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Capricorn Energy to slash 120 UK jobs

Denmark asks Nord Stream 2 to help identify object near blast

By Bloomberg

Renewables and Energy Transition

Features

Sweet 16: The key North Sea projects due to come onstream before 2027

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The East Med’s export problem

The SIRI Platform is part of Denmark's Project Greensand CCS development

Ineos to ‘use the learning’ from Danish CCS project to inform Aberdeenshire’s Acorn

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Samantha Jayne Nelson, OIM for the Shell Penguins project in the North Sea, completed her transition 15 years ago.

D&I champion and offshore worker Samantha Jayne Nelson to speak at cHerRies Conference

By Erikka Askeland

Decom Week 2023 to facilitate operator-supply chain conversation

By Reporter

Lara McGrath from UK Export Finance speaking at ETIDEX 2022 session 1 - Energy Transition Forum

Accelerating green exports in the UK

By Reporter

Opinion

Time to move forward with confidence to deliver on the potential of ScotWind

By Andy Macdonald, director of development and operations, ORE Catapult

Chancellor’s new support will be ‘defining moment’ for UK CCS

By Stuart Haszeldine, SCCS Director and Professor of Carbon Capture & Storage, University of Edinburgh

Offshore wind farm logistics risk becoming a quayside carpark

By Alex Fyfe, managing director, Heavy lift Projects Ltd

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Businesses around Chapel Street have seen a boost from the new Shell office, including Michael Wood's West End Chocolates sandwich shop. Image: Andy Morton/DC Thomson

‘I’m very happy they are here’: New Aberdeen Shell office turns Chapel Street into lunchtime hotspot

23/03/2023

By Andy Morton

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Staff at the new Shell HQ on Aberdeen’s Union Street are still bedding into their city centre home.

Events

Five key themes for Green Heat

23/03/2023

Heat pumps won a seal of approval from the panel, but the verdict on hydrogen was more bleak for meeting domestic demand.

North Sea

Serica moves into list of top 10 North Sea producers after formal completion of Tailwind deal

23/03/2023

London-listed Serica Energy (LON: SQZ) has formally completed the previously announced takeover of Tailwind Energy.

Space Solutions delivered a new look for Piper Sandler in Aberdeen.

Energy finance firm is given office makeover

23/03/2023

By Keith Findlay

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The Grade B offices of energy finance firm Piper Sandler in Aberdeen have been given a major makeover.

Our Union Street will be headed up by business chief Bob Keiller in a bid to try to breathe new life into the Granite Mile.

Who is Bob Keiller? The blockbuster resume of oil boss ‘mad enough’ to try and save Aberdeen’s Union Street

23/03/2023

By Ben Hendry

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Could Bob Keiller be the man to save Union Street?

North Sea

Harbour Energy appoints two new independent non-execs

23/03/2023

London-listed oil giant Harbour Energy (LON: HBR) has announced the appointment of two independent non-executive directors.

Oil pipes at the Viru Keemia Grupp AS (VKG) oil shale processing plant in Kohtla-Jarve, Estonia, on Tuesday, June 7, 2022. Oil hit a three-month intraday high on Monday amid rebounding demand from China and a significant tightening of the market following Russia?s invasion of Ukraine. Photographer: Peter Kollanyi/Bloomberg

Crude oil snaps three-day advance as traders digest fed outlook

23/03/2023

By Bloomberg

Oil fell as investors weighed the Federal Reserve policy outlook after another hike and digested a mixed snapshot of US supply and demand.

Thousands of retired Shell employees - many who would have worked at its old North Sea HQ in Tullos - are furious after the firm declined to top up payments in line with inflation. Pic: Shell's office complex at Tullos, Aberdeen.

Fury as north-east pensioners left out of Shell profit bonanza

22/03/2023

By Erikka Askeland

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Workers who have retired from Shell (LON: SHEL) are furious after the oil and gas giant declined a rise in pension payments despite booking record profits and paying out huge bonuses to staff.

CCU International lands six-figure deal with Unilever-SCI consortium

22/03/2023

Aberdeen-based carbon capture firm CCU International has landed a six-figure deal with a group led by consumer good multinational Unilever and the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI).

Multiple injured as former subsea industry ship topples in Edinburgh dock

22/03/2023

Dozens were injured yesterday after the RV Petrel research ship, formerly known as Subsea 7’s Seven Petrel, toppled while in a dry dock in Edinburgh.

Petrofac workers on BP assets take strike tally to 1,500

22/03/2023

The strike action set to hit the Nort Sea has grown as Petrofac Unite Union members on BP installations have voted to take industrial action.

Big oil traders stay circumspect on reviving Russia dealings

22/03/2023

By Bloomberg

The world’s biggest oil traders said they’re wary of trying to muscle back into Russian exports, a response that might disappoint the US Treasury officials working to ensure no disruption to global petroleum supplies.

North Sea

Hartshead strikes deal to use Shell platform as tie-back host for North Sea gas fields

22/03/2023

Renewables/Energy Transition

Australia’s Hartshead Resources (ASX:HHR) has struck a deal with the Shell (LON: SHEL) to use the latter’s Leman Alpha platform as a tie-back host.

Rigs & Vessels

Diamond Offshore rig returns to work with Shell UK

22/03/2023

By Reporter

A Diamond Offshore (NYSE: DO) drilling rig has returned to work with Shell in the UK North Sea following repairs.

NECCUS CEO Ronnie Quinn addresses the Scotland Net Zero Roadmap launch event in Edinburgh.

NECCUS unveils roadmap to decarbonise three-quarters of Scotland’s industrial emitters

22/03/2023

By Andrew Dykes

A new roadmap calls for up to £9bn of investment to help decarbonise Scottish industrial sectors, but again highlights the essential role of the Acorn project in the cluster’s approach.

The wreckage of the Piper Alpha platform

Offshore maintenance backlog creates ‘potential for a major accident’

22/03/2023

Maintenance backlogs on offshore installations peaked following the pandemic and have never returned to pre-covid levels, health and safety watchdog has warned.

North Sea

UK annual energy imports bill crashes through £100bn threshold for first time ever

22/03/2023

For the first time ever, the UK shelled out more than £100 billion on annual energy imports in 2022.

‘We should be ashamed of ourselves’ if industry fails to share incidents

21/03/2023

“We should be ashamed of ourselves if we let our lawyers stop us from sharing things that can save people, businesses and lives,” a top North Sea safety boss has warned.

Rigs & Vessels

Aberdeen rig work secures 40 jobs for Semco Maritime

21/03/2023

Renewables/Energy Transition

Work on an oil rig stationed in Aberdeen has secured dozens of jobs for contractor Semco Maritime.

Masdar signs up Adnoc Drilling for geothermal push

21/03/2023

Studies from Masdar highlight the importance of new drilling and completions technology to control costs.

Offshore

Tunisia president seeks to claim Libyan oilfield stake

21/03/2023

Aoun said Saied’s comments might refer to the continental shelf, rather than the Bouri field. Tunisia and Libya have established the Joint Oil company to work in this area, although this has not made any progress in recent years.

Rigs & Vessels

Blackford Dolphin kicks off drilling in Nigeria

21/03/2023

Health, Safety & Environment

Once the Blackford Dolphin completes its work for General Hydrocarbons, it will stay in Nigeria for work with Peak Petroleum, at a higher day rate.

‘Someone could have died’: TotalEnergies opens up on Storm Otto helicopter incident

21/03/2023

“We cannot let the fear of judgment get in the way of doing the right thing for safety - so we released the footage," TotalEnergies told the OEUK HSE conference.

West of Shetland

Prax to use Hurricane to make more ‘significant acquisitions’, says investor

21/03/2023