A British freelance video journalist, a Russian photojournalist and 28 Greenpeace International activists, including five Britons, who were seized while protesting against Arctic oil drilling have formally been charged with piracy. The activists scaled Gazprom’s oil rig last month in protest against Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom’s plans to drill in the Arctic, which led […]

The UK Government has deprived the oil and gas industry of £10 billion worth of contracts and up to 10,000 jobs by failing to support bids made by UK firms for North Sea contracts. In a letter to MPs, British oil rig maker OGN Group warned the country’s manufacturers would go out of business if […]

An explosion at an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday left one dead, another worker missing and hospitalised 11 more. Over the weekend ships and helicopters were looking for the two workers who vanished when the blast rocked the rig and set it on fire. The oil rig off the coast of […]

Changes to the tax regime are boosting the UK’s oil and gas sector and helping to stop production declining, according to a trade body. Global banks and lenders now see investing in the North Sea in a “new light” after the Chancellor’s tax relief for the sector, including a second tax break for oilfields in […]

Greenpeace has finally ended its five-day protest at an Arctic oil rig. The campaign group had been trying to stop Gazprom from starting to drill for oil in the Pechora Sea off the north west Russian coast. On the last day of the protest a Greenpeace speedboat carrying campaigners capsized as it tried to stop a ship […]

The safety group tasked with assessing the UK’s ability to cope with oil spills is “confident” high safety standards will continue, but found that there is still work to be done. The Oil Spill Prevention and Response Advisory Group, which was formed in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico disaster, made the assertion in […]