North Sea

Oil and gas workers in the North East and Aberdeen are poised for an ‘unjust transition’. Photo: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

North Sea oil and gas workers braced for 'harmful' impact

Pensioners are having fewer meals, turning down their heating and visiting libraries to keep warm because of cuts to their winter fuel allowance, a report issued two months ago said. Photo: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Starmer reveals policy U-turn on winter fuel payments cut

There is a drive to reskill North Sea oil and gas workers to undertake renewables work.

The tax that North Sea business leaders are demanding is scrapped

Ursula von der Leyen and Sir Keir Starmer have been involved in talks to reach the new deal

What Sir Keir Starmer's EU reset deal means for Scotland

There is a drive to reskill North Sea oil and gas workers to undertake renewables work.

Exclusive Energy minister sparks fears of Cabinet row over low-carbon cash

Carbon capture could allow fossil fuels to be burned without adding to the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (Picture: Saul Loeb)

Labour needs to back carbon capture project to help save North East Scotsman comment

The move includes a new energy campus in Aberdeen

Civil service jobs moving to Scotland in UK Government shake-up

Energy Minister Michael Shanks with Cerulean Winds' alliance partners on a tour of the Port of Ardersier near Inverness hearing about the Aspen floating windfarm which will create over 1,000 jobs.

Labour minister: £11bn wind boom shows Grangemouth lessons learned

Killer whales breach off the coast of Scotland.

Watch: Unbelievable moment killer whales breach off coast of Scotland

An oil rig in the North Sea

Flynn confronts Starmer over 250 Harbour Energy North Sea job losses

The letter written by Ella Ranson to her husband George, a merchant seaman, during World War Two. It lay behind a fireplace in their home in Inberbervie for more than 70 years and has recently been discovered.

The wartime letter from wife to sailor found behind my fireplace

The closure of Grangemouth's refinery is a warning sign about what may happen to other parts of the oil and gas industry (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

Pragmatism is key to net zero and saving North Sea energy sector Scotsman comment

SNP warned of 'catastrophic consequences' if Rosebank oil plan shelved

Hundreds of brave souls took part in the traditional May Day dip in St Andrews.

St Andrews May Day Dip 2025: 13 pictures of swimmers taking the plunge

Stone tools were found in the north of Skye, in the area around Uig (pictured), and have been dated to around 11,000 to 11,500 years old. PIC: DavideGorla/Flickr/CC.

Scottish island reveals 11,000- year-old traces of earliest settlers

Leif Larsen - known as "Shetlands Larsen" - the most famous Norweigian sailor who operated the Shetland Bus escape route during the war - is pictured here (left) with comrades Severin Roald and Mickey Fiveldal, who helped to run soliders, spies and supplies between Scotland and Nazi-occupied Norway during World War Two. Their lifesaving voyages across the North Sea are due to be recreated as part of the 80th anniversary of VE Day next month. PIC: Sunnmøre museum.

VE Day: Flotilla to cross North Sea in honour of 'Shetland Bus' heroes

Climate Change and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband speaks at the Future of Energy Security Summit, hosted by the International Energy Agency and UK Government in London (Picture: Justin Tallis)

Net-zero firms are growing nine times faster than the rest Chris Skidmore

The MPs raised concerns for workers in the North Sea

Fate of North Sea workers 'hangs in the balance'

Surfers harness wave power in their own way at Coldingham Bay (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

UK is wave energy world leader, but Labour risks blowing £260bn chance Ian Crossland

Wood Group, the Aberdeen-headquartered FTSE-250 energy and engineering services business, employs more than 35,000 people globally and is involved in a wide range of projects.

New Wood Group bid values historic Scottish firm at £242m, down from over £1.5bn

Ben Starr poses in the winners room with the Debut Game Award for 'Balatro' during the BAFTA Games Awards 2025.

All of the 2025 Bafta Games Awards winners, in pictures

Rescuers saved 36 people from both ships, with one sailor from the Solong – named as Filipino national Mark Angelo Pernia, 38 – missing presumed dead

Legal action launched over North Sea container ship collision

Helping the North Sea transition to a "renewables powerhouse" should be a "national mission" for the UK, ministers in both Edinburgh and London have been told

Future of the North Sea should be ‘national mission’

The stricken container ship, the Solong, which was involved in a collision with a tanker in the North Sea, is towed in to the port of Aberdeen

In pictures: Container ship Solong towed into Scottish port

Energy Security Ed Miliband, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar at the Port of Greenock

Anas Sarwar raises potential split with UK Labour over oil future

Tug boats shadow the Solong container ship as it drifts in the Humber Estuary, off the coast of East Yorkshire, following the collision with the MV Stena Immaculate oil tanker

Ship severely damaged in North Sea collision to be towed to Scotland

An oil rig in the North Sea

North Sea 'could produce half all UK oil and gas in run up to 2050'

Wood Group, the Aberdeen-headquartered FTSE-250 energy and engineering services business, employs more than 35,000 people globally and is involved in a wide range of projects.

Takeover deadline extended for firm employing thousands of North Sea workers

Fergus Ewing MSP

Ewing will not stand for SNP in 2026 - but may run as an independent

Jake Landman, Partner and tax disputes specialist, Pinsent Masons

New tax plans for oil and gas sector are in the pipeline

John Swinney, left, speaks to Mark Simmers, chief executive of biorefinery Celtic Renewables, during a visit to the Grangemouth plant (Picture: WPA pool)

Grangemouth is a vital test case for Scotland's oil and gas industry Scotsman comment

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves and Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband during a meeting of the National Wealth Fund Taskforce in 11 Downing Street. PIC: Justin Tallis/PA Wire

Ed Miliband reveals deadline for Scotland's carbon capture approval

Hunting has two sites in Aberdeenshire, at Fordoun and Badentoy, near Portlethen, pictured. Picture by Michal Wachucik/Abermedia

Aberdeen job fears as engineering group employing 150 battles market decline

The MV Stena Immaculate oil tanker at anchor in the Humber Estuary off the coast of East Yorkshire following a collision with the Solong container ship

‘Heroic’ crew of North Sea crash ship triggered fire-fighting system

The Solong container ship drifts in the Humber Estuary, off the coast of East Yorkshire following a collision with the MV Stena Immaculate oil tanker.

Solong cargo ship captain revealed as Russian national

Saltmoore is a woodland haven near Whitby

We took our four-legged friend to Whitby for a posh hotel break

The Stena Immaculate

Explainer North Sea oil tanker collision - what we know so far

Expected fate of Solong cargo ship in North Sea collision confirmed

Smoke billowing from the stricken tanker in the North Sea

Cargo ship travelling from Scottish port hits oil tanker in North Sea

An oil rig is towed by tugboats off the coast of Hartlepool on its way to be decommissioned (Picture: Scott Heppell)

Why this may be wrong time to push North Sea oil industry off a cliff Christine Jardine

There is a drive to reskill North Sea oil and gas workers to undertake renewables work.

Labour's North Sea plan to create new energy jobs despite oil decline

Seagrass is the world’s only flowering plant capable of living in seawater and an incredible ally in the fight against climate change (Picture: Pascal Pochard-Casabianca)

Seagrass is one of nature's genuine superheroes, but it needs our help Dr Lyndsey Dodds

Aberlady Bay

The Leddie to host it's first-ever wellness retreat

Campaigners take part in a Stop Rosebank emergency protest outside the UK government building in Edinburgh. PIC: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Exclusive Rosebank approval poised to open floodgates to 13 North Sea projects

Harry Dwyer has sailed all around the UK, including Land's End in Cornwall (Picture: RDImages/Epics)

How Harry Dwyer’s sailing trip around UK has revealed best of Britain Stephen Jardine

Wood Group, the Aberdeen-headquartered FTSE-250 energy and engineering services business, employs more than 35,000 people globally and is involved in a wide range of projects.

Wood Group: Shares slide at heavyweight employing 6,000 UK and North Sea workers

Chancellor Rachel Reeves. PIC: Ian Forsyth/PA Wire

Reeves warned over 'de-industrialisation' if Acorn funding cut

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