A energy skills passport to help workers transition their training and accreditations from oil and gas jobs to similar roles in the renewables sector has launched and will be expanded across the UK.
Trade body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) confirmed a shift as decommissioning-focused businesses from the oil and gas sector to have turned their attention to wind and carbon storage.
University of Aberdeen research warns of potential impact from proposed EPL changes, but Treasury says it is "right that the oil and gas sector contributes" to UK energy transition.
By Malcolm Webb, former chief executive of Oil & Gas UK
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UK energy secretary Ed Miliband is set to visit Aberdeen on Thursday, promoting billions of potential funding and policy measures to support Scotland's energy sector.
The UK energy sector has welcomed confirmation that GB Energy's headquarters will be based in Aberdeen, but called for more clarity over the government's energy policy.
The decline in the North Sea tax base raises further questions over the £1.2bn per annum uplift in windfall tax revenues which the government has ear marked to fund GB Energy.
UK energy minister Michael Shanks has urged North Sea investors to "look beyond" the government's proposed windfall tax, despite warnings the oil and gas sector is "under threat".
60 years to the day since BP got its first licence to operate in the North Sea, Doris Reiter warns the 'basin will lose out' on jobs, investment and the energy transition unless government and industry get on the same page on taxes.
Industry and policy makers have a choice, either the UK North Sea faces a "premature end" or it could be a " shining example of how to transition an oil and gas province into a clean energy super basin".
The 3.7GW of offshore wind capacity procured in Allocation Round 6 (AR6) falls short of what the country needs to reach its net zero goals, according to trade body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK).