Flights resumed to Total’s Culzean field after suspected coronavirus patient taken to shore
Flights have been resumed to one of the UK’s largest gas fields after a worker suspected to have coronavirus was taken to shore.
Flights have been resumed to one of the UK’s largest gas fields after a worker suspected to have coronavirus was taken to shore.
Energy giant BP has joined a list of operators working to reduce offshore crew numbers on its North Sea assets in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Aberdeen-based well integrity specialist Unity has won a seven-figure deal with operator Spirit Energy.
More than 200 oilfield services firms (OFS) across the UK and Norway are “set to become insolvent” due to the coronavirus outbreak, according to Rystad Energy.
A UK judge suspended the country’s biggest ongoing corruption trial in London for two weeks, the first such case to have been put on hold because of the coronavirus as an attorneys association asked for all jury trials to be halted.
Several North Sea operators are reducing offshore crews on their UK platforms in a bid to prevent the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.
Flights have been temporarily suspended to one of the UK’s largest offshore gas fields after a suspected coronavirus case at an adjacent drilling rig.
Oceaneering has moved more than 300 workers in Aberdeen into new offices in a bid to consolidate its presence in the city.
Oil’s spectacular collapse deepened as widening global efforts to fight the spread of the coronavirus looked set to trigger the most severe contraction in annual demand in history.
A worker on a North Sea platform has been quarantined offshore after being suspected of contracting coronavirus.
Respsol Sinopec Resources UK (RSRUK) has confirmed its intent to press ahead with the Tain development in the Outer Moray Firth.
A leading analyst has described it as “disappointing” that the Chancellor that put a vital net zero technology lower down his list of priorities than repairing potholes.
Work is still ongoing to restore full power to BP’s ETAP platform in the North Sea, three weeks after a small fire caused the installation to be down-manned.
An Aberdeenshire oil worker under quarantine in China has said he “doesn’t know” when he will be able to return to the UK.
Forecasts for the UK's North Sea tax receipts have been halved for the next financial year, but the recent oil price plummet could have an even more drastic impact.
Oil and Gas UK (OGUK) has decided to chop up one of its flagship industry reports and cancelled key events in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
A lack of any change – even any mention – of oil and gas is a “welcome move” from the new Chancellor’s budget, according to a leading analyst.
A Shell worker has tested positive for coronavirus in Aberdeen as the number of cases across north-east Scotland has increased to six.
The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has confirmed there will be no new offshore licensing round in 2020 after implementing a “temporary pause”.
The oil price freefall means projections for the UK’s North Sea revenues are already out of date before the Budget is even published, according to a leading analyst.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched an inquiry after a crane collapsed on a second Valaris oil rig within a month of each other.
Workers have voted “emphatically” in favour of strike action at the Sullom Voe terminal in Shetland.
I can imagine the expletives uttered the length and breadth of the North West Europe Continental Shelf as folk across the offshore oil & gas industry woke up this morning … from operators right down the food chain to the smallest service companies.
As cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) increase around the world, industry continues to experience the effects. In particular, Chinese manufacturers in some areas have stopped operations due to factory shutdowns which in turn is starting to affect supply chains. As lead times catch up with supply constraints we expect this to become problematic in the weeks to come.
A House of Lords investigation into upcoming IR35 reforms has been told that additional guidance is needed on employment definitions in the UK.