Oil, the North Sea and Scottish independence: Grangemouth – the game changer
This is the eighth and last of 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...
View ArticleA bayful of glorious and expensive hardware in Oban
Working on Mull today, it was impossible not to notice how much expensive marine hardware was anchored in Oban Bay.Struan and Cameron Smith’s Coastal Connections service was preparing to ship two SSE...
View ArticleGrangemouth importing cheap shales gives insight into North Sea production
The news yesterday, 17th July, of the UK Government’s £230 million loan to owner, Ineos, for the Grangemouth Refinery to build a gigantic ethane storage tank to support its planned import of cheap...
View ArticleNorth Sea oil & gas outlook
The North Sea oil and gas industry is facing job losses in the upstream side of operations, with Chevron and Shell having recently announced the cutting of 475 largely onshore jobs in Aberdeen, 250...
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