Watch: Decommissioning of Shell Curlew FPSO gets underway in Norway
Work to break up and recycle a massive vessel, which served the UK North Sea for more than 20 years, has begun in Norway.
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£160m battery manufacturing factory in Dundee creates 200+ jobs
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ScotWind: First mover advantage is pointless if you’re not actually first
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Extinction Rebellion activists who hijacked Dundee oil rig ordered to compensate RNLI
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Saturn Fluid Engineering to double Dundee footprint amid ‘remarkable’ growth
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World’s most powerful tidal turbine starts generating electricity off Orkney
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Dundee oil rig Extinction Rebellion hijackers given climate change conference warning
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World’s most powerful tidal turbine to be launched in Dundee next week
A groundbreaking new tidal turbine manufactured in Dundee is to be launched from the city’s port next week.
Port of Dundee firm to add 20 staff after major renewables contract win
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Headcount slashed at Augean’s North Sea decommissioning business
Waste management firm Augean was back in the black during a 2020 marked by the axing of more than half of the workers at its North Sea division.
Dundee accelerator programme looking for Scottish SMEs to drive decarbonisation agenda
An innovative accelerator programme that aims to help support Scotland’s journey to net zero is on the lookout for SMEs to be part of its next cohort.
Plans re-emerge for Angus solar farm which would be one of UK’s largest
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Exclusive: ‘World first’ floating green hydrogen project coming to Aberdeen
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Remembering Ocean Odyssey
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Port of Dundee plans freeport bid to bring investment and jobs to city
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Curlew – a decom object lesson
I’m baffled by the Curlew decommissioning saga that will now see the life-expired FPSO be dismantled in Norway rather than via the original arrangement whereby it was to be prepped in Dundee prior to being towed to Turkey for chopping up.
Curlew FPSO departs Dundee due to lack of decommissioning facilities
The Shell Curlew FPSO (floating production storage and offloading vessel), which had been moored in Dundee for decommissioning work, has left the port.
UK will keep vast majority of its decommissioning work, expert says after Shell Curlew flight
The “vast majority” of UK offshore oil infrastructure will be decommissioned in Britain despite competition from Norwegian yards for the biggest jobs, a market expert claimed.
Dundee renewables firm partners with local college to deliver wind turbine training
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Curlew project ‘huge success’ for Dundee despite being halted, says decommissioning boss
Dundee will become the go-to hub for decommissioning work in the UK according to the man who has spearheaded the city’s move into the sector.
Courier Business Briefing: Forth Ports chief executive to outline his vision for Port of Dundee
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Potential for ‘thousands’ of jobs as Sir Ian Wood unveils plans for Aberdeen ‘Energy Transition Zone’
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Pryme Group begins redundancy process in Newcastle amid ‘continued losses’
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VIDEO: Former North Sea worker stages climate protest at First Minister’s Questions
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Seven Extinction Rebellion activists in court following Dundee rig protest
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