RockRose completes takeover of Idemitsu’s North Sea fields
Oil firm RockRose Energy said today that it had completed the takeover of Idemitsu Petroleum UK after receiving approval from the Oil and Gas Authority.
Oil firm RockRose Energy said today that it had completed the takeover of Idemitsu Petroleum UK after receiving approval from the Oil and Gas Authority.
North Sea helicopter flights have been disrupted by the arrival of Storm Caroline.
Oil firm EnQuest has been ordered to improve safety procedures after high oxygen levels were discovered in an oil tank system on one of its installations.
Norwegian oil giant said today that all workers on the Mariner field are safe after a gangway between installations disconnected late last night.
The Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) today launches a new business “accelerator” to help budding companies take their pioneering products to market faster.
Hungarian oil firm MOL Group is weighing up the sale of its UK North Sea business, just four years after its arrival in the basin, a news report said.
Oil major Shell has revealed that the steel jacket for its Brent Alpha platform will be taken to Norway for scrapping.
Shell’s UK upstream boss yesterday hailed a “great year” and said the oil major expected to be busy in the North Sea in 2018.
The former First Minister Alex Salmond said if the oil price soars, an oil fund should be set up so that the people, not big oil companies, see the benefit.
A director at Deloitte said today that North Sea industry had made real progress in its collaboration drive, but that companies needed to "go faster" to lock in the gains.
BP’s Clair was one of the North Sea’s original giants.
Ace Group plans to cement its position as one of the biggest suppliers of freight services to North Sea industry after securing a seven-figure lending package from Clydesdale Bank.
A ship in the North Sea battles to hold off huge waves as it makes its way to its destination. The unnamed ship was filmed making its way through accompanying wind and rain. Watch as it struggles through 20 foot high North Sea waves.
Oil firm Siccar Point Energy said today that it had booked a rig for drilling the Lyon well next year.
An oil worker has died after falling ill and being airlifted from a North Sea platform.
EnQuest became the operator of another North Sea field and a major oil terminal today.
Maersk Oil said today that project partners had taken a final investment decision on the £2.5billion Tyra gas field in the North Sea.
The worst of the oil and gas downturn is over, a new survey shows.
Upland Resources today confirmed its buy-in to a North Sea prospect.
Enquest's flagship North Sea Kraken development has got off to a flying production start.
DiveSource, an international offshore crewing and diving consultancy based in Westhill, Aberdeenshire, said yesterday it was poised to double the size of its workforce after winning a multimillion-pound North Sea deal.
A decommissioning expert at the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) said today that efforts to lower North Sea dismantling costs risked a clash with competition watchdogs.
A North Sea field being sold by BP could test US policy towards Iran, a news report said.
Fledgling decommissioning firm Well-Safe Solutions has said that its onshore marine base will be located in the Port of Dundee.
French catering and facilities management firm Sodexo has won two new contracts worth a combined value of £4million.