The UK North Sea's Industry Technology Facilitator is primed to play a leading role in the generation of new oil&gas sector technologies worldwide by drawing together counterpart organisations from North America, Norway and Brazil at a summit in Aberdeen this week.
Do you ever read BBC economics chap Robert Peston's blog on the BBC website? I do because it provides some interesting insight into how the City is thinking or - as recent events would seem to prove - not thinking.
FRESH pipeline investment is crucial in Europe if gas is to be brought to markets from increasingly remote producing regions, warns the International Energy Agency.
Taqa - in Arabic, it means energy - burst on to the North Sea stage less that two years ago, and it was only launched in 2005 as a joint-stock company in Abu Dhabi and 51% owned by the government-owned Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA).
From my decidedly pro-nuclear perspective, I find it difficult to discern any negatives in the news that EDF, the French state electricity company, is taking over British Energy, owner of eight civil nuclear sites around the UK.
Jings, what a crazy world - it must be when one of the UK's largest hedge funds, Man Group, goes squealing to the regulator asking for protection from fellow piranhas bent on tearing it to shreds.
As I write this, banks, building societies and other financial institutions are collapsing all around.
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.
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.
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.
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.