Multiple uncertainties depressing shares
The news cycle in recent weeks has been intense, with the eyes of the world fixated on the Japan crisis.
The news cycle in recent weeks has been intense, with the eyes of the world fixated on the Japan crisis.
Among the most common medical complaints brought to offshore medics are chapped lips and sore facial skin.
At the time of writing it's all the sevens: seven E&A wells spudded to date in 2011, seven wells completed and seven wells currently operating or drilling.
Melrose Resources has signed concession agreements for two offshore exploration blocks with the Romanian National Agency of Mineral Resources.
A company hoping to develop a North Sea oil business has successfully floated on London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM).
MORE than 100 people attended a networking lunch at the Marcliffe Hotel, in Aberdeen, as part of the Oil and Gas Outlook North Sea event.
THE Aberdeen, Highlands and Islands Branch of the Energy Institute held its annual dinner at the Marcliffe Hotel, in Aberdeen.
GeoGlobal Resources has awarded a drilling services contract to Aberdeen company Exceed, covering the Myra and Sara offshore licences offshore Israel.
Aker Solutions has delivered the 100th subsea tree to the world's largest subsea field development, Statoil's Troll field, located some 65km west of Kollsnes, Norway.
There are over 130billion barrels oil equivalent (boe) in already discovered oil, gas and condensate reserves in offshore Arctic and sub-Arctic regions, according to a new study.
The Tyrihans subsea project in the Norwegian Sea has been formally inaugurated, a staggering 20 months after commercial production started from Tyrihans South, a gas-capped oil field, and Tyrihans North, a gas and condensate field with a thin oil zone.
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation & Enforcement (BOEMRE) is investigating how a very large oil spill would impact the ocean environment offshore Alaska's north-west coast, primarily in the Chukchi Sea.
Engineering consultancy Optimus has saved Scottish oil & gas independent Melrose Resources more than $20million in Bulgaria, thanks to innovative engineering that it believes could be applied in the North Sea.
Hansa Hydrocarbons wants to farm-down its risk in UK blocks 48/16a (licence P1695) and 48/16b (licence P898), by bringing in partners prior to a crucial well being drilled later this year.
Energy engineering consultancy Prospect expects business to pick up this year after a challenging 2010, with up to 20 new jobs in the pipeline.
The size of European unconventional commercial gas reserves rivals that of North America, according to a major new study by IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates (IHS CERA).
I am a frequent visitor to the European Commission's Energy Directorate in Brussels, and have a high regard for most of the EC oil & gas officials I work with.
One of the roles of government is to make decisions that are in the widest interests of the country, rather than those which are simply popular with the electorate.
Stop me if I go on about it, for I am in danger of becoming a Brazil bore. After having just revisited - for the first time in a decade - I am convinced that it is probably the most exciting, happening country on earth.
Statistics are great. You can use them to create any story you like. My current favourite is the one that came out in a study from some outfit I'd never heard of called Verso Economics.
There I was, sitting at my study desk, half listening to the UK's current and hopefully short-lived chancellor, George Osborne, droning on through his 2011 Budget speech.
A Robert Gordon schooling with a view to university, followed by a high-flying career of some sort? Ideal? You might think so.
The global wind market is expected to go on growing this year with more than 40GW (gigawatts) of new wind power capacity to be added, according to a five-year industry forecast by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).
Multi-faceted Scottish energy services group Senergy is regarded as being a lead player in the application of advanced drilling techniques in UK waters and elsewhere.
Total has achieved the world's first subsea gas/liquid separation.