June: There's project updates from Shell, Scottish Power, Perenco, IOG, Repsol Sinopec and Taqa across oil and gas and offshore wind.
Aside from the giant Rosebank and Cambo oilfields - the former expected to be sanctioned this year - there’s a pair of smaller projects in the FID pipeline for Ithaca Energy (LON: ITH).
Ithaca was also asked about the UK political climate, and Equinor’s 80% share in Rosebank.
With further strikes by offshore workers set to begin this week, legal experts have warned of the potential ‘force majeure’ impact on energy sector contracts.
In a wide-ranging interview ahead of the Energy Exports Conference, Sir Ian also pressed for faster pace on the development of carbon capture and storage, including the Acorn project.
Hundreds of North Sea contractors are set to down tools for two days as of this morning, though some negotiations have resumed on the strikes.
June: There's project updates from Shell, Scottish Power, Perenco, IOG, Repsol Sinopec and Taqa across oil and gas and offshore wind.
Aside from the giant Rosebank and Cambo oilfields - the former expected to be sanctioned this year - there’s a pair of smaller projects in the FID pipeline for Ithaca Energy (LON: ITH).
Ithaca was also asked about the UK political climate, and Equinor’s 80% share in Rosebank.
With further strikes by offshore workers set to begin this week, legal experts have warned of the potential ‘force majeure’ impact on energy sector contracts.
In a wide-ranging interview ahead of the Energy Exports Conference, Sir Ian also pressed for faster pace on the development of carbon capture and storage, including the Acorn project.
Hundreds of North Sea contractors are set to down tools for two days as of this morning, though some negotiations have resumed on the strikes.
The organisers of Offshore Europe have revealed details of its growing technical programme on carbon capture and hydrogen at the sustainability-themed event.
Drilling operator Noble has published new footage of one of its giant jack-up rigs leaving Aberdeen Harbour.
At an Energy Voice event today, Gillian Martin struck out at Labour's stance on no new North Sea oil and gas licensing as being "too simplistic".
No discovery at the well, which had pre-drill estimates of 70 million barrels.
Serica Energy (LON: SQZ) chairman Tony Craven Walker has warned that the UK Government’s North Sea taxation is “likely to become unsustainable” with gas prices having dropped.
Ithaca Energy (LON: ITH) is about to begin drilling an exploration well at the K2 prospect in the Central North Sea.
The UK’s Climate Change Committee published its report on the impacts of net zero on the workforce last week, but the energy sector is already acutely aware of the challenges the energy transition poses to its future prosperity.
“Grabbing the headlines is easy, developing a serious plan for more renewable energy is not."
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has backed plans set out by Keir Starmer to end licensing for new oil and gas fields.
Kistos (LSE: KIST) says it is “ready to sanction” the Glendronach and Edradour West projects in the West of Shetland, pending agreement with operator TotalEnergies.
For the Energy Voice team, and many others besides, May has been the month of conferences.
There's been numerous cases over the last decade in UK North Sea exploration where company estimates have been way off the mark.
Starmer's North Sea plan is a threat to the north-east Scotland economy, writes Dick Winchester, but radical action could get us better prepared.
Scottish Energy Minister Gillian Martin will join industry leaders at an event in Aberdeen this week to present her vision as to how the city can retain its status as Europe’s energy capital.
Meanwhile, on the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland programme, David Whitehouse, CEO of OEUK, said the plan risks “importing the energy transition”.
The strategy was branded ‘pie in the sky’ in an immediate backlash from Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce.
Awilco Drilling has cancelled a planned private placement after the loss of a major arbitration case sent its share price plummeting.
New data has highlighted the “standout” firms carrying out exploration in the UK North Sea in recent years.
A towering oil rig, which has been part of the Granite City skyline for three months, has departed Aberdeen for the North Sea.
