EU clears GE Oil & Gas, Baker Hughes merger
The European Commission has cleared the planned merger between Baker Hughes and GE Oil and Gas.
The European Commission has cleared the planned merger between Baker Hughes and GE Oil and Gas.
An outright ban on fracking in Ireland has moved a step closer.
Marine renewables firm Atlantis Resources posted losses of £7.3million in 2016, the year its flagship MeyGen project powered up off the north coast of Scotland.
Russians warships in the Mediterranean Sea have fired four cruise missiles at the Islamic State group’s positions in Syria, the defence ministry in Moscow said.
London’s premier index rebounded to within a whisker of a new mid-session record after choppy trading for the pound handed a boost to blue-chip stocks.
An oil and gas industry body today unveiled a blueprint aimed at providing a £300billion boost for the UK economy.
Military chiefs secretly planned to re-use defunct oil platforms off the Caithness coast as training facilities.
North Sea operator EnQuest has asked for permission to put a new water injection pipeline in the Greater Kittiwake Area (GKA).
The number of energy industry vacancies advertised in the UK has soared in the past year as the sector shows signs of recovery, a new report said.
As expected following comments ahead of the meeting on behalf of Saudi Arabia and Russia, OPEC members have agreed to prolong the existing production curtailment (a cut of 1.8m bbl/d including Russia’s cuts) to the first quarter of 2018. OPEC has a self-imposed goal of bringing stocks down from a record high of 3bn bbls to the five-year average of 2.7bn bbls.
Workers at an oil refinery are to be asked if they want to vote for strikes in a dispute over pensions.
The UK oil and sector will reflect on two difficult years while also looking ahead to a brighter future at a conference in Aberdeen next week.
Houston’s Kinder Morgan said Tuesday it successfully completed its initial public offering in Canada to raise $1.3 billion in support of its massive Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
Optimism is returning to North Sea exploration, though estimates for this year’s drilling targets could be unrealistic, an oil sector analyst has said.
Aker Solutions' takeover of a rival oil services firm will lead to about 70 job losses in Norway, a media report said.
Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) said yesterday that investments during 2016-17 helped create or retain 1,688 full-time equivalent jobs.
Pupils at nurseries and primary schools in Aberdeen are taking part in a new initiative which will use the oil and gas industry to teach safety and science lessons.
Scottish manufacturer Pryme Group said yesterday its new chief executive was leading an “aggressive” growth strategy aimed at transforming it into a major player across the oil and gas, defence and aerospace sectors.
Delek Group boss Asaf Bartfeld said yesterday the UK oil and gas newcomer aimed to continue beefing up its international presence.
A Scottish conservationist has said changing European laws to allow more oil rigs to be left at sea could present a “colossal opportunity” for the North Sea.
Chartered accountant and business advisor Anderson Anderson and Brown (AAB), of Aberdeen, has topped a list of Scottish “dealmakers” for a 12th consecutive year.
A North Sea operator will soon start plugging and abandoning (P&A) wells on the Beatrice oil field as it prepares a wider decommissioning programme.
An Aberdeen man today spoke about using the oil downturn to fulfil a lifetime ambition of cycling across Europe to Romania.
More than 120,000 tonnes of steelwork are currently in fabrication across the UK, Europe and Asia for the Beatrice offshore wind farm, its developer SSE has said.
Aberdeen firm Swire Oilfield Services has appointed a new chief executive to replace John Bruce Rae-Smith, who is stepping down due to “personal reasons”.