Shetland angles for oil-rig dismantling role
Industry
Shetland is in line to become an international hub for decommissioning work as concerns emerge over the health of the
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Norway to power rigs with Hywind copy
Production
Norwegian oil and gas giant Equinor is investigating the possibility of building a floating offshore wind farm to power oilfields
Norway looks to copy Hywind
Transmission
The Norwegian energy minister has said a version of the Scottish Hywind floating wind project would be welcome off Norway’s
Sail technology could boost wind power
Production
Techniques used to design Olympic yachts could revolutionise wind energy, according to an Edinburgh firm designing turbine blades. The design
Total faces North Sea strike
Industry
North Sea oil workers on three platforms owned by French energy giant Total have gone on strike in a dispute
Hydrogen car-ferry project launches
Storage
A European consortium led by a Scottish engineering company and university is aiming to launch the world’s first hydrogen-powered car
Mariner votes to strike
Industry
Equinor’s Mariner heavy-oil platform in the North Sea is facing industrial action after the British GMB union said its members
Ireland hopes to copy Hywind
Transmission
Ireland’s Atlantic coastline has some of Europe’s most powerful waves, but the republic has so far been incapable of harnessing
Total faces North Sea strikes
Production
Total’s North Sea oil workers are to stage a series of offshore strikes in a dispute over pay and conditions.
First Hywind battery fitted
Storage
Norway’s state-run Equinor and renewable firm Masdar from Abu Dhabi have attached the first battery to the floating Hywind wind
Microsoft launches eco-data centre
Industry
Microsoft has dropped a data centre into the sea off the UK island of Orkney in an attempt to boost
Learn from 1988 disaster: Oslo safety chief
Industry
Learning the lessons from the Piper Alpha disaster is important for everyone in the industry “regardless of the country”, according
Scotland eyes more wind farms
Environment
Scotland continues to lead European wind power and hopes to develop its investment in the sector with plans to lease
Total’s Iran stake at risk: Tehran
Industry
French oil giant Total, the only western energy major investing in Iran, will lose its stake in the vast South
Verus buys Statoil North Sea stake
Production
Verus Petroleum has acquired a 17-per-cent stake in the Chevron-operated North Sea Alba field from Statoil. About 200km north-east of