The UK government's seizure of British Steel from Chinese company Jingye on national security grounds suggests extending ...

North Sea production has fallen to the lowest level on record, leaving the UK importing about half the oil and gas that it needs. Oil industry body, Offshore Energies UK (OEUK), said that under ...

Helping the North Sea transition to a “renewables powerhouse” should be a “national mission” for the UK, ministers in both Edinburgh and London have been told. The chairman of the North Sea Transition ...

The UK’s North Sea oil and gas regulator raised its forecasts for investment and production in the coming years after 2024 figures were higher than expected. The North Sea Transition Authority ...

Saltburn-by-the-Sea, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, has been named the UK's most beautiful seaside town - and it's easy to ...

The development of new oil and natural gas resources in the UK isn’t viable due to high taxes, according to Ineos Group. “Tax rates are so punitive that the UK is uninvestable,” Brian ...

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Scientists have warned that North Sea cod stocks are now so low that there ... across the board to cover all commercial species.' UK Fisheries Minister Elliot Morley said: 'Taken together with ...

Report calls for replacing windfall tax with a more proportional system and creating a minister-led North Sea Transition Committee ...

Vladimir Motin, the Russian captain of the MV Solong cargo ship, has appeared at court over the death of a sailor in the ...

Industry body Offshore Energies UK says the North Sea could produce half of all oil and gas in run up to 2050.