This year’s Earth Day was cause for optimism in our fight against the climate emergency. With climate change now well and truly upon us, Earth Day 2021 saw the most significant renewal of pledges to tackle the crisis by national governments since the Paris Agreement of 2015.
Picture the scene. You are at a swimming pool. There are two lifeguards on duty. You learn that one of them recently saved the lives of two people, on separate occasions. The second has never had to perform an emergency rescue. But which is the ‘better’ lifeguard?
Last month’s OGUK HSE Conference was inevitably going to involve discussions on Covid. It is inevitable, but also incredible, to reflect on how fast the industry adapted and worked together to manage the pandemic.
A revision to the UK Government’s right to work policy framework is causing bemusement among some businesses – primarily because it may be seen to override some of the safety principles behind the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions, says Kelly Hardman, an Edinburgh-based Solicitor at global immigration law firm Fragomen.
A few days ago I happened to wander down the road to Aberdeen Energy Park and then popped into the Core business park development for good measure.
The American novelist and activist James Baldwin said: “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced”.
I often get asked, “why use biomass for energy when it is more expensive than other renewables?”
Producing blue hydrogen carries a very poor round trip efficiency. Natural gas is reformed to hydrogen, the resultant CO2 emissions are captured and stored, the hydrogen is treated, compressed, stored and distributed to households where it is burned for domestic heating.
Reading political party manifestos is, it must be said, a duty rather than a pleasure. So much verbiage, so little prospect of the vast majority of it ever being fulfilled.
The decision by the French company EDF to award London-based InfraStrata a contract for eight of the 56 foundation jackets for the NnG offshore wind farm has got a lot of people extremely excited.
Subsea 7 has confirmed 10 crew members on a North Sea supply vessel have tested positive for Covid-19.
The IPIECA-WBCSD SDG Roadmap establishes collective oil and gas sector pathways to supporting the realisation of the SDGs.
Shirley Allen, partner at Pinsent Masons, takes a look at the legal questions surrounding decommissioning and repurposing of North Sea assets.
Dozens of North Sea workers have been flown home after an outbreak of Covid-19 on an accommodation vessel.
Securities litigation, long a prominent – and expensive – feature of jurisdictions such as the US, is increasingly emerging as a threat within the English litigation landscape.
The Scottish Government has decided not to let up quarantine rules for oil and gas workers returning from overseas, deciding that doing so would be “too risky”.
As it continues to grow its track record of contributions to Scotland’s renewables mission, the offshore wind sector is currently making all the right headlines.
When the oil and gas industry says that we’re part of the solution to the global need to transition to lower carbon energy sources, we mean it, and we evidence it with our actions. However, many people automatically dismiss anything coming from our industry, or label it “greenwashing”.
A company director has voiced concerns after he was given a rapid all-clear Covid result –before he had even taken a test.
In exactly 200 days, world leaders will convene in Glasgow for arguably the most important environmental meeting to ever take place on British soil.
After losing his job last year due to the pandemic, an Aberdeen engineer is using his recent success to offer those in a similar situation employment.
With climate change increasingly on the corporate agenda, large businesses are now considering how they procure energy and whether they can do so more sustainably.
The pathways for economic recovery post Covid-19 offer plenty of opportunity for hope and potential for growth, as well as greater gender inclusivity.
Articles on hydrogen are commonplace in today’s scientific and general media. Hydrogen is touted as a net zero silver bullet with the following claims.
One of the conundrums of the pandemic has been how the M&A market has carried on apace, and indeed in some parts of the economy it is very active.