CO2 storage reservoir gas leak tested
An experiment to test what would happen if carbon dioxide (CO2) leaked from underground storage reservoirs beneath the seabed has been hailed a success.
An experiment to test what would happen if carbon dioxide (CO2) leaked from underground storage reservoirs beneath the seabed has been hailed a success.
Oil giant Chevron said yesterday its multibillion-pound North Sea Rosebank development was expected to lead to the creation of 300 jobs out of its Aberdeen base.
A key engineering design contract for Chevron's multibillion pound Rosebank oilfield development project west of Shetland will be announced in Aberdeen today by UK Energy Minister Charles Hendry.
Two Aberdeen-based oil services companies said today they have merged.
Aberdeen-based Dana Petroleum had pre-tax profits of ÂŁ467million in 2011 -- the first full year in which it was owned by Korean national oil firm KNOC.
Improved charter rates and increased demand drove a 3% rise in turnover at Vroon Offshore Services in 2011, the Aberdeen firm said.
GE Oil and Gas stressed its commitment to its Montrose base as the company marked 30 years of operating in the Angus town.
Stork Technical Services said yesterday it had opened an in-house fabric maintenance (FM) training centre at Dyce, Aberdeen, after a ÂŁ100,000 investment.
The Treasury needs to do more to help the oil and gas industry unlock the ÂŁ1trillion of oil estimated to be recoverable from the UK North Sea, according to a new report.
North-east oil and gas telecommunications specialist Nessco Group was sold yesterday in a deal worth up to ÂŁ31.1million.
Global Energy Group yesterday announced its latest acquisition, plus plans to create another 100 jobs.
International energy service group Hunting said yesterday that the trading outlook for the remainder of 2012 remained encouraging.
Global oil and gas production-facility support business Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) said yesterday it wanted to create 150 jobs in Aberdeen after adding a new service.
Having joined the oil and gas industry after more than 25 years in the Army, Matthew Wardner has seen several similarities between his two careers.
Subsea installation firm Bibby Offshore is moving to new headquarters in the north-east in response to its growing workforce.
Aberdeen-based industrial service provider BIS Salamis has launched a new company-wide health and safety initiative.
North Sea Energy (NSE) has failed to have a UK court recognise its "right of non-consent" in the drilling of a well in the Jacky field, about 12 miles from the Moray Firth coastline.
Chief Treasury Secretary Danny Alexander will claim today that oil and gas taxes could be increased in an independent Scotland.
North Star Shipping, a division of Aberdeen-based Craig Group, said yesterday it had collected an international award from one of the world's leading health and safety bodies for the 11th year in a row.
Tails are high at AGR; two-and-a-half years into mastering and running almost the entire current Falkland Islands drilling campaign, plus overseeing one of the longest supply chains in the history of offshore oil and gas, the company is on the home straight, for now at least.
A year into the top role at Cairn Energy, Simon Thomson is running a different company to the one he took over in July 2011.
Utterly crucial to the success of the current Falklands campaign is the supply chain. At more than 8,000 miles from Aberdeen to Port Stanley it presents a huge challenge, yet it is one that has been successfully overcome.
Nine mobile units are currently active on E&A drilling in the UKCS, down two since last reported, with the total number of spuds in 2012 to date rising marginally to 21 (11 exploration and 10 appraisal wells) plus five sidetracks initiated for geological and mechanical reasons.
A decade ago and the main news flow came from West Africa, notably Angola and Nigeria. Mauritania was bubbling away albeit that story has since rather fizzled out and the hugely-successful Kosmos and Tullow campaigns offshore Ghana were not yet on the radar.
Environmental pressure group Greenpeace has launched a worldwide campaign to have the Arctic declared a sanctuary.