The Government is currently on the hook for about £30 billion in abandonment costs. The longer we can keep platforms functioning the better. Also Oil and Gas was not privatised - with the exception o… (View Post)

No, it's just proof that Trump doesn't have a fecking clue what he is doing. Now the Israelis, they know what they are doing. Bomb Iran back to the Stone Age and keep them there. (View Post)

We don't have any oil rigs twiddling their thumbs. Indeed rig rates have gone through the roof. This is what people don't seem to understand. The oil industry is practially dead in the UK b… (View Post)

Sorry but this is rubbish. The reason we have not been drilling in the North Sea has been entirely governmental. A combination of very high taxes which are continually changing and a ban on explorati… (View Post)

Something a lot of geologists in the business have been saying for the last 40 years or more. In spite of my well known scorn about the AGW stuff I still don't think we should be burning hydroca… (View Post)