Infinis Energy, a renewable-power company backed by Guy Hands’s venture capital fund, said it is holding off on a decision on whether to build two wind farms until Scotland decides whether it will remain part of the UK.
North Sea oil and the key role it will play after Scotland's independence decision has boiled to the top of the debate agenda as the historic vote in September approaches.
Skills shortages constraining business growth, concerns over the "great crew change", retaining talent - it's hard to miss these headlines when considering the future of the UK oil and gas industry.
With just few weeks to go before the independence referendum vote on September 18, many minds may be turning to the promise of a sovereign wealth fund in a newly independent Scotland.
One product of the various inquiries and reports which followed the Deepwater Horizon incident is the EU Directive on the safety of offshore oil and gas operations which came into force in July 2013.
We need a clear signal that the North Sea is open for business.
The bystander effect happens when a group of people don’t step forward or intervene when they should – seeing someone in distress in a public place for instance.
Last month brought a major announcement from regulator Ofgem that carried the glad tidings of the "green light" for a new £1.2billion link between Caithness and Moray.
I was disappointed but not actually particularly surprised that the now former minister of state for energy Michael Fallon decided to ridicule the nine months or so of effort that I and my fellow Commissioners put into the production of the report of the Expert Commission on Oil and Gas by calling it "copy-cat stuff".
Dementia is often wrongly seen as a condition affecting only the elderly and, as such, unrelated to business.
On July 28, the UK government launched its biggest ever onshore energy car boot sale . . . approaching half the land area of the British Isles with its population of 60million or so souls.
The Kurdistan Regional Government could double its oil production in the next year and triple it within a decade, according Goldman Sachs Group. The semi-autonomous region is currently locked in a battle with the Iraqi government over its right to export crude.
For the ill-informed grand job titles like Global President, Regional Vice-President, European Chairman, UK Director, Country Manager, Head and Senior Partner make prospects for increased status seems limitless. We must be near job-title hyperinflation by now. It’s fuelled by the need for non-cash benefits and the desire for credibility without authority. Our HR departments need a non-proliferation treaty to allow them to catch up with what all these titles actually mean.
A US judge ordered the seizure of more than $100million of oil stored in a tanker located offshore Galveston, Texas.
The health of oil and gas workers is to be put under the spotlight at a special event in Aberdeen next month.
Chinese companies remain undeterred by recent violence and will keep investing in Iraq’s energy sector, China’s Middle East envoy said today.
A North Sea oil worker plunged 2,000ft to his death after opening the emergency exit of a helicopter and jumping out.
The feed in tariff accreditation team at OFGEM must have been working all hours of the day and night to process the mountain of applications they got through in June. During the month, 13.25MW of hydro applications were processed, more than doubling the average for the year to date of 5.23MW. This will have a crippling effect on the hydro industry as the bumper month has triggered the threshold for accelerated reduction of the feed in tariff, the main source of support for developing green electricity from the UK’s rivers.
2009 Super Puma deaths were preventable, coroner says
Chancellor George Osborne will today announce plans for a “game changer” tax break to boost North Sea oil and gas exploration.
Tom Faichnie, partner and energy group member at Scottish independent accountancy firm Campbell Dallas LLP, discusses the opportunities for export of skills and technologies to Mexico as the country opens its doors further to international oil and gas operators and service companies.
A new helicopter model is set to start flying in the North Sea in weeks after getting the green light from the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
As modern Iraq collapses, the northern region of Kurdistan is emerging as an oasis of relative calm -- with plenty of oil to support its political ambitions for independence. With the advance of Islamist rebels deep into Iraq, autonomous Kurdistan is increasingly rejecting Baghdad’s claims over its oil. Last week Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani seized control of fields near Kirkuk, in the latest move by Kurdistan to assert control over the region’s oil.
Exploration in the North Sea has continued to plummet due to ever spiralling costs and firms taking a “wait and see” approach to new regulation and taxes, new research has found.
The Government’s Transport Select Committee recently published its report into offshore helicopter safety. It followed the deaths of four passengers when a Super Puma helicopter ditched into the North Sea on 23 August 2013.