Enough green energy could be generated to exceed the entire global electricity demand by….. erecting wind turbines on all the useable offshore sites which are within 40 miles of the coast and in water no deeper than 60 metres. That’s it. That’s all it would take. The revelation comes from the International Energy Agency which…

‘Unprecedented’. That’s how the BBC described the climate change lawsuit against Exxon Mobil. But will it fall at the first hurdle or does this have legs? New York State has accused the American oil giant of misleading investors about the impact of climate change to its bottom line. But Exxon says the claims are ‘baseless’…

Time for something a bit different. We decided to have a chat with two freelancers at different stages of their careers to get their thoughts on the industry and freelancing offshore. Daniel Gobbitt, a Party Chief and Senior Surveyor with extensive freelance experience and Simon Soryal, who has been working as a freelance Geophysicist for…

I read something recently which really struck me and, as it’s World Mental Health Day today, I thought I’d share. It was an interview with Steve Beedie, the wellbeing campaigner we’ve talked about before. He said: “You will never hear of someone stopping the job because of their mental health. You’ll stop the job because…

In the last two years the cost of offshore wind has plummeted by almost a third. Now a new range of offshore farms will generate power at a lower cost to burning coal and won’t – for the first time – need a penny in subsidies. To fully grasp the significance of this – take…

Without a doubt, the O&G industry finds itself between a rock and a hard place. When asked what it can do to contribute to net-zero emissions by 2035, it did what it does best and proposed drilling the heck outta that rock. But unsurprisingly on the other side came a wave of criticism. The BBC…

Is there a more satisfying string of words than: “The tests we conducted proved that it works”? Perhaps it depends on the context but, in the potential future of deep wind power generation being airborne, I think not. You see, the Alphabet-subsidiary Makani – with support from Shell – has successfully completed a week-long trial…