Britains's ongoing dispute with Argentina over control of the Falkland Islands is rumbling on – despite a bloody war and plans for the first oil development there.
[Read more ] • 06.02.2013
Britain's current energy minister John Hayes is leaving the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
[Read more ] • 28.03.2013
Statoil said it still has 12 employees being held hostage at its In Amenas gas facility in Algeria today.
[Read more ] • 17.01.2013
Energy Secretary Ed Davey was launching a new Energy Bill today promising to cut the cost of electricity supplies but it will also have implications for the North Sea.
[Read more ] • 29.11.2012
British energy policy will in future provide much more support for renewables in a forthcoming Energy Bill.
[Read more ] • 23.11.2012
Greenpeace says the proposed new UK Energy Bill does not go far enough to support green energy generation.
Britain's Energy Secretary Ed Davey has told business leaders he will make it easier for energy investment in future through measures which are promised in a forthcoming Energy Bill.
[Read more ] • 19.10.2012
Malcom Wicks, the former UK energy minister in the last Labour government, has died aged 65.
[Read more ] • 02.10.2012
Britain's newly appointed Energy Minister John Hayes says he has come to the job at a crucial time and has pledged that the country will not be reliant on any single energy technology but on a “balance low-carbon mix.”
[Read more ] • 06.09.2012
Britain's Secretary of State for Energy Ed Davey has pointed to a future beyond 2030 with less reliance on fossil fuels for power generation.
[Read more ] • 14.09.2012
The Department of Energy and Climate Change has told Offshore.no/International that potential conflicts of interest were examined before Lord Deben's appointment to the Climate Change Committee.
[Read more ] • 12.09.2012
Former Conservative Minister John Gummer – who is the chairman of the Forewind Consortium including Statoil and Statkraft which is seeking to build huge wind farms in the North Sea - has been appointed to advise the UK government on climate change issues.
Both sides in the Norwegian oil industry pay and pensions dispute are being forced back to the negotiation table after the government stepped in to force the two sides to talk, averting a major shut down of production at the last minute.
[Read more ] • 10.07.2012
New tax allowances offered tot eh UK's offshore oil industry are less than expected according to consulting group KPMG.
[Read more ] • 10.09.2012
A Scottish business leader has suggested that the UK can be the subsea capital of the world based on the expertise and experience in the country.
Offshore operators have been given a new boost to their profitability with the introduction today of new tax measures aimed at increasing North Sea oil investment.
[Read more ] • 07.09.2012
Britain's BG Group is says it is set to roll out a new field development plan for the giant Karachaganak gas and condensate field onshore Kazakhstan now that the country's government has finalised participation in the project.
[Read more ] • 28.06.2012
Britain's North Sea regime is to be governed by a new Minister after the UK coalition government cabinet reshuffle saw John Hayes appointed to replace Charles Hendry as the UK's new Energy Minister.
[Read more ] • 05.09.2012
A British national newspaper has highlighted a potential conflict of interest over the appointment of a former UK Minister who chairs an offshore energy development group to a key government climate change committee.
[Read more ] • 20.08.2012
Oil and Gas UK has predicted challenges remain for the UK offshore industry in keeping production up and arresting a fall in drilling activity.
[Read more ] • 06.07.2012
Statoil has unveiled a major new policy statement saying it expects global growth in energy demand towards 2040.
[Read more ] • 21.06.2012
British energy minister Charles Hendry has held talks with his opposite number in Ireland Pat Rabbite to discuss the future of renewable energy trading.
Falkland Islanders are going to the polls next year to decide whether or not they remain as a British protectorate.
[Read more ] • 13.06.2012
Falkland islanders are heading to the Scottish oil capital to learn what they can about how to tap the oil and gas discoveries that have been made in the South Atlantic.
[Read more ] • 03.05.2012
Pressure is being cranked up on the British government by Argentina over the Falklands Islands 30 years after the war there.
[Read more ] • 20.06.2012
Energy giant Centrica's UK headquarters in Windsor have been blocked this morning by Greenpeace protesters angry about rising bills.
[Read more ] • 30.04.2012
London-listed African explorer Sterling Resources says it can see no immediate prospect of a settlement of a border dispute which is affecting one of its deepwater licence areas offshore Cameroon.
[Read more ] • 19.04.2012
Russia’s Rosneft and ExxonMobil have inked agreements to implement a strategic co-operation agreement to cover work together offshore in the Black Sea and the Arctic Kara Sea.
[Read more ] • 17.04.2012
British homes may one day be heated by electricy generated from the volcanoes in Iceland under an international agreement which has just been signed.
[Read more ] • 31.05.2012
Scotland's government has made out the economic case for breaking away from the United Kingdom saying that North Sea oil alone is worth £1.5 trillion.