Ping Petroleum is pressing ahead with plans to develop the Avalon field in the UK North Sea, hailed by bosses as a “pioneering scheme” to slash production emissions from oil and gas.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is due to hold a meeting on Friday on the windfall tax, Energy Voice understands, with oil and gas executives seeking a price floor to the levy.
Protestors have threatened to disrupt an OEUK industry awards event in Aberdeen this evening.
We were invited to the world premiere of The Rig – Amazon Prime’s new tv show set in the North Sea. We’ve tried to keep the following spoiler-free as possible but proceed at your own risk.
‘Various options’ are on the table as the partners behind the ‘disappointing’ Serenity field try to garner some value from the project.
UK oil and gas producers are lobbying for a price floor to be introduced to combat the negative impacts of the latest windfall tax, according to reports.
Doing away with hated shift patterns has been mooted as one way to help alleviate North Sea worker shortages.
A £118,000 a year decom job is up for grabs at the North Sea industry regulator, the NSTA, after a reshuffle of its top team.
Private-equity backed Havfram Subsea has named its new managing director for the company’s UK operation.
A bargaining agreement - covering Bilfinger UK's inspection teams working on Taqa’s North Sea assets – has been struck.
Offshore support vessel operator North Star is today announcing a £140 million finance package to support a “next wave” expansion of its renewables fleet.
Oil and gas firm EnQuest (LON: ENQ) has named a diamond and mining industry veteran as its new chairman.
Aberdeenshire-based Ashtead Technology (AIM: AT) has continued its acquisition spree, beefing up its mechanical solutions service offering.
When this edition of the Energy Voice supplement was published a year ago, the North Sea oil and gas industry was in the doldrums.
The Shell (LON: SHEL) Penguins FPSO has set off for its UK North Sea destination – but will first stop off at a yard in Norway.
"Looking ahead to 2023, it's pretty clear that what we are looking for is boredom”, says Addleshaw Goddard partner and co-head of oil and gas, Paul Jones, after the turbulence of the past 12 months.
As of 25 November, Westwood Global Energy reports that there are three exploration wells active, with one in the CNS, one in the NNS and one in the SNS. One appraisal well is currently active in the CNS. Since the previous report, one well has completed at Rockhopper.
Westminster’s hopes of spurring North Sea spend in the coming years could be derailed by one fundamental issue: a lack of available projects.
Ithaca Energy is preparing to pull the trigger on hundreds-of-millions of pounds worth of spend, should a handful of North Sea projects get the go ahead.
A pair of North Sea firms are preparing belated Christmas presents for the supply chain, in the form of decommissioning contracts.
A tightening labour market and a lack of available workers threatens to derail the UK’s energy transition, a key industry study is warning.
A host of North Sea environmental statements (ES), lodged between April and August, are still to be rubber stamped, with some expected to receive sign off before the year is out.
Most of the oil and gas produced in the North Sea is well below the basin's average for emissions intensity, fresh research has found.
Tory MPs have told Chancellor Jeremy Hunt that the windfall tax on oil and gas companies needs to be watered down to avoid an “existential threat” to the North Sea.
A duo have delighted the offshore community with a new song poking fun at life on the North Sea rigs.