Tag: UK North Sea standards

• Thursday, May 29th 2025 - 10:11 UTC

  Trump tells UK to get rid of unsightly windmills and open North Sea to modern drilling

  

  President Donald Trump on Truth Social has strongly criticized UK’s energy policy of pursuing renewables and further taxing North Sea oil and gas operators. In a piece published in OilPrice he suggests getting rid of “costly and unsightly windmills”.

• Thursday, November 6th 2014 - 21:50 UTC

  Falklands oil industry regulated by UK North Sea standards, one of the highest in the world

  

  The elected government of the Falkland Islands has strongly refuted remarks by Argentine official 'Malvinas Secretary' Daniel Filmus, published in The Guardian, in which he states that hydrocarbons activities in the Falklands are environmentally reckless, and describes Filmus words as “yet another example of the Argentine's government futile efforts to damage the Falklands economy”