Npower sheds customers as losses widen
Npower saw losses widen last year as the energy giant lost more than 650,000 customers amid fierce competition.
Npower saw losses widen last year as the energy giant lost more than 650,000 customers amid fierce competition.
Italian oil firm Eni today announced a major discovery off Angola. The Agogo discovery is thought to hold 450-650 million barrels of oil. The well was drilled by the Poseidon drillship. Agogo follows other commercial discoveries at Kalimba and Afoxé. Eni operates the block with a 36.8% stake. Its partners are Sonangol and SSI Fifteen.
Nominations for the 2019 edition of the north-east’s business Oscars – the Northern Star Business Awards – open today.
Fresh from his comfortable re-election, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari faces a huge hurdle to keep his vow to end the economy’s addiction to oil: win a lasting peace in the crude-rich Niger River delta.
The U.S. government cut its oil production forecast for the first time in six months as drillers scale back in smaller shale plays and the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
Inverness-based Global Energy Group (GEG) has announced multi-million pound plans to add more than 800 feet of new quayside to its Nigg Energy Park facility at the entrance to the Cromarty Firth.
Cairn Energy’s chief executive has said costs around the Kraken project will not deter the firm from further investment in the North Sea.
Scotland's energy minister said "patience was wearing thin" with wind developers who take Scottish Government support, only to hand construction contracts to foreign suppliers.
Port of Cromarty Firth (PCF) chief executive, Bob Buskie, last night said that expansion projects totalling more than £100million by his organisation and the Global Energy Group (GEG) would help secure “jobs and prosperity” for the area.
One of the world’s largest civilian cargo planes has helped deliver two helicopters to Aberdeen for Babcock Offshore’s North Sea operations.
Aberdeen-headquartered Exceed has secured a major contract to drill the first deepwater well off the coast of Guinea Bissau in West Africa.
Union members at the Shetland Gas Plant have started the first of a series of 24-hour strikes today.
EDF Energy’s new renewables arm is looking to add more jobs in the north-east and Highlands as it ramps up its projects there.
A controversial hydro scheme in a Highland glen famed for a starring role in the 007 movie Skyfall has been given the go-ahead.
What springs to mind when you hear the word Data? If you are a child of the 80’s like me, your first thought a couple of years ago may well have been the quirky little tech kid from one of the decades favourite movies, Goonies. A couple of years ago maybe, but there are few today that will not be aware of the intrinsic role that data plays in the digital economy agenda and the reshaping of the industries for which it represents the greatest value.
North Sea explorer i3 Energy has managed to raise £16 million through a share placing.
The world is moving in the wrong direction in its fight against climate change, and BP Chief Executive Bob Dudley said that energy companies must step up and play their part to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The industry is still just “scratching the surface” of what can be achieved through greater access to data.
Lloyd’s Register (LR) will scale back its inspection services as part of a wider effort to “reposition” the professional services firm for the energy transition.
A Scottish renewables trade body boss has admitted that the vote to leave the European Union came at an inopportune moment for the sector.
The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) has announced the appointment of Lesley Birse to its board.