The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned TotalEnergies over a series of failures in its maintenance processes on the Gryphon Alpha, leading to risks of “fire and explosion”.
Orcadian Energy has signed a new deal with energy data group TGS, which will see it gain access to 3D seismic data across several of its licences in return for a share of future production royalties.
Tom Murdoch has been appointed managing director of the newly rebranded and restructured Brimmond business, some 25 years after it was founded by his late father Alistair.
A project to remove an “eyesore” from the Cromarty Firth has stalled, having been plagued by business disputes and a flurry of health and safety orders.
Shell intends to grow its share of UK oil and gas supplies and invest £100m in skills to support 15,000 energy transition jobs by 2030 as part of its £25 billion investment plans.
Malaysia’s national oil company Petroliam Nasional Bhd. plans to double its capital expenditure to 60 billion ringgit ($14 billion) this year from 2021, as business activities normalize following the lifting of Covid-era restrictions.
Platts will include WTI Midland in its Dated Brent assessment from June 2023 - the first time a non-North Sea grade will be used to help set oil's most important benchmark.
The chairman of Kistos has said it intends to take “full advantage” of the government’s new North Sea investment incentives as it looks to new opportunities in the basin.
An explosion that will keep a major US liquefied natural gas export terminal shut for weeks will cut vital supplies to Europe, which is already struggling with uncertainty around flows of the fuel from Russia.
Following the approval of Shell’s Jackdaw field, analysts are weighing in on whether the move signals an acceleration on reported government plans to “fast track” key North Sea fields.
Lerwick Port Authority (LPA) says the prospect of strike action by labour body Unite is “extremely disappointing” given the fact it has made an unspecified offer to solve the pay and conditions dispute.
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Unite the union has confirmed that workers at the Lerwick Port Authority on Shetland are set to begin an all-out strike action in a dispute over pay, terms and conditions.
The European Union’s ban on seaborne imports of Russian petroleum in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will lead to an 18% drop in the country’s fuel output by the end of next year.