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North Sea Oil

Type: Company

Name: North Sea Oil

First reported 46 mins ago - Updated 7 mins ago - 2 reports

Office For National Statistics

UK's return to growth underlined

The dominant services sector helped the economy expand in the first three months of the yearThe UK's return to growth has been underlined as revised figures confirmed the dominant services sector helped the economy expand by 0.3% in the first three months ... [Published MSN UK - 7 mins ago]

Entities: Chris Leslie, North Sea Oil, Office For National Statistics, United Kingdom

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

North Sea oil explorer buys rival

Oil explorer Parkmead is to increase its production by 400% with the acquisition of Lochard Energy for £14.5m.The deal gives Parkmead a 10% stake in the Athena field in the North Sea.Parkmead's executive chairman, Tom Cross, described the deal as the ... [Published BBC - 1 hour ago]

Entities: North Sea Oil, Tom Cross, North Sea, Lochard Energy Group PLC

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Oil funds

Alex Salmond’s all-too-familiar refrain that we will be rich when separate indeed rests as usual on all too many unquantifiable assertions (your report, 22 May). Our own government’s GERS and balance sheet data continue to show that we have a multi-billion-pound ... [Published The Scotsman - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Joe Darby, Dingwall (Scotland, United Kingdom), William Bennett, Denis Healey

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Bill Jamieson: Get real about our debt problems

The independence debate has avoided the subject of our economy – but it must be confronted, writes Bill Jamieson Over the past few days I have had a strange and discomforting sense of living in a parallel universe. There is this Scottish world, its contours ... [Published The Scotsman - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Stephen King, Scotland, Stagnation

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

North Sea Oil Revenue Is Central to Debate about Our Economic Future

I was born 15 years after the SNP's breakthrough election of 1974, where it achieved 30.4% of the Scottish vote. But I still know all about the slogan: "It's Scotland's oil". It captures the faith that a small country can be a credible economic power, ... [Published HighBeam Research - 16 hours ago]

Entities: North Sea Oil, Resonance, Elections

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 2 reports

International Monetary Fund

Is Austerity Finally Bringing Growth to Britain?

After warning Great Britain of dire circumstances last year if it continued austerity, the International Monetary Fund has rolled back the rhetoric this time, omitting its request that the British government slow its budget contraction further.Last fall, ... [Published Wall St. Cheat Sheet - 17 hours ago]

Entities: International Monetary Fund, United Kingdom, UK Government, Property

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 reports

Tracker

TOPICAL QUESTION TIME14.05.13: North Sea oil and gas productionRhoda Grant (Highlands and Islands) (Lab) asked the Scottish Government whether it considered that North Sea oil and gas production will continue for the rest of the century.The Minister for ... [Published Holyrood - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Scotland, Fergus Ewing, North Sea Oil, Rhoda Grant

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

The price of oil

At last the former chancellor, Denis Healey (your report,  20 May), has admitted that successive Labour and Tory governments lied to the Scottish electorate about the value of the oil wealth in Scottish waters in order to undermine support for independence. ... [Published The Scotsman - May 22 2013]

Entities: James Duncan, Denis Healey, North Sea Oil

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Survey reveals employee concerns over scrapping of HSE offshore division

A survey of 5000 North Sea oil and gas workers has found that 75% believe the decision to scrap the Health and Safety Executive’s offshore division will undermine offshore safety.The survey, released by OilandGasPeople.com, also found 62% were worried ... [Published Energy Global - May 22 2013]

Entities: Piper Alpha, Workers, Disaster, Cormorant

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 3 reports

Scottish independence: it’s still (almost) all about oil.

The Scottish government published a paper on the national economy today that, according to Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon, makes the case for independence. You can read the pamphlet here or the BBC’s summary of it here . Most of it was relatively ... [Published The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion ... - May 21 2013]

Entities: Scotland, Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon, Taxes

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Oh buoy, are we buoyant to receive 3,000th vessel!

A major milestone has been celebrated at a vital component of the UK's oil refining capability.Tetney Monobuoy, in the Humber Estuary, has welcomed its 3,000th vessel, more than 42 years after the Conoco Dubai first discharged crude oil in January 19 ... [Published Scunthorpe Telegraph - May 21 2013]

Entities: Refinery, North Sea Oil, Vessel, ConocoPhillips Company, Estuary

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Anger at BBC Scotland virtual news blackout of Healey North Sea Oil admission

General The admission from the Labour peer emerged conducted by the editor of Holyrood Magazine, Mandy Rhodes, in which the senior Labour politician who was Chancellor from 1974 to 1979 was asked about the North Sea Oil issue in the run-up to the 1979 ... [Published NewsnetScotland.com - May 21 2013]

Entities: BBC Scotland, Scotland, North Sea Oil

Quotes

"This is now the slowest recovery for over 100 years with just 1.1% growth since the 2010 spending review compared to the 6% forecast at the time. On jobs, growth, living standards and the deficit this Government's economic policies have badly failed."

UK's return to growth underlined [Published MSN UK - 7 mins ago]

The chairman of Lochard, Clive Carver, said: "The Lochard directors believe Parkmead is of a size and quality that will enable it to continue to source and fund exciting exploration prospects and development opportunities at a time when obtaining funding for smaller exploration companies remains difficult."

North Sea oil explorer buys rival [Published BBC - 1 hour ago]

"This is the most exciting and important deal for Parkmead to date,” said Clive Carver, Parkmead chairman. "

Parkmead agrees £14.5mln Lochard Energy takeover [Published Proactiveinvestors United Kingdom website - 2 hours ago]

It has been a long process, starting with the 2003 Energy White Paper, which declared that nuclear's "current economics make it an unattractive option for new, carbon-free generating capacity"

The UK will be our international nuclear hub [Published Power Engineering International - 6 hours ago]

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Parkmead agrees £14.5mln Lochard Energy takeover [Published Proactiveinvestors United Kingdom website - 2 hours ago] Growing North Sea oil firm Parkmead ( LON:PMG ) has agreed a £14.5mln deal to takeover Lochard Energy ( LON:LHD ). The all-paper deal will give Parkmead a 10% stake in the Ithaca Energy operated Athena oil field, which began production last year ...
Making Waste Wood Into Fuel [Published New Energy and Fuel - 3 hours ago] Norwegian senior scientist Øyvind Skreiberg is transforming the chopped-off branches and tops of felled spruce trees into a fine powder that is then pressed into high-energy pellets. The transformation is made using a process called torrefaction, ...
Is Austerity Finally Bringing Growth to Britain? [Published Wall St. Cheat Sheet - 17 hours ago] After warning Great Britain of dire circumstances last year if it continued austerity, the International Monetary Fund has rolled back the rhetoric this time, omitting its request that the British government slow its budget contraction further.Last fall, ...
Is Austerity Finally Bringing Growth to Britain? [Published Wall St. Cheat Sheet - 17 hours ago] After warning Great Britain of dire circumstances last year if it continued austerity, the International Monetary Fund has rolled back the rhetoric this time, omitting its request that the British government slow its budget contraction further. Last ...
Scottish independence: it’s still (almost) all ... [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - May 21 2013] The Scottish government published a paper on the national economy today that, according to Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon, makes the case for independence. You can read the pamphlet here or the BBC’s summary of it here . Most of it was relatively ...

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Scottish independence could turn it green [Published Reuters Video: Business - Dec 28 2012]
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Press Releases

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OPUS HAS AMERICAN DREAM AS IT SEEKS FURTHER GROWTH [Published CisionWire - English - Apr 11 2013]