EFC Group of Aberdeen has designed, built and delivered a multi-million pound mechanical handling contract to provide a self-erecting "rigless intervention system (RIS), otherwise known as Mastiff for Baker Hughes, which provided the brief.
A consortium of business and public sector organisations in East Anglia has joined forces to bid for funding for energy industry firms to help take on and train new recruits.
NERC, the Natural Environment Research Council, is considering merging the marine and polar science functions by bringing together the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
When Zofia Korczak moved to Aberdeen to study it was with fashion management in mind - it did not take her long to see the opportunities a very different career in the oil industry could offer.
Scotland and Germany should work together to achieve their renewable-energy targets, Energy Minister Fergus Ewing told a conference in Bremen yesterday.
Pupils from across Caithness and Sutherland have visited the Dounreay atomic-energy site as part of a project to encourage young people into engineering.
Tens of millions of pounds of investment in smaller-scale hydropower projects in Scotland could be unlocked by the outcome of a review of a green-energy support scheme, industry leaders have predicted.
The upsurge in activity may appear in contrast to the national economic outlook but it has been gathering momentum since mid 2011 and is set to continue in the wake of contract success and investment announcements by energy sector companies, fuelling the demand for skilled workers.
The head of a leading Scottish conservation charity has added his voice to the rising chorus of protest against a proposed windfarm on the slopes of a Highland mountain.