Equinor gets exploration green-light for Ragnfrid Nord
The Petroleum Safety Authority of Norway has announced consent for Equinor to commence exploration drilling in block 6406/2 in the Norwegian Sea.
The Petroleum Safety Authority of Norway has announced consent for Equinor to commence exploration drilling in block 6406/2 in the Norwegian Sea.
Former head of executive vice president, global strategy and business development at Equinor, John Knight, is to join Norwegian oil and gas private-equity firm HitechVision.
A north-east community benefit scheme set up by wind farm developer Vattenfall is to get off the ground in August, the firm said yesterday.
Microsoft has sunk a datacentre off the coast of Orkney to create quicker and “eco-friendly” internet.
A tanker carrying a gas oil payload broke down off the Outer Hebridean island of Barra last night.
Spanish oil giant Repsol will invest about £7billion in its upstream oil and gas business over the next two years.
Fort Worth-based Double Eagle Energy plans to merge with the Permian Basin business of Denver's FourPoint Energy to create a new West Texas player named DoublePoint Energy.
Houston's EV Energy Partners emerged from bankruptcy this week and changed its name to Harvest Oil & Gas Corp.
Australian firm Woodside has handed oil field service giant TechnipFMC the contract for upgrading the Pluto platform for water treatment.
Questions need to be raised over why lessons from Piper Alpha have not been put into practice elsewhere to help prevent tragedies such as the Grenfell fire.
Oil and gas services group ICR Integrity, of Aberdeen, has joined the growing throng of firms reaping the rewards of diversification into new markets.
The man responsible for the exhaustive public inquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster has condemned management for ignoring “warning signs” the tragedy could take place.
An initiative to support oil and gas professionals who were made redundant has announced the creation of six new businesses.
Oil industry safety chiefs have condemned the overuse of confusing acronyms and urged colleagues to ditch the “macho nonsense”.
The founder of DeltaTek Global has learned a lot in the three years since he started up the oilfield tool manufacturing business.
Umbilicals International (UI), part of Seanamic Group, has opened a new facility in Rosyth at is looks to continue growth in the oil and gas market.
ExxonMobil has bought half of Equinor’s interest in the BM-S-8 block offshore Brazil, which contains part of the 2-billion-barrel, pre-salt Carcara oil field.
Geologist and entrepreneur Craig Lindsay is used to rolling with the punches.
One lucky reader will win a relaxing country break for two people at the Macdonald Pittodrie House Hotel, set in the heart of rural Aberdeenshire, for taking part in Energy Voice's annual research survey.
Aberdeen-based Subsea Supplies has launched a new division as part of an exclusivity licence to produce an international product line.
A £200 million investment package has been promised by the Welsh First Minister in a plea to Westminster not to ditch plans for a tidal lagoon in Swansea.
Much has been written about adaptation, change and innovation in the oil and gas industry in 2017.
A new course is being launched by Aberdeen University to bridge the skills gap facing by the energy sector in data management.
With output of around 4.4 million barrels per day (as of March 2018), Iraq is the second largest oil producer in OPEC after Saudi Arabia, and holds the world’s fifth largest proven crude oil reserves.
An energy firm’s successful £100 million-plus compensation claim following a tunnel collapse at a Highland hydro-electric scheme is to go to Britain’s highest court.