The UK and would-be-independent Scotland are competing to pander to oil companies extracting what's left of oil in the North Sea.

I speculate that each of them wants the oil companies to help buy votes in the coming referendum about independence for Scotland. I think the question of Scottish independence from the UK is a side issue; what matters in Scotland, and everywhere else, is independence from corporate power. If I were a citizen of Scotland I'd probably vote for whichever side the oil companies don't support.