The industry must start providing solutions to bridge the much talked about ‘skills gap’, according to a helicopter boss. CHC regional director for the West North Sea, Mark Abbey, spoke of curbing the divide as the firm welcomed its first batch of aspiring apprentices to Aberdeen
International oil body Opec should move its headquarters to Aberdeen if Scotland becomes independent, it was claimed yesterday.
As industry leaders gather at the year's flagship event, don't fall into the cocktail trap of empty deals and undeliverable promises.
Energy Voice caught up Demi Ademuyewo during one of her demanding training sessions.
Plexus Holdings has won a contract extension worth £900,000 to provide well head equipment and services to Centrica Energy Norway.
A leading academic yesterday described the SNP’s 18-month timetable for a divorce settlement between Scotland and the rest of the UK as “very, very tight”.
Robert Gordon University researcher Urenna Ekeh has developed an eco-friendly demulsifier aimed at turning by-products of oil and gas drilling into environmentally-friendly components.
After revealing Vroon’s new ‘walk to work’ concept, Energy Voice asked for your preference.
Energy Voice caught up with Reflex Marine as the offshore personnel-transfer specialist visited Aberdeen to showcase its latest transport device.
North-east school pupils are being invited to apply for a free week-long taste of what a career in the oil and gas industry is like.
In this final part of our thumbnail sketch of the North Sea, it falls to me to try to paint a picture of the future. So I raked around my desk drawer for the bag of rune stones that I keep especially for such occasions, gave them a rattle and scattered them on the floor.
These are worrying times for many in the North Sea with question marks hanging over one of its most fundamental activities of crew changes for offshore installations. It is everyone’s understandable wish to be able to travel safely to and from their place of work and discussions around this issue can be emotive, sometimes driven by fear and confusion about the actual risks
A visual guide to the state of the UK oil and gas industry.
With declining oil production, rising costs and a crisis in exploration, the North Sea is at a crossroads. Press and Journal Business Editor Ryan Crighton reports on what the industry needs to do to remedy its problems.
Professor John Howell, chair in geology and petroleum geology at Aberdeen University, explains why a 'Yes' vote is the only answer.
The brother of a man killed in a North Sea helicopter crash spoke of his family’s “five years of heartache” as he renewed calls for the operator to be prosecuted.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change is “not hanging about” as it puts in place the new energy regulator as proposed in a report on the North Sea led by Sir Ian Wood.
UK Government Energy Minister Michael Fallon has insisted major North Sea projects which underpin Britain’s energy security are “only possible” thanks to the union.
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The slump in North Sea exploration has coincided with a series of tax grabs by George Osborne.
The UK oil and gas industry has, for some time, operated within a tight labour market and the need to expand the talent pool has been talked about for many years, writes Aker regional president David Currie.
With declining oil production, rising costs and a crisis in exploration, the North Sea is at a crossroads. This week, Press and Journal Business Editor Ryan Crighton investigates what has gone wrong – and what the industry needs to remedy its problems.
An independent Scotland’s first annual pension bill would be “three times the income from oil”, according to former prime minister Gordon Brown.
Loren Steffy, author of "Drowning in Oil: BP and the Reckless Pursuit of Profit", looks back at the safety lessons learned in the wake of the Macondo disaster
The Russian Federation is playing a chess game with Ukraine that threatens to destabilize energy supplies to economies located west of Russia and their regional energy markets.