An independent Scotland would have to hike taxes or cut spending and is likely to face political pressure to adopt the euro as the price of EU membership, a leading economist has said.
Dozens of budding young scientists have engineered their way to success at an annual competition.
Catering firm Entier was presented with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise yesterday.
Demand for “posh pawn” services among hard-up oil executives is growing steadily in Aberdeen.
A huge and emotional outpouring of distressed and angry emails have been received by the leading offshore workers’ trade union RMT since a fatal helicopter crash in Norway killed 13 people last month.
Pilot error led to a fatal helicopter crash off Shetland that killed four people, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch said today.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch today said pilot error was responsible for a fatal offshore helicopter crash, which left four people dead.
Many school leavers in Scotland are being put off joining apprenticeship programmes due to widespread misconceptions about pay and qualifications, a study suggests.
A North Sea helicopter pilot who feared he would collide with a plane was forced to take evasive action – after a “relatively new” air traffic controller failed to tell him it was flying nearby.
Young people should consider how their skills transfer to the wider energy remit, according to the boss of industry body the Energy Institute.
In February last year, the formal launch of OGAS (established 2012) took place at the Scottish Parliament, where its fresh-out-of-the-box director, Rulzion Rattray, outlined the potential and new opportunities made available through the formation of the academy.
A ruling that investigators should hand over flight safety data from a fatal North Sea helicopter crash to Scotland’s leading prosecutor is being challenged.
A pilots' union is considering whether to appeal a landmark legal decision to release the black box recorder from the Super Puma which crashed off Sumburgh in 2013 killing four oil industry workers. The British Airline Pilots' Association (BALPA) is due to announce this week whether it intends to try and block the release of the recordings to prosecutors. Earlier, Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland successfully argued at the Court of Session that the black box should be released to the Crown Office in order to speed the investigation into whether any criminal proceedings should be brought in connection with the crash. Sarah Darnley, 45, from Elgin, Gary McCrossan, 59, from Inverness, Duncan Munro, 46, from Bishop Auckland and George Allison, 57, from Winchester died when the Super Puma crashed two miles off the coast at Sumburgh, in August 2013.
Sparking interest with Energy Voice readers this week was the news of Centrica's former chief executive joining up with the Carlyle Group and CVC Capital Partners.
This week's most read story on Energy Voice was Bob Keiller's editorial discussing the future of oil price alongside another penned by Jeremy Cresswell.
The most read story on Energy Voice this week was the news of BG Group's new contract on a flotel damaged by North Sea gales.
The story which sparked the most interest with Energy Voice readers this week was the news of BP placing North Sea operation staff on an equal time rota. The oil giant will now move to a three on, three off shift pattern. The move, which is also being considered by a number of other companies including Talisman and EnQuest, was announced to employees earlier this week.
This week Subsea 7 revealed it would be reducing its headcount by 2,500 in total in the next year. The move will see initial changes in both Aberdeen, London and Norway. With 410 positions are expected to go in the UK. Meanwhile in Norway up to 210 positions will go.
This infographic shows the price of a tank of petrol versus the average salary worldwide. The data reveals both North America, the UK and Scandinavian countries fair the best when it comes to cost whereas regions including Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Egypt suffer from a small margin between income and petrol cost.
The story which sparked the most interest with Energy Voice readers this week was the news of a renewables boost for Global’s Nigg Energy Park. Tidal devices for the Meygen project in the Pentland Firth will built and tested at the site in Easter Ross.
This week's most read story on Energy Voice was the news Wood Group was in consultation with its staff over a number of positions. The company said almost 100 jobs were at risk at the service giant. A consultation has been launched with around 380 staff, with 80 workers expected to lose their jobs. It is anticipated a further 12 roles will go in the company’s Wood Group Kenny subsidiary.
This week's most read story on Energy Voice was Loren Steffy's discussion on the news that Shell is to buy BG Group for £47million. In his editorial he reflects on what could have been should Shell have decided to snap up BP instead. The news of the sale initially began circulating earlier this month.
This graphic shows every oil and gas site around the world. The data, collected by the Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway, gives a mapped visualisation.
The story which sparked an interest with Energy Voice this week was Wood Group PSN's five-year contract award from EnQuest to provide engineering, design, construction, procurement and commissioning services in the North Sea. The work will be carried out on the Thistle, Heather and Northern Producer offshore assets and the deal includes extension options for up to five further years.
This week's most read story on Energy Voice was the news of the decline in Brent for the fifth day in a row before slowly rebounding.