Why the UK can’t get a grip of its energy crisis April 14, 2025 A months-long cost-of-living crisis, state bailouts of consumer energy bills, endless planning rows, judicial interventions and now the near-collapse of Britain’s only manufacturer of virgin steel all show different sides to the UK’s ongoing energy crisis. Its dependency on foreign imports, poor planning of infrastructure and lack of control over soaring bills means the extent [...]
UK government plans to end North Sea windfall tax March 5, 2025 British oil and gas drillers could face a new tax regime following the energy crisis, which pegs levies to fluctuations in global oil and gas prices. The mechanism is intended to replace the notorious “windfall tax” and was outlined in a consultation on the North Sea published on Wednesday. The consultation also seeks to unravel [...]
Cut taxes for BP and Shell to protect UK from Trump’s trade war, Rachel Reeves told February 6, 2025 Oil giants such as BP and Shell who operate in the North Sea should be given huge tax breaks to help protect the UK against Donald Trump’s burgeoning trade war, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been told. Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce is calling on the UK government to reduce the 78 per cent tax [...]
PMQs: Badenoch says businesses ‘abandoning North Sea’ due to Starmer February 5, 2025 Businesses are “abandoning the North Sea” because of Sir Keir Starmer’s decisions, Kemi Badenoch has claimed at PMQs, as he she criticised the “signal he is sending to investors”. Her comments came after a Scottish court ruled that green lighting the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields was unlawful, following a court battle brought [...]
Ex-BP boss says Labour is ‘ignoring’ UK’s energy needs November 12, 2024 The new government’s decision to divest from North Sea oil and set up a state-owned renewable energy company is the “last thing” it should be doing, the former chief executive of BP has said. Bob Dudley, who ran the British petrochemical giant BP for ten years, told City AM that energy secretary Ed Miliband was [...]
UK and EU energy giants call for post-Brexit North Sea ‘green power hub’ October 15, 2024 UK and EU energy firms are urging their governments to overhaul the post-Brexit trading set up in a bid to construct a North Sea “green power hub” and unlock investment. Some 20 top power firms and lobby groups have written an open letter to European and British energy ministers to urge them to prioritise a [...]
Enquest ‘disappointed’ with windfall tax plans as revenue dips September 5, 2024 North Sea energy firm Enquest has said it was “disappointed” with the ongoing application of the Energy Profit Energy as it reported falls in production and revenue. Enquest, which is one of the largest operators in the North Sea and is currently drilling the single largest oil field in the area, reported a 19.8 per [...]
Neo Energy slows down £900m North Sea project due to windfall tax September 2, 2024 One of the North Sea’s largest oil and gas project has been plunged into uncertainty after its operator announced it was slowing down investment in light of “fiscal and regulatory uncertainty”. Neo Energy had planned to start work on the £900m Buchan project – expected to produce a peak of 35,000 barrels of oil a [...]
Oil and gas windfall tax increase may cost economy £13bn, trade body warns September 2, 2024 The government's changes to the windfall tax will have a £13bn hit to the economy, the sector's industry body has claimed.
Labour’s North Sea windfall tax plans branded a ‘blunt response’ that will hammer businesses across the UK August 22, 2024 The government’s plans for North Sea oil and gas are a “blunt response” that could jeopardise hundreds of thousands of jobs not just in the energy sector, several of the industry’s leading figures have warned. In an open letter to the Treasury, over 40 companies with operations in the North Sea voiced their “grave concern” [...]