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US Senate and Kenny MacAskill: what about the relationship between Iran Air...
Kenny MacAskill has tonight (22nd July 2010) rightly refused an impertinent invitation from the American Senate to attend its hearing to give evidence into his release from Greeenock Jail, on...
View ArticleWild West Atlantic Frontier: UK Government to decide on high risk BP well off...
Another situation which will inflame nationalist sensibilities – and with good reason – is the fact that it is the UK Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, who will decide on the highly controversial...
View ArticleContinuing gas leak at Elgin platform as deepwater drilling starts west of...
(Updates below) 150 miles NE of Aberdeen, the gas leak at the now fully evacuated Elgin Platform is continuing.There is now an obvious well control issue.Staff from the associated drilling rig, Rowan...
View ArticleInteresting article from BP’s Tony Hayward on UK energy policy and role of...
On July 30th The Times carried an article by Tony Hayward, the former CEO of BP and now CEO of Genel Energy: Come wind or sun, we’ll still need fossil fuels.Since the article is behind a pay wall, for...
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Oil, the North Sea and Scottish independence: The North Sea
This is the third in a series of researched articles on the oil and gas industry, the situation in the North Sea and the relation of this overall picture to a potentially independent Scotland.We are...
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Oil, the North Sea and Scottish independence: Grangemouth – the game changer
This is the eighth and last of a series of researched articles on the oil and gas industry,the situation in the North Sea and the relation of this overall picture to a potentially independent...
View ArticleGrangemouth admission of intention to import shale gas confirms For Argyll...
Ineos, owners of the Grangemouth refinery and petro-chemical, announced yesterday, 10th December 2013, that they intend to import shale gas from the USA.This is just as we predicted in our recent late...
View ArticleNorth Sea oil & gas outlook
The North Sea oil and gas industry is facing job losses in the upstream side of operations, with Chevron and Shell having recently announced the cutting of 475 largely onshore jobs in Aberdeen, 250...
View ArticleStandard Life now restructuring to move accounts out of Scotland
What is frightening is not scaremongering, particularly when it is actually happening.As well as pension and investment funds now being actively transferred out of Scotland in increasing financial...
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Why North Sea is crisis for UK
A big part of the economic landscape of 2015 – and onwards - is the sharp fall in the price of oil, threatening continuing production in the North Sea, employment and state revenues. This will be the...
View ArticleOIl & Gas services Schlumberger confirms 100+ jobs cut
Following yesterday’s announcement that BP is cutting 300 jobs from its operations in the North Sea oil and gas sector, Schlumberger, the worlds biggest oil and gas offshore services company, has...
View ArticleNorth Sea caught in a nutcracker
There is a massive power game going on in the worldwide oil industry, between OPEC and the USA – a nutcracker of a game in which the pressure on the North Sea is no more than collateral damage.The game...
View ArticleBG Group joins other North Sea operators in cutting contractors’ rates
Over the last few months, major North Sea operators Apache, BP, Premier Oil, PSN and Wood Group have cut by 10% the rates they pay their contractors.At a staff meeting in Aberdeen on Friday 24th...
View ArticleHow not to sell oil
A tanker, the United Kalavryta, is today on her way, 28th January 2o15, from the Gulf of Mexico to Gibraltar, carrying one million barrels of crude oil from Kurdistan. She had arrived with this cargo...
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