A heroic survivor of a horror helicopter crash has told how “training kicked in” to enable him to escape from the submerged chopper in the ocean – then went on to attempt to save another passenger.
Politicians and industry lobbyists are calling for the UK Government to help save hundreds, if not thousands, of threatened North Sea jobs by urgently tackling a “cashflow conundrum”.
The oil and gas industries stand on a cliff edge and could take communities in the north-east with them should they fall, council officials have warned.
Total and Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG) will jointly develop five floating wind farms with total capacity of more than 2 gigawatts (GW) off South Korea.
Norwegian firms Ocean Installer and Vard are entering into a partnership to develop one of the world's most advanced turbine installation vessels for offshore wind.
Specialist rig inspection company Aberdeen Drilling Consultants (ADC) has been helping hundreds of oil workers around the world learn how to maintain drilling operations since the onset of Covid-19.
Aberdeenshire-based ACE Winches, a Balmoral Group company, has successfully completed a shore-pull project for a 2.7km 30” gas sales export pipeline for the Karish gas development field in the south-east Mediterranean Sea, offshore Israel.
Israeli firm Delek Group said today it was considering merging its UK North Sea oil business, Ithaca Energy, with an unspecified international energy company.
The entrepreneur behind plans for a 3,000-strong hydrogen bus fleet in the UK says the alternative fuel can play a strong part in Scotland’s post-Covid recovery.
Aberdeen-based Boskalis Subsea Services (BSS) has announced the successful completion of a multi-million-pound contract for independent oil and gas company Perenco UK, supporting a pipeline project in the UK’s southern North Sea basin.
Aberdeen Harbour Board has awarded global maritime contractor Van Oord two new contracts with a total value of £20 million for rock removal and revetment work at the South Harbour expansion site.
By Dr Alison Monaghan, science lead for UK Geoenergy Observatories, Glasgow
Small-scale geothermal energy projects have operated in the UK for decades, but wider adoption has lagged due to a combination of factors including cost, subsurface risk and the technologies required.
Ed triumphantly returned from his semiaquatic sojourn in Somerset to join Mark and Allister for another ear-captivating edition of Energy Voice Out Loud, in association with the EIC.
Oil edged lower -- but was still headed for a fourth weekly gain -- after Hurricane Laura swept through Louisiana and Texas without appearing to inflict major damage on the region’s energy infrastructure.
Hunting laid off about 20 employees in the north-east during the first half of 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic and oil price drop caused demand to falter.
A nuclear power station which had been forced to reduce output in the last few years because of cracks in its core will begin the decommissioning process by 2022.