FTSE 100 hits record close again as index breaks 7,500 mark
The FTSE 100 Index has closed above 7,500 for the first time as higher-than-forecast inflation data and confidence over Britain’s prospects under a Tory government drove stocks higher.
The FTSE 100 Index has closed above 7,500 for the first time as higher-than-forecast inflation data and confidence over Britain’s prospects under a Tory government drove stocks higher.
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority has given Aker BP permission to use a Maersk rig to plug North Sea wells.
An Aberdeen-based oil sector procurement company has gone into administration less than two years after its launch.
Maersk Oil’s boss said yesterday that key infrastructure for the North Sea Culzean field would soon be ready to set sail from the Netherlands.
Norwegian authorities have ordered Total to step up safety standards on the energy giant’s Martin Linge development.
Italian energy company Eni has kicked off gas production from its Jangkrik fields offshore Indonesia.
Maersk Oil has awarded a contract for hook-up work on the North Sea Culzean project to one of its sister companies.
Energy giant Centrica will safeguard 70 offshore jobs by breathing new life into a North Sea oilfield with a £35million investment.
An oil and gas engineer and his partner have broken the cycle by setting up an active holiday retreat in France.
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French utility company Engie has entered the UK domestic energy market, apparently shrugging off concerns about a pledged government clampdown on prices.
A former London oil and gas trader who built up a fortune in the Russian energy business has been ordered to pay his estranged wife £453 million by a divorce court judge.
Europe’s air safety regulator has issued an airworthiness directive for AW139 helicopters.
The sale of Engie’s oil and gas exploration and production unit to a business led by former Centrica boss Sam Laidlaw is imminent, a news report said.
One person has been seriously hurt and two more injured after a helicopter from Shetland crashed off the Norwegian coast.
Alba Mineral Resources has bought 5% of the Brockham oil field in England from operator Angus Energy.
Losses at offshore accommodation provider Prosafe widened in the first quarter as the market remained challenging.
ExxonMobil has agreed to buy a petrochemicals plant in Singapore from Jurong Aromatics Corporation.
Investigators have flagged up a number of regulatory breaches that caused a fire to break out on a rig in the Norwegian Sea last year.
Global law firm Clyde & Co has opened its first office in Mexico following a merger with a firm in Latin America.
A strong showing from Moller-Maersk’s oil division helped the Danish conglomerate increase its profits for the first quarter of 2017.
BP has started production from its West Nile Delta development in Egypt eight months early and under budget.
The UK’s onshore oil and gas trade body has called for the Scottish Government to realise fracking’s potential and ditch its moratorium on the technology.
Scotland’s geographical share of North Sea oil revenues was negative for the first calendar year on record in 2016, Scottish Government figures show.