Once one of the world's key energy sources, Britain's North sea oil and gas output is poised for a further slump after shrinking by two thirds in the past 20 years, leaving the country increasingly dependent on imports. A windfall tax introduced last year as energy prices soared prompted oil and gas producers including some of the UK North Sea's biggest TotalEnergies and Harbour to cut investment in the basin…
U.S. oil producer Apache Corp on Friday said it was suspending drilling in the North Sea and reducing its British workforce because high taxes have made the operation less competitive.The unit of APA Corp did not say how many workers would be cut as a result of the move…
Britain's windfall tax on oil and gas producers will not be applied if prices drop below certain levels for six months in a row, the finance ministry said on Friday, in a move the government hopes will boost energy security.The energy profit…
UK-focused oil and gas company Jersey Oil & Gas has received an extension to the Second Term of its P2498 'Buchan' license in the UK North Sea from the North Sea Transition Authority ('NSTA').Also, the NSTA has approved Jersey Oil & Gas' request…
Malaysian FPSO leasing firm Bumi Armada said Friday that its Armada Kraken FPSO, on a contract with EnQuest in the UK North Sea, was recently shut-in following the failure of critical hydraulic submersible pump (HSP) transformers. The Kraken…
Norwegian oil and gas company DNO said Monday that the wellhead platform production facilities had been removed from the Schooner field offshore UK, in what the company said was the last major offshore operation under DNO’s multi-year North Sea decommissioning program…
Port of Aberdeen and Subsea 7 have secured a grant of £150,000 from the Scottish Government to investigate the feasibility of storing hydrogen underwater at the new Aberdeen South Harbour.The 'H2Shore - Hydrogen coastal storage and distribution'…
Offshore oil and gas services firm Stork has won a five-year contract, plus five one-year extension options with UK-based oil and gas firm Harbour Energy. The contract extends Stork’s asset integrity services in the North Sea on Harbour Energy’s Armada…
Oilfield services company Archer said Thursday it had won a five-year contract with Perenco UK Limited in the United Kingdom for the provision of Coiled Tubing and Pumping services.The contract contains two options of one year each and started May 3…
UK-based union Unite said Tuesday that around 1650 offshore contractors would start two new rounds of 48-hour strike action 'in an increasingly bitter dispute over jobs, pay, and conditions in the offshore sector.'Around 1650 contractors across…
Offshore well services firm Expro said Monday it had won a new contract with oil and gas company Harbour Energy for a well abandonment campaign as part of the decommissioning project for the Balmoral area, in the UK Continental Shelf.The multi-year contract…
UK-based oil and gas firm Spirit Energy is among the twelve companies that have this week been granted a carbon storage license by the UK North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) in the East Irish Sea.'This represents a further step towards their…
UK-based union Unite said Friday that around 600 of its offshore members at Bilfinger UK Limited have rejected new pay offers, and confirmed fresh strike action will now occur in June.'New pay offers were rejected by Unite members based on the offshore assets of the operators Ithaca…
United Oil & Gas has agreed to allow Quattro Energy more time to secure funding that will allow the companies to complete the North Sea block sale and purchase deal struck in January 2023.United Oil & Gas in agreed on the conditional sale of…
Britain's Unite union on Thursday said it had signed a recognition deal with offshore operator China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), covering around 140 workers on the Buzzard, Scott, and Golden Eagle platforms in the North Sea.CNOOC…