Police Scotland offered oil rig to help train for North Sea protests
Police Scotland has been offered use of an idle oil rig in order to train against a recent wave of protests in the North Sea.
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‘We want to grow further from here’: NEO Energy rising up North Sea ranks
NEO Energy plans to continue its growth spurt after announcing a billion-dollar deal to acquire ExxonMobil assets in the North Sea.
CEO Looney wants BP’s oil business to be ‘best, not biggest’
BP chief executive Bernard Looney said today that he wants the company's oil business to be “the best, not the biggest”.
Kosmos plans spending boost in 2021
Kosmos Energy expects its capital expenditure to reach $575-625 million this year, driven largely by its work with BP offshore Mauritania and Senegal.
Big oil incurred record loss in 2020 – Rystad
The downturn brought by the Covid-19 pandemic and the accelerating energy transition has created a new reality for the world’s oil and gas industry, whose production will peak lower and earlier than expected before the 2020 market crisis, a Rystad Energy analysis shows.
India’s ONGC to boost deep-water KG gas volumes
India’s state-backed Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is set to boost deep-water gas production from the Krishna Godavari (KG) basin to between 2.5 million and 3 million cubic meters per day (cm/d) by May this year.
BP checks in with Egypt ahead of Raven start
A number of high-ranking BP executives have held talks with Egyptian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek El Molla amid preparations to begin the Raven project.
Big oil invests in geothermal energy startup
Companies including the venture arms of BP and Chevron invested $40 million in a startup that aims to use the fossil fuel industry’s drilling experience to expand a technology that harvests low-carbon energy from heat below the earth’s surface.
Repsol and Petronas set for key wildcat in Indonesia’s deep waters
Repsol and Petronas are on track to drill the much-anticipated Rencong-1X wildcat in the frontier deep waters of Indonesia’s North Sumatra basin.
The case for data decarbonisation
This is the first in a series, by Snowflake, examining the concept of net zero data and how advances in technology can help the world’s largest organisations—especially those which are particularly emissions-intensive like oil and gas—reduce the carbon emissions footprint of their data.
Updated: Infrastrata buys Bifab Methil and Arnish yards in £850,000 deal
Infrastrata has announced the acquisition of the Methil and Arnish yards of the collapsed Scottish manufacturer Burntisland Fabrication (Bifab).
Ex-BP geophysicist aims to help working parents drop the juggling act
Being a working parent is challenging at the best of times, but the last year, and in particular the second lockdown, has been tough – really, really tough.
BP to reduce number of workers on ETAP after three further Covid-19 cases on board
BP is reducing the number of workers on one of its North Sea platforms after an increase in the number of Covid-19 cases recorded on board.
BP grandee joins Apache board of directors
Apache has announced the appointment of oil and gas veteran Lamar McKay to its board of directors.
North Sea firms see shares jump on oil price rally
North Sea operators including Shell, BP, EnQuest and Premier Oil have all seen their shares jump in light of the oil price rally.
Kentech strikes deal to buy SNC-Lavalin’s oil and gas business
Energy services firm Kentech has struck a deal to buy Canadian engineering company SNC-Lavalin’s oil and gas division.
India courts ExxonMobil with upstream offer
The Indian government is trying to persuade ExxonMobil to take stakes in offshore acreage controlled by state-backed Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).
BP ‘likely’ to be planning Scotland offshore wind entry
BP is “likely” planning entry into the Scotland offshore wind market, according to an industry expert, after securing a landmark move into the UK sector.
BP and partner paying £900m for entry into UK offshore wind market
BP has entered the UK offshore wind market with leases for a combined three-gigawatts of projects in the Irish Sea.
BP and Oxbotica complete self-driving vehicle trial at German refinery
An autonomous vehicle developed by an Oxford University spinout has passed a trial at a BP refinery in Germany with flying colours.
Sparrows accused of refusing to pay quarantining workers, firm rebuts claims
Workers and unions have accused an Aberdeen-headquartered energy services firm of refusing to pay staff that have been forced to quarantine due to Covid-19 concerns.
Palantir signs up to BP’s new energy ambitions
Palantir Technologies has extended its partnership with BP, as part of the oil company’s drive to reach net zero.
Huge year for establishing UK oil industry’s net-zero credentials, experts say
Experts from EY, Wood Mackenzie and NorthStone Advisers say setting renewable energy targets will be high on oil and gas firms' agendas.
VIDEO: 60,000 tonne BP Argos platform sails off on voyage to Texas
Argos, the second platform for the "super-giant" BP Mad Dog field in the Gulf of Mexico, has set sail from its manufacturing yard in South Korea.
BP targeting low carbon solutions with new strategic collaboration agreement
BP has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with Rosneft Oil Company focused on supporting carbon management and sustainability activities.