Best Startup Scotland
At Best Startup Scotland we track over 100,000 Scottish startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 20 Oil and Gas companies in Edinburgh. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Oil and Gas Companies & Startups (Edinburgh)
Pyreos
Pyreos develops and supplies a specialised infra-red sensor platform.
Founder(s): Jeff Wright
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Food and Beverage, Hardware, Oil and Gas, Sensor
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Wood MacKenzie
Wood Mackenzie is a research and consultancy business for the energy, chemicals, metals, and mining industries.
Founder(s): Morten Keller
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Consulting, Energy, Market Research, Oil and Gas
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Cognitive Geology
A specialist software provider for the oil industry
Founder(s): Gerry O’Neill, Luke Johnson
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Oil and Gas, Software
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LUX Assure
LUX Assure specializes in delivering robust, highly sensitive, and simple to use chemical monitoring technologies.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Chemical, Energy, Oil and Gas
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Petroleum Experts (Petex)
Petroleum Experts (Petex) is a petroleum engineering and structural geology company.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Energy, Oil and Gas
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SeeByte
SeeByte provides clients in the Military and Oil and Gas sectors with the most advanced software.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Oil and Gas, Software
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Cairn Energy
Cairn Energy plc is an independent Scottish oil and gas exploration and production company.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Energy, Oil and Gas
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MTEM Limited
MTEM provides land and marine surveys to oil companies and develops electromagnetic methods to detect sub-sea and underground hydrocarbons.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Energy Management, Market Research, Oil and Gas
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JDR Cable Systems
JDR Cable Systems is a provider of technology connecting the global offshore energy industry.
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Location: Juniper Green, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Energy, Oil and Gas
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EnergySys
EnergySys aim to be the leading provider of cloud apps for every single oil and gas company.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Energy, Information Technology, Oil and Gas, Software
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Subsurface Global
Subsurface Global is a contracting and recruitment company.
Founder(s): Richard Madden
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Oil and Gas, Recruiting
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Advanced Downhole Petrophysics
Advanced Downhole Petrophysics delivering & developing formation evaluation solution for Oil & Gas sector, improving permeability data.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Geospatial, Oil and Gas
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Belltree Limited
Belltree is an Oil and gas consultancy having experience in supplying fully integrated upstream consultancy services to clients worldwide.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Consulting, Energy, Oil and Gas
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Epistemy
Epistemy is start up company looking to revolutionise assisted history matching and uncertainty quantification in the oil industry.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Consumer Software, Machine Learning, Oil and Gas, Software
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Abbott Risk Consulting
Abbott Risk Consulting is an international reputation for safety, engineering, and risk management.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Oil and Gas, Risk Management
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Bowleven plc
Bowleven plc is an oil and gas company.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Oil and Gas
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Hydrafact
Hydrafact is recognised as an expert in flow assurance evaluation and experimental testing services and the world’s leading authority.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Energy, Information Technology, Oil and Gas
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Artificial Lift Performance
Artificial Lift Performance (ALP) is a consulting and software company solve oil production and artificial lift problems .
Founder(s): Sandy Williams
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Consulting, Oil and Gas, Software
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Petroc Technologies
Petroc Technologies specialises in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), hydrocarbon recovery technologies, and geological storage of carbon dioxide.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Energy, Information Technology, Oil and Gas
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Bowleven New Ventures Ltd.
Bowleven New Ventures Ltd. explores, appraises, and develops oil and gas.
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Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Industries: Oil and Gas
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