S&P strikes deal to buy IHS Markit for $39bn
S&P Global Inc. has agreed to buy IHS Markit Ltd. for about $39 billion in stock, a deal that accelerates the wave of consolidation among the finance industry’s biggest data providers.
S&P Global Inc. has agreed to buy IHS Markit Ltd. for about $39 billion in stock, a deal that accelerates the wave of consolidation among the finance industry’s biggest data providers.
Political leaders are making strides in climate change this month with election commitments from President-elect Biden in the US, UK Prime Minister Johnson launching a 10-point plan for a Green Industrial Revolution and the European Union unveiling plans to increase offshore windfarm capacity 25-fold as part of the Green Deal, but more action is required to get in striking distance of the Paris Agreement, according to DNV GL.
Scottish oil and gas drilling giant KCA Deutag is changing hands as part of a financial restructuring to slash debt.
A Dundee engineering firm said its major machinery investments demonstrate its confidence and resilience in a tough marketplace.
Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) said today that measures put in place to tackle Covid-19 had led to a 15% increase to the cost estimate for its Perseverance well.
Brent oil traded slightly lower at around $48 a barrel -- but was on track for a fourth weekly gain -- amid signs of division among OPEC+ members just days before a key policy meeting on whether to extend production curbs.
Cairn announced today that Nicoletta Giadrossi will be appointed chairwoman of the Scottish oil company from January 1 2021.
BP said it will invest more money in Middle Eastern oil and natural-gas fields even as it transitions to renewable energy and tries to lower emissions.
Six American oil executives held for three years in Venezuela have been found guilty of corruption charges by a judge and immediately sentenced to prison.
Aberdeenshire based energy industry equipment rental firm Hiretech Limited has received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade.
The boss of Scottish Engineering (SE) has said the industry needs a preservation plan despite “tentative” signs of improvement.
First oil from a North Sea field has been hailed as an encouraging sign that the basin remains attractive.
OGTC’s accelerator programme, TechX, celebrates the graduation of its third cohort of technology start-up Pioneers, the first to be done via a virtual programme.
Ithaca Energy hasn’t abandoned hope of sanctioning phase two of its enhanced oil recovery (EOR) programme on the Captain field before year end.
A £200 million North Sea project that environmental activists repeatedly tried to thwart has delivered first oil.
Equinor and SSE have today announced financial close on the first two phases of the Dogger Bank wind farm project.
London-listed Jersey Oil and Gas has agreed to buy the remaining 12% of the licence containing the Verbier discovery in the outer Moray Firth.
Frustrated UAE representatives are sending subtle but strong signals that they may be the first in the OPEC+ oil producers group to break free and go it alone.
All-Energy, the UK’s largest annual renewable and low carbon energy exhibition and conference, will make its return on August 18 and 19 next year, organiser Reed Exhibitions said yesterday.
Former Scotland international cricketer Jan Stander is the new managing director at north-east offshore inspection firm Aisus.
A pair of oil and gas fields controlled by Japanese companies offshore Vietnam could become a potential flash point in the disputed waters of the South China Sea as Beijing continually seeks to aggressively assert its claims.
Engineering service group Babcock International said today that market conditions for its oil and gas aviation business were “extremely tough” in the six months to September 30.
Aberdeen Harbour has “hidden” its decommissioning credentials for too long and needs to raise its profile in the sector to secure a bigger share of the market, one of its bosses said yesterday.
A third wind farm in a small area of north-west Skye has been given the nod by Highland councillors, despite planners’ admission of a “significant adverse impact” on the setting.
Rishi Sunak has been urged to make good on a pledge to invest in Aberdeen to help the oil and gas industry go green in today’s spending review, amid claims “failure” to do so cannot go on any longer.