Allister Thomas
Europe Editor at Energy Voice
Senior Energy Advisor at True North, formerly Europe Editor at Energy Voice. Get in touch: [email protected]
Articles
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3 weeks ago |
energyvoice.com | Erikka Askeland |Ryan Duff |Dick Winchester |Allister Thomas
Grid & Retail The UK's £8.3 billion energy firm has announced plans to allocate £4 million to support community-owned energy projects in Scotland. ScotWind The boss of one of the UK's biggest energy investors has warned against implementing a policy that supporters claim will reduce energy prices for consumers.
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Oct 4, 2024 |
energyvoice.com | Allister Thomas |Ryan Duff
Google Marc Ellington and you’ll be met with a cacophony of pictures and articles of a grinning American folk singer, a friendship with (then) Prince Charles, and the saving and restoration of a 400-year-old castle in Aberdeenshire. What connects these seemingly disparate elements? Aside from the late Ellington’s huge character, it’s a love of North East Scotland and an unlikely yet lucrative career with the (then) burgeoning energy industry.
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Apr 11, 2024 |
energyvoice.com | Jeremy Cresswell |Allister Thomas
It’s so blindingly obvious, workers, communities and the environment are seriously threatened by industrial accidents. And those who choose oil & gas by and large know perfectly well that they are working in an industry that is both dangerous and environmentally discredited. The pay can be good by local standards and apparently worth the risk of living with bad bosses, unsafe working practices, a corporate hire and fire mentality and living conditions akin to the workhouse.
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Jan 19, 2024 |
energyvoice.com | Gail Anderson |Wood Mackenzie |Allister Thomas
Recent proposals by the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) on electrification of the UK North Sea could risk development of over 900 million barrels of oil equivalent and increase the UK’s reliance on higher intensity imports. It is proposed that fields onstream after 1 January 2030 must be fully electrified (host platforms must be electrified in the case of tie-backs). New fields onstream before 2030 must be “electrification ready”.
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Dec 21, 2023 |
eu1.hubs.ly | Clarissa Wright |Allister Thomas
Rosebank has been known as a complicated prospect to tap into many years – we speak to Professor Nicholas Schofield about the much-overlooked geology underlying this complexity. The West of Shetland has the UK’s largest undeveloped oil and gas field, Rosebank. After being discovered in 2004 many surprises lay ahead. Multiple companies changed their stakes in Rosebank over time.
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Bad news following Rachel Reeves' #budget24. Apache, operator of the Forties and Beryl fields, says it will cease all UK North Sea production by end of 2029. Blames windfall tax and new emissions regulations making UK investment uneconomic #APA #OOTT https://t.co/VG1R5ZSjlM
GB Energy confirmed for Aberdeen – great to see + it was the only choice, but questions remain: • How will it create 650k jobs by 2030? • How will it influence decisions effectively w/ just £8.3bn? • Oct Budget – windfall tax threat to jobs and investment - clarity needed
CfD results from the AR6 round are out. Green Volt, to become the world's largest floating wind farm off #Aberdeen, is among the winners. However, only 5GW of wind power awarded this round, so hitting 2030 Gov target of 50+ GW looks v challenging #OffshoreWind https://t.co/apfTwA3rvb
