Both of the two drilling rigs employed by Shell in its Beaufort and Chukchi Seas campaign last summer off Alaska are to be sent to an unspecified yard in Asia (said to be South Korean) for repairs and upgrades.
Researchers in Italy and the UK have just reviewed the economic, social and environmental impact of hydro, coal, oil, gas and nuclear power and demonstrated that the renewables option is best.
A crop of new subsea construction vessels are on order or just delivered, primarily to Norwegian account, notably Solstad, DOF Subsea and Farstad.
Siemens has further reinforced its commanding position in the North Sea by winning another big order for wind turbines, this time 80 units for the Butendiek project offshore Germany.
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Sam Cavender was 16 when he decided on a career in IT, but the schoolboy from Great Yarmouth knew he really wanted a hands-on job figuring out how things worked.
A new scholarship scheme launched by energy services company Halliburton will enable students from sub-Saharan Africa to gain all the benefits of postgraduate education at the heart of the mature North Sea industry.
Pipe Rider - Fast paced racing in gas pipelines! You are 1,000 meters below sea level at the Shell Ormen Lange gas field.
Dozens of S3 pupils faced the fire of the Dragon's Den when they went head-to-head with top business leaders last month.
Scientists think that the prickly sea-urchin may be able to help us in the fight against global warming.
The EU wind energy sector installed 11.6 gigawatts (GW) of capacity last year, bringing the total wind power capacity to 105.6 GW, according to the latest figures issued by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).
A north isles wave and tidal-energy test centre has been given a £4.1million expansion grant by the Scottish Government.
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) is working with Edinburgh-based Pelamis Wave Power on a £1.4million project to reduce the costs involved in generating electricity from the waves.
The development of wave and tidal energy in Scotland is threatened by a lack of UK Government support, an industry report has claimed.
Three business leaders have been appointed as directors to the board of Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (AREG).
Scottish energy technology companies have been urged to take advantage of a funding pot potentially worth millions of pounds to drive down the cost of offshore windpower.
Plans to breathe new life into a disused Highland fabrication yard could create more than 2,000 jobs, a site boss said yesterday.
Helius Energy said yesterday it anticipated its £60.5million new biomass processing plant in Moray to be operational by the end of June.
Aberdeen-based offshore energy service firm Specialist Subsea Services (S3) has more than doubled its turnover from £4.8million to £12million in the past year.
Former UK Energy Minister Charles Hendry is to become chairman of the firm behind plans for a major offshore wind farm in the UK.
Rotawave, the UK company behind innovative technology to produce biocoal, is challenging a report claiming that burning trees is bad news for the planet.
Phase two of a joint industry project that focused on identifying advanced techniques developed by the signal processing research community and applying them to seismic processing problems, with the ultimate aim of easing the detection of by-passed hydrocarbons and aiding identification of satellite fields, has just been concluded.
Apache's Craig Wood was 2012 Oil and Gas UK Awards Young technician of the year.
The UK's Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has struck a deal with Blade Dynamics to develop and demonstrate the technologies for constructing what are billed to become the longest wind turbine blades ever built.
It may soon be possible to charge mobile phones, change the tint on windows, or power small toys with peel-and-stick versions of solar cells, thanks to a partnership between Stanford University and the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).