‘Commercial pressures’ drive loss for Babcock’s UK offshore businesses
Helicopter operator Babcock has said “continued commercial pressures” saw its UK offshore oil and gas business swing to a loss last year.
Helicopter operator Babcock has said “continued commercial pressures” saw its UK offshore oil and gas business swing to a loss last year.
A union boss has said “the eye is being taken off the ball” after a pair of fires took place in one day on separate North Sea platforms.
Fledgling energy services company Vulcan Completion Products (VCP) has grown its Aberdeenshire office footprint after winning new work worth about £12 million this year.
A new energy services firm has been created in Aberdeen targeting £1mllion in sales in its first year.
A £5million investment has been announced to improve the power network in Moray.
SBM Offshore has completed financing of $1.14billion (£886m) to pay for the vessel which will serve ExxonMobil’s giant Liza field off Guyana.
Aberdeen-headquartered energy services firm Wood has appointed a new chief executive for its Americas business.
Shell has been dealt with a safety notice after failing to properly ensure workers would be protected during an emergency on a North Sea platform.
A series of accidents and fatal events in the North Sea were catalysts for the formation of the Offshore Industry Liaison Committee (Oilc) 30 years ago.
The leader of RMT’s offshore branch believes it will continue to operate for at least another 30 years but must accept “change is coming”.
The oil and gas industry currently finds itself in a situation which is far from comfortable.
Production has been resumed at the largest-producing oil field in the UK following a shut down.
Greenpeace said last night that protestors would occupy two North Sea oil platforms for “as long as needed” to get their message across.
A worker has been flown to hospital after a fire broke out on a North Sea platform.
An academic has asked whether removing concrete structures within Shell’s Brent platform legs is the right thing to do as such an operation would include risk to life.
Oil and gas boss Bob Donnelly has been appointed the new managing director of RelyOn Nutec.
A charming and dedicated businessman who worked tirelessly to ensure oil and gas businesses were represented on the world’s stage has died aged 80.
In my position as a university lecturer, a parent and as a friend to many younger people, it is clear that a large portion believe that fossil fuels are bad.
Benjamin Franklin said: “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail” and, whilst this is a very frequently-quoted phrase which many of us in business will have heard countless times, it has never been more pertinent writes Bruce Skinner, Director of Alto.
The Eden Project has secured £16.8 million of funding for a geothermal heat and power project, with drilling due to start on the site next summer.
Shell submitted plans in 2017 to leave the giant legs of three of its four Brent platforms and some other infrastructure in the North Sea.
Greenpeace has announced it is carrying out “peaceful protests” at Shell’s Brent field in the UK North Sea.
The Dutch government has protested Shell’s decommissioning plans for the Brent field ahead of a key meeting next week.
While the shift from hydrocarbons to renewables is far from smooth, investment opportunities in the generation, service and utility markets are proliferating as the sector landscape evolves.
Hugh MacLeod doesn’t like talking about himself. He’s modest about his experiences, despite the fact that he has travelled all over the world with his career. For Hugh is happiest with the simple life, and most at home in the Highlands, where he grew up in Daviot – on the outskirts of Inverness.