going to be a big growth area for the business going forward.
The Herold report appeared during the dark days of the late 1990s when, of course, the jobs axe was being swung with some vigour on both sides of the North Atlantic.
All-Energy 2013, the UK’s largest renewable energy exhibition and conference opens in Aberdeen two weeks today.
James Milne talks to Ian Forsyth about his company’s return to OTC, and the UK Government’s lack of visible presence, in our video below.
Scottish business Balmoral Offshore Engineering (BOE) is targeting a worldwide market worth £20million a year with new equipment it has developed.
International energy service giant Subsea 7 is about to expand its Houston presence.
The goal is to have the first full-suite subsea factory operational by 2020, subject to the usual caveats. But as far as Statoil is concerned, actual delivery is a case of when, not if.
BP said today drilling had started at the Gila prospect near the firm's "giant" Tiber discovery in the Gulf of Mexico.
If anyone doubted there was a renewed sense of optimism in the industry, they need only spend a few hours here.
Mechanical engineering group EnerMech has spent more than £13million to increase its presence in the US and Mexico.
Flexlife is expanding into new premises in Houston.
Fergus Ewing MSP, Scotland's Energy Minister, speaks to Energy Voice about his trip to Houston for this year's Offshore Technology Conference.
Scotland’s energy minister dropped in on the Scottish Pavilion here at OTC today, clearly in ebullient form and rightly so.
French energy giant Total was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award at the OTC 2013 show for its Pazflor deep offshore development.
Nick Dalgarno is a managing director at specialist corporate-finance adviser Simmons & Co International
Being invited to take part and present at this year’s Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston is a real honour and a recognition of the dynamic oil and gas sector in Scotland.