The former head of Britain's elite SAS regiment said cyber attackers pose a clear and present danger to energy sector, with countries and compnaies at risk from crippling assaults on their infrastructure and systems.
All of the Canadian oil-sands facilities that workers fled last week as a wildfire spread are being allowed to prepare for restart as cool, humid weather has helped contain the inferno.
The chief executive of French energy giant EDF is to be quizzed by MPs today over the delay in making a final investment decision on the multibillion-pound Hinkley Point nuclear power project.
A minister in Brazil’s new government has taken a leave of absence after he was secretly recorded apparently plotting to oust the former president in a bid to stall a huge corruption probe.
The struggling oil and gas industry could unlock £1billion worth of revenues by developing new techniques for inspecting offshore infrastructure, a new report says.
The study said companies’ efforts to check installations for corrosion and inspect vessels used to extract oil and gas were being hindered by technology gaps, which were lowering efficiency and increasing costs.
It set out to identify new and existing technologies which could cut costs associated with these two key areas of asset integrity, without compromising on safety.
Aberdeen-based well engineering specialist Zenith Energy has been a awarded a long-term contract with Rockhopper Exploration to manage the abandonment of a platform well offshore Italy.
Iran, which is due to meet with OPEC partners on June 2, has no plan to join any freeze in crude output as the country won’t be done ramping up oil exports to pre-sanctions levels before the second half of the year, the head of the state oil company said.
Oil dropped for a fourth day as producers in Canada started the process of resuming operations after wildfires crimped output and as Iran continued to boost exports amid a glut.
More protests are expected in Northallerton as a decision is made on an application by UK firm Third Energy to frack for shale gas at its existing drilling site near the village of Kirby Misperton, between Malton and Pickering, North Yorkshire.
More than four in ten major financial service firms said their confidence has been knocked in the face of the slowing global economy, Brexit fears and a slump in oil prices - according to a report.
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund may be forced to step up divestments of coal companies and could face a wider ban on investments in other fossil fuels such as oil sands.
A submarine from the Egyptian oil ministry is heading to the site of the crash of EgyptAir Flight 804 to join the search for the cockpit voice and flight data recorders, or black boxes, the country’s president said.