North Sea

Funded by industry and the Scottish Government, the education facility is designed to train and upskill both new entrants and career changers for jobs in the booming clean energy sector

BusinessGreen Editor’s Briefing: September 2025 part one

With clear, consistent policy, the UK can channel the skills of North Sea workers into the rapidly growing offshore wind, carbon capture and hydrogen sectors, writes Aldersgate Group's executive director Rachel Solomon Williams

The Conservative leader's pledge to 'get all of our gas out of the North Sea' appears designed more for the politics of opposition than the realities of government, as it crumbles under scrutiny, writes Eliot Whittington from the Cambridge Institute for...

The oil and gas industry is mounting a concerted lobbying push to convince the government to soften its pledge to end new drilling licenses - but can it really marry fossil fuel production and net zero goals?

The Conservative leader will this week promise to reinstate the policy of maximising oil and gas production in the North Sea - but simply ignoring climate risks and the global clean energy transition does not make them go away

Kemi Badenoch to ramp up attacks on Labour’s net zero plans with pledge to issue new wave of oil and gas drilling licenses for the North Sea

Industry welcomes proposal to expand existing oil and gas fields, but campaigners warn such reforms would breach Labour's manifesto pledge to end issuance of new licenses

A new analysis lays bare the open secret avoided by so many discussions on the future of the UK's energy industry: the overwhelming likelihood is there is not that much North Sea oil and gas left