The Net Zero U-Turn That Made Sense
Net Zero by 2050: Ambition is Not a Strategy In June 2019, in the final days of her premiership, Theresa […]
The UK’s Energy Story Is Bigger Than the Electricity Headlines
I’ve spent years working inside the energy sector. Watching projects get announced, delayed, restructured, and sometimes quietly cancelled. And in
GB Energy: A Symbolic Gesture, Not a Structural Solution
300 Jobs, 113,000 Losses: Aberdeen Deserves Better Math Than This Pause for a second. This number might surprise you: 300.
If We Don’t Produce It Here, We’ll Import It at a Higher Carbon Cost
Here’s a fact that doesn’t get repeated enough: shutting down UK production doesn’t reduce UK demand. Hydrocarbons still supply around
BP exiting the UK North Sea doesn’t mean the North Sea is dead
I’ve seen a few posts on LinkedIn lately claiming that bp exiting the UK North Sea means North Sea drilling
The People Leaving the North Sea Aren’t Going to Wind Farms.
The 43rd survey data from the Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce (Spring 2026) should be a wake-up call. UK
The North Sea Basin Still Has a Lot To Give
The UKCS is mature. That’s a fact, not an argument. But a basin holding between 9 and 15 billion barrels of recoverable resource isn’t finished, it’s waiting for the right conditions to keep giving.
The windfall tax is killing the North Sea. End it now, not in 2030
By the time the UK government gets around to replacing the Energy Profits Levy (EPL) in 2030, there may not
The North Sea Has More to Give Than We’re Giving It Credit For
Every time the UK Continental Shelf comes up in conversation, someone reaches for the word “mature.” It’s usually said with