Workers vote to strike over Sullom Voe terminal rooms row
Workers building an £800million gas terminal in Shetland have voted to take strike action in a dispute over accommodation and pay.
Workers building an £800million gas terminal in Shetland have voted to take strike action in a dispute over accommodation and pay.
Oil and Gas UK has added a new entry to its annual offshore safety awards portfolio as health experts raise alarm over workforce’s growing waistlines.
Australian exploration company Baraka Energy & Resources Ltd has launched disputes over work programmes with Statoil Australia Theta and Petrofrontier.
Canadian oil group Bankers Petroleum has been boosted by its Albanian operations after seeing a 21% rise in output.
Shell is leading a new deepwater exploration project off New Zealand’s south-east coast.
Indian oil ministry has cleared 56 oil and gas exploration blocks for auction in a bid to encourage foreign investment and reduce the country’s dependency on hydrocarbons’ imports.
Irish exploration company Petroceltic today predicted production of up to 22 million barrels a day in 2014.
A specialist oil and gas focus group in the Western Isles has wound down, donating its remaining funds to the Lews Castle College.
The Enoch field could remain shut until the middle of this year as the ongoing technical problems which have left it closed for two years continue.
Production is under way from the Juliet North Sea gas field, operator GDF Suez has confirmed.
Engineering group Amec has landed a £255million deal to support a group of major projects for Kuwait's national oil company.
Residents across the north-east are being offered the chance to view plans to build a world-leading green energy scheme in the region.
The UK's Foreign & Commonwealth Office is planning a new consulate general compound, with office, residential accommodation and buildings services, in Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.
Chinese interests have gobbled up all but a scrap of Swedish design and engineering specialist, Bassoe Technology of Gothenburg.
Aberdeen-headquartered engineering consultancy Optimus has strengthened its structural team with the addition of in-house architectural expertise.
Aberdeen-based oil and gas services company Tendeka has won a three-year contract to supply inflow control devices in the Middle East.
Fugro and Azeri state oil company Socar are forming a joint venture to deliver bathymetric, geophysical and geotechnical surveys, the provision of autonomous underwater vehicles and remotely operated vehicles, diving services and general positioning support on- and offshore.
A raft of new measures are being rolled out in a bid to improve the competence of people involved in well operations. Dave Price, chief executive of the International Well Control Forum, spoke to Jeremy Cresswell.
Rig designer and builder Lamprell currently has seven units currently being built at its yard in Sharjah, UAE.
This year in Boardroom we plan to feature four women who have smashed their way through the glass ceiling and risen to very senior roles in the oil and gas industry.
Keppel FELS has decided to press ahead with construction of the first Can Do class drillship on spec.
NYK Offshore Tankers has signed a time-charter contract with Total for a floating, storage, and offloading unit (FSO) to be installed in Norwegian waters. The charter will run for eight years with options for four further years.
There is little to report in the way of new activity at the start of 2014, in part due to the malaise (often attributed to a shortage of rigs) evident in the UK sector last year.
Two initiatives are under way that could see the north-east of Scotland playing a prominent role in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for oil and gas and other energy-related survey work, both on- and offshore.
Harkand has signed up Vard Holdings to design and build a dive support and construction vessel in an all-Norwegian deal worth more than £100million (NOK 1billion).