A good place to start is back in early summer, when everything in the garden looked rosy. Simmons, as a global firm, had just completed its best year ever (our fiscal year ends in June), with both the corporate finance and securities businesses recording record revenues.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has just published a major new study into global gas markets and paints a picture of rising demand and rising prices, especially in gas-deficient economies such as the European Union.
Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority has said that StatoilHydro's Statfjord A production platform had a close call with disaster earlier this year when an oil spill within the utility shaft resulted in build-up of explosive gases within the huge concrete structure.
DUTCH heavy-lift specialist Jumbo reports that the latest addition to the fleet, the 144m Fairplayer, has recently arrived at Huisman, in Holland, to have a pair of 900-tonne cranes fitted.
Nautical Petroleum is confident that the Kraken appraisal well currently drilling on UK North Sea Quadrant 9 will lead to a sizeable heavy crude field development.
THE fourth new North Sea field to be brought on stream by Shell UK this year has achieved production start-up.
SIBIR Energy, the UK-listed oil operator which is 100% focused on Russia, said yesterday that in the first half of 2008 it had already achieved 84% of the record financial performance of the whole of 2007.
Oil service company Senergy Group, of Aberdeen, has unveiled its fourth acquisition of 2008.
Perhaps unsurprisingly for someone who gives so much time and effort to an ambitious football club, Keith Moorhouse peppers a discussion of his other prominent role with numerous sporting analogies.
Aberdeen company First Oil, owned by multimillionaire businessman Ian Suttie, now says it is the largest private UK firm producing oil and gas from the North Sea.
THE chief executive of TAQA will tell an audience in Aberdeen today that he would like to see the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company soon in a position where it has daily production of 150million barrels of oil equivalent from the North Sea and proven plus probable reserves of some 200million barrels.
ABERDEEN company ROVision has completed its first subsea inspection job for Rowan Drilling at Dundee and has more work in hand for the same company.
OIL production has been suspended indefinitely in two fields in Azerbaijan as a result of a gas leak - halving output from a group of offshore deposits in the Caspian Sea.
Pressure is mounting on Chancellor Alistair Darling over tax changes which could hit thousands of offshore workers.
A NORTH-EAST cancer charity's appeal to build a new support centre has been given a massive boost after an energy services company pledged £20,000 to the cause.
First Minister Alex Salmond last night promised a massive economic boost for the north within a generation, as plans for a major marine energy development in the Pentland Firth were unveiled.
Ramco Energy, which recently refocused as an energy investment company with a strategy of investing in both oil and gas and renewable energy, said yesterday it was delighted with the progress made since it announced its new vision.
A young Aberdeen oil service firm yesterday revealed ambitious expansion plans.
SCOTTISH Gas today announced a major expansion of its training academy north of the border and the doubling of recruitment of apprentice gas engineers over the next year.
Hallin Marine said yesterday oil and gas producers were continuing to push forward with offshore construction projects and drilling activity remained at a record high.
ENCORE Oil said yesterday it had focused attention this year on the delivery of its strategy; the key elements of which are to maximise the potential of assets and to monetise them at the appropriate time to create the greatest shareholder value.
Shell has begun downmanning facilities in Nigeria after a dramatic 24 hours of violence which saw a north-east businessman snatched from his home.
Faroe Petroleum, the Aberdeen-headquartered oil and gas company, said yesterday its latest exploration venture was targeting a significant prospect in a prolific area of the central North Sea.
AN OIL and gas leader wants to fuel the imagination of young people studying science by highlighting opportunities for them in the industry.
Aberdeen-based law firms and firms with Granite City offices are highlighted in The Legal 500 as the key players in Scotland in the oil and gas sector.