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Video: First Minister launches taskforce to help oil and gas sector The First Minister spoke to Energy Voice on her first to Aberdeen since becoming leader of the SNP party. To help the industry, the Scottish Government is setting up an energy jobs taskforce

	BP workers to find out jobs future tomorrow BP workers will tomorrow find out if cuts are to affect their jobs. The energy giant is soon expected to share findings of an exercise aimed at saving money

	Premier Oil to cut jobs as it looks to rein in costs Premier Oil said it expects to book a $300million impairment charge due to the plunge in oil prices. The company plans to cut jobs as well as rein in investments costs

	Helicopter firm's profits take off New contracts for the oil and gas industry and also search and rescue (SAR) operations helped spur on Bristow Helicopters to a massive increase in profits

	Fracking powers for Holyrood Powers over fracking for shale gas are poised to become the first of the Smith Commission proposals to be devolved to Holyrood. Labour had insisted that there was no need to wait until after May’s general election to give MSPs extended responsibilities over fracking

	Sturgeon to attend summit Nicola Sturgeon has accepted Aberdeen City Council’s invitation to an emergency oil summit. The first minister revealed she was ready to take part as she prepared to visit the city today as part of efforts to help the oil industry with plummeting prices

	Five Ways To Play The Oil Price Plunge The collapse of the oil price has created losers and winners, and like every major movement in a commodity sector, the trick for investors is figuring out which side of the trade to be on

	Oil declines for fourth day as global surplus seen persisting Oil fell for a fourth day, extending losses from the lowest close in more than five and half years as the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait predicted a global supply glut will persist to at least the second half of 2015

	Opinion: Why Americans hate fracking but love cheap gasoline During the holidays, a friend was driving home and said she spotted a fracking well soon after she crossed into Texas. She wasn’t happy about it

	Ministers pledge to "pull together" to help North Sea UK and Scottish ministers have pledged to put their differences aside and “pull together" to help save North Sea oil and gas jobs. Representatives from the administrations at Westminster and Holyrood held crunch talks with key figures from the offshore sector in London yesterday

	CNR slashes spending plan for this year as oil prices keep falling North Sea oil firm Canadian Natural Resources (CNR) slashed its spending plan for 2015 yesterday as the price of crude continued to fall. Calgary-based CNR, whose operations also cover North America and Africa, said it was cutting its budget for this year by £1

	Cairn Energy axes 90 jobs A job cull at Cairn Energy has seen about two-fifths of staff and contractors axed, the Scottish oil explorer revealed yesterday. About 90 people have gone, although most chose to take voluntary redundancy

	Oil price plunge is good for us, investment trust boss says Falling crude prices are a “shot in the arm” for many global economies, an investment trust chief said yesterday. Andrew Bell, chief executive of the Chelmsford-based Witan Investment Trust was among a string of bosses delivering their views on the oil price plunge on behalf of a group representing UK investment trusts responsible for assets worth about £122billion

	Demand for protection against Oil at $40 a barrel reaches record Open interest, or the amount of contracts outstanding, for March $40 puts on West Texas Intermediate crude climbed to 22,575. The price of the options reached 79 cents a barrel today, up from 1 cent in November

	Image: Total snaps heavy waves on North Sea production platform Oil giant Total has posted images of huge waves hitting one of its production platforms in the North Sea. The French company captured the photographs from the K6CC platform in waters off the Netherlands