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Offshore workforce cut by 40% due to Covid-19.

Almost 40% of the North Sea workforce has been cut as operators attempt to wrestle with the growing coronavirus crisis.

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Trevor Stapleton, Oil and Gas UK’s HSE director, said more than 4,000 crew and staff have been stood down over the last few weeks as offshore firms look to move to a skeleton staff. The North Sea averaged …

March 27, 2020 - 6:53 am Crude Oil News, Energy News, International, Offshore
Source: Houston Chronicle

IEA plans to revise down oil demand forecasts due to virus

Houston Chronicle


The International Energy Agency plans to revise down its oil-demand forecasts next week because of the spreading coronavirus.

“I am going to announce it Monday morning in Paris,” IEA chief Fatih Birol told a Congressional hearing in Washington …