New figures showing Scotland’s total oil and gas supply chain sales reached a record £22.9billion during 2014, over half of which was delivered via international activity, are a strong reminder of the important role the sector plays in Scotland and globally.
Leaders of the world’s largest suppliers of offshore drilling rigs and the services that go with them see the oil market recovery taking even longer than expected last year.
Augean, the specialist waste management businesses, announced its preliminary results for the year ended 31 December 2015, reporting increased revenue up 11% to £61.0million (2014: £55.0million) and a profit before tax increased by 12% to £6.0million (2014: £5.4million).
Troubled oil and gas explorer Genel Energy has received received a gross payment of $12.6 million from the Kurdistan Regional Government for oil sales during February 2016.
PetroChina, the country’s biggest oil and gas producer, and China’s largest offshore explorer Cnooc, may write down assets following crude’s plunge, analysts say.
Aberdeen well intervention specialist READ Cased Hole has launched a new time saving technology which it claims can save operators more than a day compared with other logging solutions.
A wave of projects approved at the start of the decade, when oil traded near $100 a barrel, have bolstered output for many producers, keeping cash flowing even as prices plummeted.
Scottish drone technology company Cyberhawk Innovations is poised for further expansion and diversification after a £2million funding package from Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks.
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Xcite Energy today confirmed a raft of changes to its Bentley field development plan in a bid to improve efficiency, cost effectiveness and deliverability.
The UK’s offshore pipelines and terminals were constructed to export production from the owners’ own oil & gas fields. Although tariff income was generated as third party owned fields were tied-back, that income was small relative to the revenue from the infrastructure owners’ own production. The field owners retained ownership of the infrastructure so that they could control the export route for their existing fields and for discoveries and prospects they may wish to develop in the future.
Oil fell for a second day, extending declines from a three-month high, as the number of drill rigs active in the U.S. rose for the first time in three months amid a global glut.
Statoil has awarded UK-based Balfour Beatty a £5.5million contract to deliver the onshore cable and substation system for its £180million floating wind farm project offshore Peterhead.
Two British ships have arrived in eastern Japan to transport a shipment of plutonium large enough to make dozens of atomic bombs to the US for storage under a bilateral agreement.