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Fracking firm wins drilling approval
Added: 24 May 2016
North Yorkshire County Council has approved Third Energy’s request to drill for shale gas near the …
Intertek offers flow service
Added: 24 May 2016
Engineering solutions provider Intertek has recently launched an onsite Coriolis flow meter calibra…
Collaboration ‘vital’ for offshore industry
Added: 19 May 2016
Operators in the UK oil and gas industry are becoming more collaborative, a study by Oil & Gas UK a…
ABB rolls out safety systems software
Added: 17 May 2016
From its newly-developed Learning Centre in Cambridgeshire, ABB yesterday launched a number of init…
UK Continental Shelf offers ‘vast’ CO2 storage capacity
Added: 12 May 2016
There are no major technical hurdles to storing industrial scale CO2 offshore in the UK, according …
Government pledges £80m for national colleges
Added: 9 May 2016
The government has today announced plans to fund five National Colleges to guarantee the UK has a s…
Fracking ‘unlikely’ to contaminate water
Added: 29 Apr 2016
A study of the abandoned Selby coalfield in Yorkshire suggests fracking is unlikely to pose a pollu…
Intertek launches mobile calibration service
Added: 21 Apr 2016
Engineering solutions provider Intertek has launched an onsite Coriolis flow meter calibration serv…
Subsea firm seeks validation
Added: 28 Mar 2016
Offshore engineering specialist Red Marine has completed a programme of qualification testing of a …
Siemens to axe 2,500 oil & gas jobs
Added: 11 Mar 2016
Siemens has announced plans to cut 2,500 jobs from its oil & gas, metals and mining businesses.
Viewpoint: Sliding fortunes
Added: 7 Mar 2016
While falling oil prices are welcomed by many, they may spell serious issues ahead, writes North Ea…
Land of opportunity
Rob Smith | Added: 3 Mar 2016
With offshore exploration in the UK faltering, could decommissioning and greater investment onshore…
North Sea tax breaks ‘critical for competitiveness’
Added: 23 Feb 2016
Pressures on the North Sea have prompted industry body Oil & Gas UK to lobby for a significant perm…
BP predicts oil & gas energy ‘dominance’
Added: 11 Feb 2016
The 2016 Energy Outlook report published by BP suggests oil and gas will remain the dominant form o…
UK may struggle to meet CO2 targets after ‘disappointing’ U-turn
Louisa Hearn | Added: 10 Feb 2016
The government’s sudden decision to pull funding for carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects coul…
Total fires-up Shetland gas plant
Added: 8 Feb 2016
French oil and gas firm Total has begun production from its Laggan and Tormore gas and condensate f…
UK shale “within 10 years”
Rob Smith | Added: 2 Feb 2016
A letter leaked to Friends of the Earth (FoE) reveals government plans to implement industrial-scal…
Calibration: Field factors
Added: 22 Jan 2016
The case for calibrating equipment in either a workshop or the field is not always black and white,…
Schlumberger cuts 10,000 jobs
Added: 22 Jan 2016
Oilfield services firm Schlumberger has confirmed it cut 10,000 jobs in quarter four last year.
Energy Institute offers skills boost to industry
Energy Institute | Added: 20 Jan 2016
The energy industry is a sector in a constant state of change, which means maintaining and developi…
