Onshore work on the world’s biggest offshore wind project – Dogger Bank – is underway on the Yorkshire coast. It’s a remarkable feat, capable of powering 4.5m homes once complete – that’s 5% of the electricity demand in the UK. The joint venture between SSE Renewables and Equinor is planned to install capacity of 3.6GW…

As we start a new decade, we caught up with Precise founder Peter Thompson and find out what he’s made of the last 12 months, what to look forward to in 2020 and what you can do to ensure you’re ready for it. “It’s fair to say 2019’s been an odd year – we expected…

The latest Opec+ meeting saw Saudi Arabia spearhead a deal that will lead to some of the industry’s biggest output cuts in a decade, as it tries to prevent a glut and subsequent price hit. The ‘Deceleration of Cooperation’ comes ahead of next year’s expected increases in production from countries, notably the US. As Amrita…

“The summary findings are bleak,” it says. “Countries collectively failed to stop the growth in global greenhouse gas emissions, meaning that deeper and faster cuts are now required.” There’s no nice way to say it – we’re just not doing enough to tackle carbon emissions. The UN Environment Programme is blunt, and critical. It warns…

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…