An oil spill in the North Sea is estimated to amount to several hundred tonnes, making it the biggest such leak in more than a decade, according to UK Government figures... more
BP today fires the starting gun on one of the biggest investments in the North Sea in the past decade, despite protests from the industry over George Osborne's tax grab in the last Budget
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Britain's biggest oil major, Royal Dutch Shell, announces it has stopped examining some North Sea projects due to Chancellor George Osborne's Budget raid on profits earned in the waters... more
Oil explorer Xcite Energy says it will continue with its North Sea development plans, contrasting with lobbyists' claims that the Budget's £2 billion tax raid on profits from the area would stop investment and risk tens of thousands of jobs... more
BP hoists a "for sale" sign over swathes of its North Sea assets and the Wytch Farm onshore oilfield in Dorset, but claims it is not part of a move to quit UK exploration... more
Oil explorer Nautical Petroleum saw its shares jump 24% today after it raised £87.5 million from the sale of a 20.67% stake in a North Sea licence to Statoil UK... more
BP boss Tony Hayward defends the firm’s safety record in the North Sea to MPs, insisting criticisms have not exposed “any fundamental weakness”
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For the second time in a week the oil companies which are behind the largest discovery in the North Sea have raised their estimates for the amount of oil in the Catcher field... more
Lower oil prices and a declining interest in the North Sea where it has cut production by a third, has seen revenues at Tullow Oil fall 23% to £290 million in the first half of 2009 ... more
North Sea oil explorers, windfarmers, gas storers and CO2 capturers have been promised they are Britain’s future as the Chancellor announced a Budget-within-a-Budget for the energy and green technology industries... more
North Sea oil explorers, windfarmers, gas storers and CO2 capturers have been promised they are Britain’s future as the Chancellor announced a Budget-within-a-Budget for the energy and green technology industries... more
Rescuers resumed their search at first light for the eight people still missing after yesterday's fatal helicopter crash in the North Sea, but with little hope of finding anyone alive... more
Energy analysis: It is being billed as the next North Sea boom. This week the tentative go-ahead was given for the construction of up to 2000 giant turbines off the coast of Scotland... more
Energy: Dana Petroleum moved to pick off debt-ridden fellow North Sea specialist Bow Valley Energy in a deal that should raise Dana's daily output by as much as a fifth... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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