From the chairman of the board to the worker on the rig, veterans of the United States military are finding their experience befits a career in the oil and gas industry. At Dominion Resources Inc., president and CEO Thomas Farrell II was born on an Army base into a family [...]

After months of what looked like empty rhetoric, the UK government is finally getting its act together and will announce a £1.1 billion investment lottery for fibre and 5G. There has been a tonne of noise recently coming from the government and top dudes in the industry lamenting the UK’s allegedly ‘crap’ [...]

Subsea Technology & Rentals Ltd (STR); global specialists in the design, manufacture and rental of advanced subsea technology for the offshore energy industry has announced an agreement with Guidance Marine to supply their range of position reference sensors for Dynamic Positioning (DP). Guidance Marine is a leading global developer and [...]

Nov 21 (Reuters) - Pipeline companies Sunoco Logistics Partners LP and Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), both of which are controlled by general partner Energy Transfer Equity LP, said on Monday they would combine in a corporate consolidation to cut borrowing and operating costs. ETP is the main company behind the [...]

BT Group’s (LON:BT.A) chief executive has warned that indecision over the future of the company’s network division Openreach is costing the UK economy, The Telegraph has reported. In a separate development, the Financial Times has revealed that the former telecoms monopoly has the second-worst funded pension scheme in the world. [...]

LONDON/BAGHDAD, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Iraq would have to compensate international oil companies for limits placed on their production, according to industry sources and documents seen by Reuters, further reducing the prospect it will join any OPEC deal to curb the group's output. The compensation - stipulated in contracts - [...]

ALGIERS, Nov 16 (Reuters) - A number of energy ministers from OPEC oil-producing countries are likely to meet informally in Doha on Friday to try to build consensus over decisions taken by the full group in September in Algiers, an Algerian energy source said. At the September meeting, OPEC agreed [...]

Fibre optic ISP TrueSpeed has hinted to Ofcom that its 150Mbps Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) broadband network, which is currently rolling out to parts of the Chew Valley in rural North East Somerset (England), could also be expanded into Devon, Wiltshire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire. The provider has already deployed into the village [...]

Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. Presidential Election will likely be good for European oil and gas firms that operate in the United States, according to media reaction across the Atlantic. However, the industry itself has begun calls for the President Elect to define a clear energy policy. European press [...]

Chevron North Sea Limited announced Monday that it has started production at the Alder field in the central North Sea, more than 40 years after it was first discovered. "First gas at Alder represents a significant milestone for Chevron and highlights our commitment to investing and developing resources in the U.K.,” said Greta [...]

UK ISP TalkTalk has written a letter to the CEO of the Government’s Broadband Delivery UK programme, Chris Townsend, which warns that “serious conflicts of interest” may exist if they continue to use research provided by Analysys Mason, an analyst firm that is also assisting BT in a number of [...]

A new report has revealed that the joint £6.5m Broadband Delivery UK and Isle of Wight Council project to expand the coverage of BT’s “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) network on the Isle of Wight (resides just off England’s central south coast) has come in under budget to the tune of £1.7m+. [...]