United Kingdom
Industry
Norwegian land drilling contractor Ability Drilling has been awarded a US$19.3mn contract by Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) to drill gas storage caverns at the Aldbrough project...
2008-08-07Companies
China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) has made an approach to UK-listed Imperial Energy.
2008-08-04Economy
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to resist mounting pressures calling for a windfall tax to be levied on energy companies. Instead the government is reportedly working on...
2008-08-04Political Risk
Royal Dutch Shell has reported a 33% year-on-year (y-o-y) increase in net income on the back of record crude oil and higher natural gas prices. The results failed to exceed analysts'...
2008-07-31Economy
British major BP has reported record quarterly profits in Q208. BP saw a 28% increase in Q2 profit from US$7.37bn in Q207 to US$9.46bn in Q208, largely attributed to high crude oil...
2008-07-29Companies
US major ConocoPhillips has started producing from its Callanish and Brodgar fields, which are part of the Britannia Satellites development, in the UK's section of the North Sea....
2008-07-29Companies
The British government faced criticism on July 25 for attempting to water down the language of a piece of European legislation mandating priority access to the National Grid for wind...
2008-07-25Companies
Britain's BG Group has reported a record 92% increase in operating profit to GBP1.43bn (US$2.9bn) for Q208 compared with Q207.
2008-07-24
