EnQuest to shrink further as firm gets ready to call time on Dons fields
Oil firm EnQuest will shrink further after deciding to call time on a group of fields in the northern North Sea.
Oil firm EnQuest will shrink further after deciding to call time on a group of fields in the northern North Sea.
Engineering service firm Babcock International slumped into the red in 2019-20 after suffering hefty impairments largely pinned on the “deteriorating” oil and gas market.
It is hard to know where to begin when describing the scale of the crisis gripping Big Oil.
EnQuest said today that it was “on track” to achieve cost savings targeted for 2020 and reiterated that its operations were “materially unaffected” by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Vessel-owner Prosafe has reported a significant knockdown in its fleet utilisation rate for the first quarter of 2020.
North-east energy sector chiefs largely welcomed an extension of the UK Government furlough scheme, but cautioned it may do little to roll back the tide of oil and gas redundancies.
Around 200 North Sea workers have been evacuated with suspected Covid-19 symptoms over the last six weeks as the sector has attempted to manage the spread of the virus.
An Aberdeen MSP has written to a clutch of North Sea firms calling on them to reconsider their decision to terminate hundreds of staff rather than use a UK Government-backed furlough scheme.
A north-east MSP has called for the Scottish Government to engage Westminster and provide clarity to North Sea firms over who qualifies for the Covid-19 furlough scheme.
The struggling UK oil and gas sector was dealt another blow on Tuesday as EnQuest confirmed it expected to cut 530 positions.
Around 200 oil workers are to be laid off – and staff are furious they are not being furloughed.
EnQuest has insisted its day-to-day operations are not “materially affected” by the coronavirus outbreak.
EnQuest today announced deeper cuts to its spending plans as it published full-year results showing it lurched into the red in 2019.
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The UK Government has approved a plan to decommission a North Sea development less than five years after first oil.
EnQuest is to delay publication of its full year financial results due to the coronavirus.
Oil and gas operator EnQuest is understood to have multiple suspected coronavirus cases on board a Northern North Sea platform.
The Financial Conduct Authority has asked companies due to announce annual results to delay publication because of the coronavirus.
More than a dozen UK North Sea projects are facing deferral in light of the oil price drop, an analyst has predicted.
Preparations for strike action at a key oil terminal in Shetland have been suspended after a new pay deal for workers was hammered out.
Oil firm EnQuest intends to permanently shut down its Thistle platform in the UK North Sea.
A group of North Sea operators have struck a deal with a helicopter operator to bring confirmed and suspected Covid-19 sufferers back to shore.
Offshore accommodation provider Prosafe will support the removal of subsea tanks from EnQuest's Thistle Alpha platform in the UK North Sea.
Oil and gas firm EnQuest has confirmed plans to decommissioning its fire-damaged Heather Alpha platform in the northern section of the UK North Sea.
Workers have voted “emphatically” in favour of strike action at the Sullom Voe terminal in Shetland.