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A recent report found widespread support among North Sea oil and gas workers for a career in renewable energy.
Decommissioning offshore structures is expensive and environmentally damaging – so why is it illegal to leave them where they are?
It’s a policy to help the environment, so where’s the evidence to support it?
It may be just as well the UK government scrapped its previous carbon capture competition.
Why go to all that bother when you can just half-fill the kettle?
Carbon capture is fundamentally flawed. Here’s plan B.
The case for dismantling and recycling oil rigs is far from clear cut.
Restoring the North Sea to a ‘pristine’ state isn’t necessarily the best thing for its eco-systems.
Calculus helped determined the outcome of World War I’s biggest naval battle, 100 years ago.
Norway’s petroleum sector is its most important industry. The petroleum sector accounts for 21.5% of its GDP, and almost half (48.9%) of total exports. In 2013 Norway was ranked the 15th-largest oil producer…
Predicting oil price movements is as risky as exploring for oil itself. The average price for crude fell 10.3% from the start of 2014 to the date of the Scottish independence referendum on September 18…
The dramatic and unexpected 20% fall in oil prices since mid-June has caused alarm in Scotland, the UK and indeed worldwide. Why did oil prices slump to a four-year low of US$84 (£52) per barrel this week…
Economic and political dynamite. That’s the only way to describe the new report by N-56, an admittedly pro-independence think tank, that suggests that the remaining tax revenue from North Sea oil and gas…
The UK North Sea is attracting attention once again after being overshadowed by the shale debate for quite some time. Most recently this has been thanks to the UK government’s announcement this week of…
When the UK Environmental Audit Committee investigated the issue of protecting our marine environment last month, it concluded that there had been a woeful lack of decisive action from the government so…
Scotland’s referendum debate has so far centred mainly on practical issues and medium-term choices like currency, new entities’ share of public debt, and membership of the EU. Far less has been said about…
The recent concerns raised by the chief executives of BP and Shell, Bob Dudley and Ben van Beurden, about a possible “yes” outcome in the Scottish referendum might seem a bit puzzling given their huge…
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