A north-east MSP has called for the Scottish Government to engage Westminster and provide clarity to North Sea firms over who qualifies for the Covid-19 furlough scheme.
The struggling UK oil and gas sector was dealt another blow on Tuesday as EnQuest confirmed it expected to cut 530 positions.
Around 200 oil workers are to be laid off – and staff are furious they are not being furloughed.
EnQuest has insisted its day-to-day operations are not “materially affected” by the coronavirus outbreak.
EnQuest today announced deeper cuts to its spending plans as it published full-year results showing it lurched into the red in 2019.
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The UK Government has approved a plan to decommission a North Sea development less than five years after first oil.
EnQuest is to delay publication of its full year financial results due to the coronavirus.
Oil and gas operator EnQuest is understood to have multiple suspected coronavirus cases on board a Northern North Sea platform.
The Financial Conduct Authority has asked companies due to announce annual results to delay publication because of the coronavirus.
More than a dozen UK North Sea projects are facing deferral in light of the oil price drop, an analyst has predicted.
Preparations for strike action at a key oil terminal in Shetland have been suspended after a new pay deal for workers was hammered out.
Oil firm EnQuest intends to permanently shut down its Thistle platform in the UK North Sea.
A group of North Sea operators have struck a deal with a helicopter operator to bring confirmed and suspected Covid-19 sufferers back to shore.
Offshore accommodation provider Prosafe will support the removal of subsea tanks from EnQuest's Thistle Alpha platform in the UK North Sea.
Oil and gas firm EnQuest has confirmed plans to decommissioning its fire-damaged Heather Alpha platform in the northern section of the UK North Sea.
Workers have voted “emphatically” in favour of strike action at the Sullom Voe terminal in Shetland.
Oil shares were decimated in London this morning after a crude price war erupted between Saudi Arabia and Russia.
A document has revealed that UK safety regulators flagged issues with EnQuest’s Thistle platform years before it was evacuated over subsea structural concerns.
A group of operators is making progress on plans to work together on the decommissioning of oil and gas infrastructure worth billions of pounds that sits east of Shetland, an industry chief said.
EnQuest has revealed plans to temporarily leave a pair of 1,200-tonne oil storage tanks from its Thistle platform at the bottom of the North Sea after structural concerns forced their removal.
EnQuest’s decision to cease production from its linked Alma-Galia oilfields effectively brings to a close a 50-year chapter in the annals of the UK North Sea.
Italian engineering services firm Saipem has been contracted to carry out work on EnQuest’s stricken Thistle platform in the UK North Sea.
Shares in EnQuest climbed today despite the company indicating production would drop slightly this year in light of North Sea platform shutdowns.
Serica Energy will shut down three North Sea fields for two months after discovering an underwater structure at its Bruce platform had become “deteriorated”.