Energy Voice

Energy Voice is a news platform available in both digital and print formats that dives deep into the key issues surrounding oil, gas, power, and the transition to renewable energy for a worldwide audience. It provides valuable insights to companies and organizations about the geopolitical, economic, and financial dynamics that shape current market trends, along with predictions for future developments. With a broad global reach, the digital platform is accessed by over 250,000 users each month across more than 100 countries. It delivers timely news from major energy markets, featuring a variety of columnists, comprehensive market research, thoughtful analysis, exclusive video content, and the latest industry updates all in one convenient location. Energy Voice is recognized for breaking exclusive stories with prominent figures in the industry, including top executives from Shell, BP, Equinor, and Baker Hughes. In addition, Energy Voice has been included in the UK’s top-selling regional daily newspaper, The Press and Journal, which has been providing news since 1747. For over 18 years, the print version of Energy Voice has been distributed alongside The Press and Journal in northeast Scotland and at many of the industry's largest international events.

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EnQuest calls for scrapping windfall tax as commodity prices drop

1 week ago | energyvoice.com | Michael Behr

EnQuest has warned that falling commodity prices have increased pressure on the UK government to scrap the windfall tax on energy company profits. An operations update from the company said that it will make a payment of around $100 million under the Energy Profits Levy in June 2025. It added that the majority of the group’s tax payments will be made in the first half of 2025.
Wood receives contact for UAE methanol plant

1 week ago | energyvoice.com | Michael Behr

Wood has secured a contract from Emirati chemicals company TA’ZIZ to provide project management consultancy (PMC) to develop the UAE’s first methanol production facility. Construction of the site in Al Ruwais Industrial City, Abu Dhabi is expected to be completed by 2028. Once finished, the plant will be one of the largest methanol plants in the world, producing 1.8 million tonnes per year.
Why Nexos' Ashley Cruickshank chose the North Sea over golf

1 week ago | energyvoice.com | Ryan Duff

Golf and oil and gas are two things the north-east of Scotland has in spades, and when it came time to choose a career, Nexos’ Ashley Cruickshank opted for a life in the North Sea over tending fairways. Following in his grandfather’s footsteps, the now Construction and Facilities Team Lead (CFTL) chose an apprenticeship as a welder/ plater despite offers to work as a greenkeeper. He has been seconded to EnQuest on its Thistle Alpha Platform and now leads a team of over 40 people.
UK losing essential net zero supply chain to foreign projects

1 week ago | energyvoice.com | Erikka Askeland

The UK is losing the skills and supply chain required to deliver its net zero targets, with a growing share of energy sector jobs, investment and innovation shifting abroad. A survey of more than 100 firms active in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) reveals that two-thirds expect to increase headcount overseas in the next five years as work in renewable projects “stagnates”.
Penspen to open new Aberdeen office

1 week ago | energyvoice.com | Michael Behr

UK energy consultancy Penspen will open a new office in Aberdeen after moving from its long-standing base at Queen’s Gardens. The company will site its new north east base at the Balmoral Business Park in Altens three miles south of the city centre. In addition to providing a home for the company’s 200 specialist engineers, it will support Penspen’s pipeline of energy security and energy transition projects while also creating space for future expansion.
Wood brings in £1.4bn Asia Pacific contract haul

1 week ago | energyvoice.com | Michael Behr

Aberdeen-based Wood has secured A$3 billion (£1.4bn) of contract awards across Asia Pacific in the past 12 months, making for a record-breaking year for the company in the region. Wood received new contracts along with extensions and renewals to advise, design, execute and operate major energy and mining projects and infrastructure across Australia, Brunei, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Timor Leste and the Philippines.
Trump's calls for North Sea drilling not a 'surprise', says Swinney

1 week ago | energyvoice.com | Michael Behr

John Swinney has said there is no “surprise” in Donald Trump’s calls for oil drilling in the North Sea to be incentivised, insisting that his government is “absolutely committed” to its net zero targets. Scotland’s first minister was speaking after the US President claimed that stopping “unsightly windmills” and drilling oil instead would bring the UK’s energy costs “way down”.
Power Moves: New appointments at DESNZ and more

2 weeks ago | energyvoice.com | Michael Behr

George Dibb has been seconded to the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) as principal policy advisor for industrial strategy as the government prepares to detail its plans for the economic growth. Dibb currently serves as associate director for economic policy and head of the Centre for Economic Justice at IPPR. He is responsible for leading and overseeing IPPR’s work on UK economic policy and is based in the Westminster office. His secondment to DESNZ will last for 12-month.
Trump urges Starmer to back North Sea and Aberdeen

2 weeks ago | energyvoice.com | Erikka Askeland

President Donald Trump has said there is North Sea oil to last 100 years with the Granite City as its hub. A message posted on his site Truth Social also took aim at “unsightly windmills” – long a bugbear for Trump since he opposed the development of the Aberdeen Bay wind farm which can be seen from his golf course on the Menie Estate. The US president urged Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government to support “modernised drilling” in the North Sea which would cut the cost of energy.
Net Zero Teesside subsidy challenge quashed after climate case lost

2 weeks ago | energyvoice.com | Jessica Mills Davies

A legal battle against the Net Zero Teesside (NZT) gas-fired power generation and carbon capture and storage project in the north-east of England was quashed in the appeal courts this week. Environmental consultant Andrew Boswell has lost his climate case against the project and its developers BP and Equinor in the Court of Appeal at the Royal Courts of Justice.