Fuel-cell technology being developed in Scandinavian could make a major difference to the levels of carbon dioxide pumped out by lorries. Fitted aboard a lorry, such a unit would kick in during engine idling periods, which are commonplace with commercial vehicles.
GROWING Aberdeen-based service company Brinker is focused on taking an innovative and scientific approach to reducing downtime and improving safety when tackling asset and well integrity leaks.
Eleven E&A wells are currently active on the UKCS utilising 10 mobile rigs and one platform, with seven new spuds reported over the last month, bringing this year's tally to 31 wells and 20 sidetracks.
Bob Ruddiman, head of energy at law firm McGrigors LLP, who has been closely involved in the Riding the Rapids project, told Energy: "Over the years, we have coped with volatility of the oil price, but never before has it been linked so strongly to a credit crunch and squeeze on capital markets. It's suggested in the survey that oil&gas sector companies have not learned the lessons of past recessions, but I think, this time, it could be different and new business models will emerge."
SBM Offshore has been contracted by Noble Energy for the provision, lease and operation of a production ship (FPSO) for the Aseng field on block I offshore Equatorial Guinea in waters about 1,000m (3,300ft) in depth.
THE NPD (Norwegian Petroleum Directorate) has given the green light to StatoilHydro and DNO for drilling offshore Norway with three different drilling rigs.
NORWEGIAN company Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has been awarded a contract by Total E&P Norge to provide 3D electromagnetic (EM) data acquisition and processing over the Frigg field, which is at an advanced stage of decommissioning.
THE curtain came down on the 2009 Aberdeen International Youth Festival with the popular International Variety Gala sponsored by Shell UK and BP Exploration.
FMC Technologies has been awarded an important world-first contract to provide Petrobras with a subsea system capable of processing heavy crude in the Campos Basin Marlim field offshore Brazil.
Wood Group already has substantial carbon-related experience, much of it gained in the US supporting operators in their quest to boost output from depleted hydrocarbons reservoirs.
Not many months ago, Aberdeen's largest indigenous energy services player, the Wood Group, launched a subsidiary dedicated to renewable energy and upped the commitment to growing its already substantial involvement to carbon capture, including examining and seeking to cut the size of its own carbon footprint.
LIKE many, Straughen is disappointed that the Miller carbon-capture project - which would also have yielded a further 30-40million barrels of oil - was cancelled.
ON SEPTEMBER 2, a memorial service to celebrate the life of Mary Dwyer, former public-affairs manager of Total E&P UK, was held in the Oil Chapel, St Nicholas Kirk, Aberdeen, and presided over by North Sea chaplain the Reverend Andrew J. Jolly.
ANALYSIS of 19 target countries and 26 key onshore and offshore market sectors - ranging from land drilling equipment to offshore operations - has revealed that overall expenditure levels are expected to total $2trillion over 2009-13.
TWO new records have been set in north-west European waters in recent weeks, one by StatoilHydro with a live pipeline hot tap, while an alliance comprising Island Offshore, FMC Technologies and Aker Well Service has set a new water-depth world record for subsea riserless wireline intervention from a ship.
LUX Innovate is a small Edinburgh-based company that specialises in the development of detection technologies based on light, and it is now applying techniques routinely used in biosciences to develop an oil-in-water and water-in-oil monitoring system for the oil&gas industry.
Europe can be the catalyst for a fundamental culture shift to slow climate change - but we have to act now, says James McCallum, co-founder and CEO of Scottish diversified energy services group Senergy.
The MD of a consultancy that specialises in helping companies, especially in the upstream oil&gas supply chain, find international markets is warning that local economies wholly or largely dependent on a single industry or company tread a dangerous road.
NOT for the first time, what's happening with the oil industry in Houston and the Gulf of Mexico provides an insight into influences impacting on companies and their employees involved in the North Sea, according to Alan Fergusson, of financial services consultancy Kudos.
Although modest in size, Aberdeen has long been a hotbed of innovation. The MRI scanner, self-seal envelope and even water polo - apparently first played in the freezing Dee - all originated in the city.