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Oil, the North Sea and Scottish independence: The Wood Report
This is the fourth in a series of researched articles on the oil and gas industry, the situation in the North Sea and the relation of this overall picture to a potentially independent Scotland.We are...
View ArticleWrong issue highlighted as ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ indy campaigns use new North Sea...
Professor Alexander Kemp and Linda Stephen are arguably the most authoritative academic experts on the North Sea oil and gas industry, with a hefty series of research papers to their credit.Professor...
View ArticleNorth Sea caught in a nutcracker
There is a massive power game going on in the worldwide oil industry, between OPEC and the USA – a nutcracker of a game in which the pressure on the North Sea is no more than collateral damage.The game...
View ArticleTally of North Sea jobs lost to date
Today’s announcement by drillers KCA Deutag that they are looking to cut 230 jobs in their Aberdeen and North Sea from a total of 500 jobs to go worldwide.The breakdown of the 230 jobs to go will be...
View ArticleNorth Sea industry welcomes supportive budget with some surprises
The North Sea oil and gas industry has strongly welcomed today’s budgetary provisions to support the industry and the UK Continental Shelf basin through the deeply negative impact of the fall in the...
View ArticleUKOG Major oil discovery in south of England
UK Oil & Gas has announced a major oil find in the south of England, after analysing the results of exploration drilling at Horse Hill in the Weald Basin near Gatwick airport and north of Brighton....
View ArticleONE [tactical] VOTE for the Union in Scotland and England: JUST DO IT
Across the entire United Kingdom, this is the last battle for the Union.This side of the border, it’s also another battle in the war for Scotland – and a critical one.There are only two votes to...
View ArticleThe dash from full fiscal autonomy and the biteback of the ‘no detriment’...
The SNP Scottish Government has spent the time since indyref 1 repeatedly calling for ‘full fiscal autonomy’. This has virtually been their stated price for staying in the United Kingdom – until...
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