The director of a multi-million pound decommissioning study has voiced concern that any final decision over the removal of Shell’s Brent platform legs might ‘harden’ public perception toward his project.
A government report has revealed CNOOC was the biggest tax spender in the North Sea last year while energy giant Shell paid the least on balance after a reimbursement.
North Sea newcomer Decipher Energy has delivered first oil from the Orlando field less than two years after taking over the 10 million barrel project from a victim of the downturn.
Canadian Natural Resources (CNR) International has today announced that it has purchased the Joslyn oil sands lease from French oil giant Total for £173 million.
North Sea operator Canadian Natural Resources (CNR) International (UK) has confirmed production was shutdown on its Ninian Central platform on Sunday due to a hydrocarbon release.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has confirmed that it intends to take "no further action" in its probe of the Ninian Southern rig, which had to be down-manned last week amid concerns over faulty lifeboats.
Canadian oil firm CNR International said late last night that it was taking almost 60 people off one of its North Sea rigs due to a "potential lifeboat capacity issue".
Almost 20 North Sea oil and gas companies were recognised for the work they’ve undertaken to ensure healthier working lives for staff at the NHS Grampian Healthy Working Lives Awards.
Canadian operator, CNR International, have issued a statement in response to a new online petition calling for them to be stripped of their operator's licence.
The North Sea business of CNR International booked pre-tax losses of £86million as production declined last year, figures filed at Companies House show.
But the losses were an improvement on the £156million loss the firm made in 2013 as the firm felt the impact of outages on its Banff and Kyle fields in the Central North Sea about 200 miles east of Aberdeen.
Production from Banff and Kyle was suspended in December 2011 when the FPSO was hit by sever storms that winter. Production on the fields started back in July 2014.
Energy service giant Petrofac said today its projects and operations business unit had secured contract renewals for UK North Sea work worth a total of about $400million (£252million).