South Africa’s Presidential Climate Commission said the energy ministry has an inadequate plan to tackle the country’s power supply crisis and its lack of attention to air quality and climate change puts it in conflict with the law and international agreements.
RoyalGate Energy has informed Equatorial Guinea that it intends to begin arbitration over Block Z, alleging “material breaches” from the Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons.
SNP leader Humza Yousaf is set to insist his party will strongly oppose Labour’s controversial plans to increase the windfall tax on oil and gas firms.
Air accident investigators have discovered issues with a flight recorder on board a helicopter whose blades were ripped off while parked offshore during high winds last year.
Trade body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) will hold “emergency summits” with operators and the supply chain this week over proposals unveiled by Labour to extend the windfall tax if elected.
Tower Resources is nearing the point where it will begin drilling in Cameroon, but the company has other opportunities it is also pursuing, chairman and CEO Jeremy Asher has highlighted.
The Scottish Labour leader insisted in his conference speech that the move is vital due to energy firms making huge profits as he strongly criticised the SNP.
Welding is set to be one of the energy transition's most prized skills, but the UK risks falling behind unless more projects and talent can be locked in over the next decade.
“There are more and more comparisons to be drawn” between the large-scale miner's strikes of the 1980s and the effects of Labour’s windfall tax hike, unions say.
By Steve Fernie, Strategic Programme Manager, Global Underwater Hub
As offshore wind continues to evolve, becoming one of our principal sources of low carbon energy, the available seabed space suitable for the installation of fixed turbines will shrink.
“We cannot afford to lose even 50 women from the energy industry” AXIS Network said following Aberdeenshire Council’s plan to end all out-of-school care.
The world’s largest carbon-capture project is at risk of never being built because of uncertainty about Canadian government incentives, according to Wood Mackenzie Ltd.