North Sea

Mass survey to ‘put a human face’ on Aberdeen’s oil downturn

24/08/2019

A new study has been launched to “put a human face” on the north-east’s oil and gas downturn- and recommend how to better share the wealth in the region. Read More

Maersk Drilling ‘delivering’ on 2019 plan despite challenging times, says CEO

Conoco's North Sea sale to Chrysaor includes the Jasmine field.

ConocoPhillips’ North Sea exit sparks pensions row

Pictured is Dr Ken performing his show.
Sneak-peak at new Tech-Fest show Entertaining Circus Science Show, with demonstrations in chemistry of fire eating, circus whip sound barrier and physics of juggling while unicycling.
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Roll up for fun learning as TechFest science showcase returns

Sixth annual event to celebrate Scandinavian links

Energy firms going global at Northern Star awards

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Mass survey to ‘put a human face’ on Aberdeen’s oil downturn

24/08/2019

Maersk Drilling ‘delivering’ on 2019 plan despite challenging times, says CEO

24/08/2019

ConocoPhillips’ North Sea exit sparks pensions row

23/08/2019

From left, Andy Black, head of UK operations and Murdo Macleod, UK managing director, at WellGear's new facility in Drumoak.
Pic by Chris Sumner.

Growth drive sees Dutch firm WellGear open new UK base

23/08/2019

Premier Oil chief executive Tony Durrant

Premier Oil pressing on with projects during M&A ‘summer lull’

23/08/2019

Updated: FMS nets eight-figure North Sea deal with BP

23/08/2019

Energy Voice monthly supplement, August 2019: Taking hold of technology

06/08/2019

Energy Voice’s latest monthly supplement has been published with The Press & Journal. The theme of the August 2019 edition is Taking Hold of Technology. It features interviews with some of the main influencers and innovators in Aberdeen’s oil and gas tech sphere. Subscribers can click here to read a digital version of the supplement. Read More

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An anti Brexit campaigner shows her support for Europe waving a European Union flag outside Parliament in London, Monday, March 25, 2019. British Prime Minister Theresa May is under intense pressure Monday to win support for her Brexit deal to split from Europe. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

The impact of Brexit on risk allocation in the energy and waste sectors

20/08/2019

Waste sector businesses are increasingly looking to “Brexit clauses” as a pragmatic solution to the uncertainty created by the UK's looming withdrawal from the EU. Read More

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The Maersk Resilient drilling rig won a new contract with IOG in the first half of the year.

North Sea

Maersk Drilling ‘on track’ despite drop in earnings

23/08/2019

by Allister Thomas

Maersk Drilling has said it is “on track” to deliver its 2019 goals despite a £4m pre-tax loss for the first half of the year.

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has announced a two-year programme of improvements for the city and surrounding area.

Renewables/Energy Transition

Aberdeen to benefit from multi-million pound electricity network boost

23/08/2019 by Shona Gossip

A £10million investment project to make Aberdeen’s electricity network more resilient has been announced.

A boat sails past the Burnaby Refinery, operated by Parkland Fuel Corp., in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018.

Americas

The $30bn exodus: Foreign oil firms bail on Canada

23/08/2019 by Bloomberg

Capital keeps marching out of Canada’s oil industry, with Kinder Morgan Inc.’s sale of its remaining holdings in the country on Wednesday adding to more than $30 billion of foreign-company divestitures in the past three years.

Oil & Gas

Oil on course for back-to-back weekly gains

23/08/2019 by Bloomberg

Oil headed for its first back-to-back weekly gain since June on signs the U.S. and China could be edging closer to a trade deal and as a growing list of central banks start easing policy to shore up growth.

Oil & Gas

Tremor halts fracking at UK’s only active site

22/08/2019 by Reporter

Fracking has been stopped at the UK's only shale gas exploration site after a tremor, according to an energy firm.

North Sea

Record production helps Premier Oil cut debt further, Zama stake up for sale

22/08/2019

by Mark Lammey

Record production levels helped Premier Oil put another dent in its debt pile in the first half of 2019.

Shell has finished acquiring new seismic data on the Pensacola prospect. Pictured is the Polar Empress vessel from Shearwater GeoServices.

North Sea

Shell wraps up seismic shoot on southern North Sea prospect

22/08/2019

by Mark Lammey

Shell has wrapped up seismic survey work on a newly-acquired southern North Sea prospect.

Americas

TechnipFMC gets nod for Shell’s PowerNap project

22/08/2019 by Reporter

Shell has selected TechnipFMC to provide subsea equipment for its PowerNap project in the US Gulf of Mexico.

Australasia

Shell dives into Australian power market with $418m ERM bid

22/08/2019 by Bloomberg

Royal Dutch Shell Plc has taken the plunge into Australia’s energy market with a $418 million deal to buy ERM Power Ltd., the nation’s second-largest electricity retailer to commercial and industrial customers, as it drives toward a goal to become the world’s top power producer by 2030.

North Sea

Drilling starts on appraisal well for i3 Energy

22/08/2019

by Mark Lammey

North Sea oil firm i3 Energy said today that the Borgland Dolphin semi-submersible drilling rig has started drilling a well on the Liberator field in the outer Moray Firth.

Europe

Dutch gas shutdown puts at risk future of Europe’s biggest hub

22/08/2019 by Bloomberg

Even the seller of natural gas from Europe’s largest field was taken aback by the Dutch government’s decision last year to close it forever.

Renewables/Energy Transition

Cutbacks and slow progress undermining net zero goals, MPs say

22/08/2019 by Reporter

Cutbacks and slow progress on policies to tackle climate change must be urgently reversed if the UK is to meet its new legally-binding net zero target, MPs have said.

Dounreay as breakers from the Pentland Firth break on the shore.

Nuclear

Dounreay lightning strike inquiry launched

22/08/2019 by Callum Ross

An investigation has been launched after a lightning strike knocked out power at the Dounreay nuclear plant and its back-up supplies also failed.

North Sea

Scotland in £12.6bn ‘black hole’ despite North Sea tax receipts

22/08/2019

by Allister Thomas

Scotland had a £12.6bn deficit last year despite more than £1.4billion in North Sea receipts, according to new tax and spending figures.

North Sea

Updated: HSE warns Total after workers exposed to dangerous gas

22/08/2019

by Mark Lammey

The UK's health and safety watchdog has warned Total after workers on one of its North Sea platforms were exposed to a dangerous gas.

Phill Maurer, managing director for Bilfinger UK

Oil & Gas

Bilfinger to double Scottish workforce after Ineos contract wins

22/08/2019

by Mark Lammey

Energy service firm Bilfinger UK has said it will double its Scottish workforce after winning two multimillion-pound contracts with Ineos.

Operators Apache BP, Ithaca and Chevron, along with OGUK and the OGA, developed the tool. Pictured is Apache's Beryl Alpha platform.

North Sea

New tool to add ‘millions’ of barrels to North Sea production

22/08/2019

by Allister Thomas

A new tool has been launched which will help companies produce millions of extra barrels of oil through their North Sea operations.

Renewables/Energy Transition

Argyll wind farm plan fails to gain backing

22/08/2019 by Rita Campbell

Plans for a 17-turbine wind farm in Argyll failed to gain the support of local councillors yesterday who feared it would have a detrimental impact on peat resources in the area.

In this Aug. 16, 2019, photo, New York University student researchers sit on a rock overlooking the Helheim glacier in Greenland.

Other News

Greenland row: Potential oil reserves could boost island’s fortunes

22/08/2019 by Energy Reporter

Donald Trump's decision to cancel a visit to Denmark next month after the prime minister described his plan to buy Greenland as "absurd" has taken the Danish royal palace by surprise, a spokeswoman said.

Other News

Aberdeen engineering firm GDi joins EquIP growth programme

22/08/2019 by Keith Findlay

Law firm CMS said Aberdeen-based engineering and design business GDi had become the first Scottish company to join its EquIP programme.

Levenmouth demonstration turbine.
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Renewables/Energy Transition

Silicon Valley tech firm teams up with RGU to boost wind turbine output

22/08/2019 by Keith Findlay

A cutting-edge technology firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, has teamed up with a Scottish university for a project aimed at boosting the output from wind farms.

Neil Gordon, chief executive of Subsea UK at Subsea Expo 2019

North Sea

‘New perspectives’ as Subsea Expo 2020 looks beyond oil and gas

22/08/2019

by Allister Thomas

Next year’s Subsea Expo will be focussed on new opportunities across the underwater industry, “not just oil and gas and renewables”.

North Sea

Costain’s Aberdeen team busy with North Sea studies, but group profits plunge

21/08/2019

by Mark Lammey

Demand for studies from North Sea operators was not enough to stop profits plunging at UK infrastructure firm Costain in the first half.

Americas

Aberdeen man to spearhead simulator sales in US for 3T Energy

21/08/2019

by Mark Lammey

An Aberdeen-born businessman has been tasked with ramping up drilling simulator sales in the US for training and technology firm 3T Energy Group.

North Sea

Petrofac handed three-year Forties deal by Ineos

21/08/2019

by Mark Lammey

Petrochemicals giant Ineos has handed oilfield service firm Petrofac a three-year deal to provide operations and maintenance crew for its Forties pipeline business.

Oil & Gas

Profits rise as Worley charts path through ‘most transformative period’

21/08/2019

by Mark Lammey

Bosses at Worley said today that increased procurement income from its UK North Sea business helped lift revenues at the Australia-headquartered energy services firm.

North Sea

Subsea pipeline due to be installed at Ithaca’s Cook field

21/08/2019

by Allister Thomas

A pipeline is expected to be installed next month as part of plans to revitalise Ithaca’s Cook field in the North Sea.

Aker will provide four steel tube umbilicals spanning more than 100 kilometers in total.

Middle East

Aker Solutions bags £65m Adnoc deal

21/08/2019

by Mark Lammey

Aker Solutions has won a £65 million order from Adnoc to deliver subsea umbilicals for the Dalma gas development project located offshore UAE in the Persian Gulf.

Oil & Gas

Wood CEO insists company getting a grip on debts

21/08/2019 by Keith Findlay

Wood chief executive Robin Watson insisted yesterday the Aberdeen-based energy service giant was getting its debt under control.

Gunther Newcombe, operations director at the Oil and Gas Authority.

North Sea

OGA director Gunther Newcombe to retire

21/08/2019

by Mark Lammey

An oil and gas industry veteran will retire upon leaving the sector’s regulator next year.

BorWin3 will convert and transmit energy to power more than a million German households.

Renewables/Energy Transition

Petrofac completes offshore wind project in German North Sea

21/08/2019

by Allister Thomas

Petrofac has hailed the start of power generation from a major offshore wind project in Germany.

Gold Awards

Three running for award celebrating women in energy industry

21/08/2019 by Keith Findlay

Three people are in the running for the prestigious Dr Mildred Dresselhaus Award, which celebrates the role of women in the energy industry.

Tim Dodson (right), Equinor’s executive vice president for Exploration, and Daniel González, YPF’s CEO. (Photo: Ole Jørgen Bratland / Equinor ASA)

Americas

Equinor expands YPF pact for offshore exploration in Argentina

21/08/2019

by Mark Lammey

Equinor and YPF have signed an agreement to jointly explore the CAN 100 offshore block, located in the North Argentinian Basin.

Other News

Scotland’s public finances to be outlined in GERS report

21/08/2019 by Reporter

Official statistics outlining Scotland's public finances will be published on Wednesday.

Other News

GE highly exposed to care insurance market, Fitch says

21/08/2019 by Bloomberg

General Electric Co. has “very high” exposure to the long-term care insurance market and is worse than average when it comes to the adequacy of reserves tied to those policies, according to Fitch Ratings.

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