North Sea-focused oil and gas firms are looking beyond their short-term recruitment needs by launching graduate recruitment programs. TAQA Bratani, the UK-focused subsidiary of Abu Dhabi state-owned energy firm TAQA, plans to launch a graduate program within two years while Norwegian technical services firm Det Norske Veritas (DNV) announced…
The time it has taken the UK government to lift a ban on fracking has been described as “mystifying” and “frustrating” by the Australian company that owns 43% of Cuadrilla Resources, the company seeking permission to extract shale gas in Lancashire via hydraulic fracturing.
In a frank, at times terse,…
Total announces that its affiliate Total E&P Norge has made an oil discovery in the Garantiana prospect located on Production License 554 (PL554) in the Norwegian North Sea, 185 kilometers northwest of Bergen and 30 kilometers northeast of the Visund Field, at water depths of 384 meters. Total E&P…
The UK Government released details of its energy security strategy alongside its Energy Bill Thursday, detailing a focus on maximizing economic production of oil and gas among other measures designed to improve the country’s energy security.
The government’s Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey announced in Parliament a bill…
