More than a dozen countries with crucial global shipping hubs agreed to ease port and border restrictions for seafarers to help the more than 200,000 workers still stranded on vessels return home.
The coronavirus pandemic has taken its toll on the world, with lives lost and economies shrinking.
More than 7,500 oil and gas workers have lost their jobs since the onset of the coronavirus crisis and tens of thousands more could go, industry leaders have warned.
Decom North Sea has announced the first post-Covid event to be held in person for Aberdeen's oil and gas industry.
Serica Energy has released a video showing life on board its Bruce platform amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Politians and union bosses have hit out at Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Job Retention Bonus scheme, with some claiming it does “little to nothing” to affect growing North Sea job losses.
Stena Drilling has confirmed it is making redundancies on four of its offshore drilling vessels, along with cuts to a number of roles onshore.
Very few people instinctively know what to do during a crisis.
The upheaval brought on by the health pandemic has had wide-reaching impacts.
Britain is “way off track” from meeting its 2050 net zero target, according to the Energy Institute.
Two years ago, on the 30th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster we wrote about the challenges facing the North Sea: the large, experienced operators replaced with new entrants to the world of exploration, production and operatorship, the tight budgets and contractor margins.
North Sea medics have revealed that a lack of PPE, verbal abuse from “worried” riggers and working 17-hour shifts are some of the issues they had to tackle at the height of the Covid-19 crisis.
There is a saying: “To err is human.” We make mistakes and this can lead to difficulties, even disaster.
The rapid global spread of Covid-19 has eclipsed other recent epidemics and market crises in size and scope.
Since the onset of the Covid-19 outbreak and oil price crash, huge amounts of pressure have been heaped on directors of oilfield service (OFS) businesses.
Europe’s oil giants came into 2020 promising shareholders they can “do it all” -- maintain generous dividends, keep the crude flowing and make a historic shift toward clean energy. Only one of them may succeed.
The coronavirus pandemic is of a scale and severity which none of us have seen before, but we shouldn’t take for granted the true value of the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry’s culture of safety.
Managing the risks of Covid-19 has been at the forefront of our minds in recent months. However, we must be careful not to be distracted from the ever-present potential of major accident hazards (MAHs).
North Sea industry recently had a week free of evacuations of workers with Covid-19 symptoms from offshore platforms.
An Aberdeen-based oil and gas duo who got together to form a new venture keeping business premises free of Covid-19 have already expanded to cover Inverness and Dundee.
Drager Marine and Offshore is set to inject cash into its Aberdeen facility despite the industry uncertainty created by the Covid-19 crisis.
Neptune Energy has awarded a subsea inspection contract, understood to be worth around £2million, to Fugro at its Cygnus gas field.
A focus on providing high quality virtual services to international clients is helping TRACS International shrug off the worst of the latest downcycle and replenish its order book.
A new survey has been launched by Platform and Friends of the Earth Scotland to hear from workers in the oil and gas industry and supply chain about how COVID-19 and the oil price crash have impacted their working life. Hundreds of workers have already responded, detailing their experience in the industry, their fears around job security and what type of future they want.
Ithaca Energy plans to shed a quarter of its onshore workforce after sinking to a £944m pre-tax loss amid the "historic collapse" of oil and gas prices.