Everyone likes anniversaries, so how about marking this one? On August 5th 1943, the Hydro-Development Act (Scotland) was given Royal Assent. Eighty years ago, at the height of war, the Government of the United Kingdom passed a momentous law directed mainly towards the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
The UK’s net zero ‘target’ is more than aspirational – the Secretary of State is subject to a legal duty to ensure that the UK reaches net zero by 2050.
Some time back I wrote that despite its self-appointed title as the oil and gas capital of Europe Aberdeen didn’t actually manufacture much of the sector critical technology.
The rising cost of energy has made us all think more carefully about how best to heat our homes. That is why there was a significant amount of interest when the Energy Secretary, Grant Shapps, recently announced the UK Government was likely to scrap plans to replace conventional boilers with a hydrogen-based alternative.
Making the most of the UK's resources is the best pathway to energy security and net zero.
The UK Government’s energy announcements this week have big implications for all parts of the sector and the drive towards Net Zero.
In a recent announcement, Rishi Sunak has highlighted the need for the United Kingdom to maintain a significant fossil fuel industry to avoid overreliance on foreign energy imports.
Scottish Energy Secretary Neil Gray has responded to the UK Government’s North Sea and CCUS announcements.
UK energy minister Graham Stuart discusses the government's CCUS investment and its decision to back further North Sea licences
The International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) announced earlier this month that they have begun work on a new standard contract form for offshore wind farm projects. A committee of experts including engineers, contractors and project specialists are working to produce the new contract, likely by the end of 2025.
Electrification of oil and gas platforms not only supports lower carbon emissions offshore, but it also has huge potential to deliver energy security through power back to the UK grid, writes Flotation Energy's Barry MacLeod.
After an Energy Voice report on HSE last month, Drager's Paul Davidson assesses some steps firms should take.
Namibia has recently gained significant attention as a result of the offshore discoveries by TotalEnergies and Shell in 2022. Namibia seems on its way to becoming a major oil and gas producer.
Owing in large part to the oil and gas industry built up over the last 50 years, Aberdeen and north-east Scotland has gained a global reputation for being pioneering, identifying and delivering innovative solutions for the sector that are the envy of the world over.
New UK fields are globally insignificant relative to hubs like Qatar, writes Graham Goffey, but the industry is economically important to the UK.
Keith Anderson, chief executive of Scottish Power, was on the radio the other day and I almost cheered.
Regulation of safety in the energy sector is uniquely challenging in high-hazard environments, particularly with increasing pressures to innovate to achieve the transition to net zero and provide energy security.
In October 2018, the International Energy Agency published a report on the future of the petrochemicals industry, arguing that it was a Cinderella in the global energy futures conversation.
In my view the integrity of the energy system is actually an issue of national health and safety in that its disruption would cause chaos and create a major threat to life as indeed the awful events in Ukraine have shown us only too graphically.
Mental health initiatives and support are often introduced reactively when there is already a problem.
The UK’s transition to renewable energy is well underway and we’re moving at pace towards our net-zero goals.
Parametric insurance addresses these challenges by enhancing investment certainty and facilitating cash flow, whilst protecting against the broadest range of potential perils.
The Titan sub situation is very rare, but swift action must be taken to ensure nothing like it happens again, writes a former subsea engineer.
Solving problems, working as part of a diverse team and delivering projects that really make a difference - engineering is an exciting professional choice.
Wind farms today are not generating the power indicated by energy yield assessments. A significant body of industry research is pointing to pre-construction energy yield assessments (EYAs) being overestimated, when compared to the turbines in operation onsite. One paper shows that European EYA assessments overestimate yield by an average of 8.9%.