An Aberdeen City Councillor, who spent 10 months working on the Piper Alpha enquiry, has joined the calls for Niantec to remove a Pokémon Gym that it has placed at the site of the memorial in Hazlehead Park.
North Sea strike action will resume again today with two three-hour stoppages across seven of Shell’s (LON:RDSB) platform.
Oil major Shell has completed improvement notices from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an incident led to the loss of containment of more than 800kg of gasoline.
The British Embassy in Norway has published fresh guidance for the friends and relatives of UK nationals who have died in the Scandinavian country. The online document contains advice about death reports and certificates, transportation of the deceased back to the UK, as well as information about inquests. It also has links to travel advice documents and victim support agencies.
Further strike action is expected on Shell’s North Sea assets.
An Aberdeen-based marine and offshore consultancy and safety firm today said it had clinched new contracts with two North Sea oil and gas majors. Seacroft Marine Consultants – which is based at the historic Roundhouse, a former navigation centre on Aberdeen’s Pocra Quay − will provide response and rescue vessel (ERRV) assurance services for BP and Centrica E&P. The BP deal runs for three years with two additional one year options, while the agreement with Centrica is for five years with three one year options.
Stocks including fresh water are said to be running out on a North Sea platform hit by strike action.
Statoil has handed two six-year contracts to energy logistics firm Peterson to provide support for its £1.5billion Dudgeon wind farm project in the southern North Sea. Peterson will provide Statoil with stevedoring and ship agency services, provisions delivery, staff transportation, as well as fuelling from its base in Great Yarmouth. The contract values were not disclosed.
The huge crane ship booked to lift the Brent Delta topside away in one piece left Rotterdam at the weekend ahead of offshore trials. Allsea’s twin-hulled Pioneering Spirit had been moored in Rotterdam since January 2015 for installation, commissioning and testing of the topsides lift system. If the southern North Sea trials go to plan, the vessel’s first job will be to remove the 13,500 tonne Yme mobile offshore production unit off Norway for Repsol.
A maritime trade union has claimed offshore workers could help plug a gap in coastal security staffing after a report claimed the UK border force was 'clearly under-resourced'.
A Norwegian port has won a contract to decommission Maersk’s Janice Floating Production Unit (FPU), sparking fears Scotland could miss out on vital work.
More and more Aberdonians are being forced to ask for state handouts as the impact of the oil and gas crisis deepens.
Centrica Plc’s Rough, the U.K.’s largest natural gas storage facility 9,000 feet below the North Sea bed, unexpectedly closed for the summer and will probably remain unavailable for most of the winter. The shutdown whipsawed prices in Europe’s biggest market. Here’s what you should know.
As the Wall Street reporting season grinds along, the news from the oil-patch is, by and large, gloomy with the exception of US onshore drilling where there is a distinct uptick in shale-related activity.
Ithaca Energy said its floating production facility, the FPF-1 has begun its sail away to the Stella field.
North Sea firm MOL Group increased its profits by a fifth in the first half of 2016 thanks to a record return from its downstream business. MOL, based in Budapest, Hungary, said the segment achieved earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (Ebitda) of 209billion Hungarian forints (£570million) on the back of strong petrochemicals and retail performance. But low oil prices saw MOL suffer a 20% drop in its upstream income – despite an 8% rise in average daily hydrocarbon production.
An Offshore Supply Vessel (OSV) which has 15 unpaid Indian nationals working onboard has been released after it was detained in Aberdeen Harbour.
Private healthcare firm Bupa has revealed a 45% half-year profits slump, which bosses have blamed partly on oil and gas employees' benefits being downgraded.
Statoil has been handed a number of improvement points for the Johan Sverdrup field by the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA).
Premier Oil said it has made a "significant" oil discovery in its Bagpuss prospect in the North Sea.
Talks are continuing between unions and Wood Group as workers move into the second day of a North Sea strike.
This incredible footage shows the 1700 ton substation for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm.
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Oil revenue to Norway from its state-owned fields contributed almost a third less in the first half of this year compared to 2015.
The Offshore Coordinating Group said it "strongly" backs the strike action being taken by workers in dispute with Wood Group over changes to pay and conditions.