We have to hold ourselves to the highest standards, or someone else will – BP North Sea boss
“At BP, I think we try to do the right thing,” says Emeka Emembolu, the energy giant’s North Sea boss.
Electrification
Alliance can be the glue holding together platform electrification hopes
An alliance exploring offshore platform electrification in the UK can act as the “glue” that binds together a range of stakeholder interests and make projects a reality.
Flagship DNV report laments ‘lost opportunity’ of pandemic to speed up energy transition
A leading technical body has lamented the Covid-19 pandemic as a “lost opportunity” for speeding up the energy transition.
Jersey resets timeline for flagship Buchan field over electrification plans
Jersey Oil and Gas is resetting the timeline for its flagship Buchan field, which had been due for an investment decision next year, in order to allow for electrification studies to take place.
Scot Gov opens survey into plans for offshore wind to power oil platforms
The Scottish Government has opened a survey into plans for electricity from offshore wind to power oil and gas platforms.
‘This is a big day’: Equinor brings Martin Linge field online after escalated costs
State-owned operator Equinor has celebrated the start of production on the Martin Linge oil and gas field after a big rise in costs.
Shell, BP, Harbour Energy and TotalEnergies team up for UK electrification study
Shell, BP, Harbour Energy and TotalEnergies are working together on platform electrification plans, it has emerged.
Hydrogen crucial for energy resilience
I live in a small village in beautiful Aberdeenshire. We have been known to suffer from power cuts here due to overhead powerline failures, storms and the occasional transformer committing hari-kari. These things do happen so, having had the importance of resilience hammered into me by my dad, who was an electrical supply engineer, I designed my energy system accordingly.
Regulators mull ‘ScotWind’-style round for wind projects to power oil platforms
Regulators are considering a “ScotWind”-type leasing round in the North Sea for wind projects to power oil and gas platforms.
Strathclyde Uni joins Shetland Orion project
Strathcylde Uni has come aboard the Orion project in Shetland, a scheme to see major oil and gas fields in the region go net zero and produce clean fuel for the islands.
Energy Transition: Setting targets is the easy bit – meeting them is the challenge
The phrase “Energy Transition” is now a central theme in climate change terminology, but transition to what energy sources and over what time period?
NEO Energy looking to electrification as part of carbon reduction drive
North Sea oil firm NEO Energy said today it would strive to cut the carbon intensity of its production operations in half by 2030.
Jersey sets out Carbon Policy to identify and report North Sea emissions
Jersey Oil and Gas (JOG) has taken further steps to underline its ESG credentials with a new “carbon policy”.
Transition deal boost for North Sea oil industry, but tougher scrutiny for explorers
A landmark £16 billion deal has given the North Sea oil industry a huge boost in its quest to transition to a low-carbon future.
Electrification among options in emissions-cutting study at Neptune’s Cygnus platform
Private-equity backed Neptune Energy has commissioned a study to review options for reducing the carbon intensity of its Cygnus platform, including electrification.
Weak grids expose risks for the electrification of everything
Home heating systems shutting down. Hospitals facing water shortages. Oil refineries going offline.
Aker Solutions bags major deal to electrify Equinor platforms
Norwegian energy service firm Aker Solutions will prepare the topsides of Equinor's Troll B and C platforms off Norway to receive electricity from shore via cable.
Electrification could have role to play in UKCS net zero future
With pressure from net-zero obligations now mounting, coupled with a growing awareness that it has a valuable energy transition role to play, the North Sea oil and gas industry would at last appear to be taking electrification of UKCS infrastructure seriously.
‘Serious intent’ to get major west of Shetland oil projects to net zero – Orion
West of Shetland operators are working with “serious intent” to get huge new oil projects “to a net zero outcome”, according to the head of a major clean energy scheme on the islands.
Zennor goes ‘carbon neutral’ ahead of first gas from flagship North Sea field
North Sea minnow Zennor Petroleum claims to have become one of the first UK operators to go “carbon neutral” as first gas from its flagship Finlaggan field beckons.
NECCUS gets £1.23m to develop emissions reduction roadmap with Shell, Chrysaor involved
A Scottish decarbonisation group has been successful in its bid to secure more than a million pounds to draw up an industrial emissions reduction roadmap.
‘We must start the new year more positively’, says Oil and Gas UK chief
Reflecting on Oil and Gas UK’s prediction that North Sea projects could take up to three years to return, the industry body’s chief executive, Deirdre Michie, said, “we have to start the year more positively than that.”
Electrification of older platforms as complicated as ‘open heart surgery’, Shell chief says
Shell’s UK North Sea chief has said the task of engineering ageing oil platforms to run on green power would be as complicated as “open heart surgery”.
BP counsel says energy transition is ‘enormous opportunity for lawyers’
The energy transition is an “enormous opportunity for lawyers”, according to the managing counsel for BP North Sea.
Top North Sea emitter UK needs to electrify its rising oil and gas output to reach climate goals
The UK Government has set a goal to reach net zero emissions by 2050.