Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is heading to the Granite City today in a bid to drum up support for a critical by-election in Aberdeen South.
Badenoch told The Press and Journal voters in the constituency can turn the by-election into a "referendum on the future of the North Sea oil and gas industry".
She has billed the by-election as a two-horse race between Conservative candidate Douglas Lumsden and the SNP's Richard Thomson, however Labour has held the seat in the past and it is also being targeted by Reform.
The parties are at odds over who is to blame for the plight of the North Sea amid sweeping job losses as operators and supply chains abandon the basin over political obstacles such as the Energy Profits Levy and blocks on new exploration.
Badenoch accused the Labour UK Government of blocking new drilling and criticised its commitment to the windfall tax, telling The P&J: "Next month’s by-election is the chance for people in Aberdeen South to say enough is enough, this war on domestic oil and gas must stop."
She urged voters to send a "loud and clear message to Scotland's two out-of-touch governments" by electing Douglas Lumsden.
Commenting on the Tory leader's visit, Thomson said: “The only reason Kemi Badenoch should be showing her face in Aberdeen is to apologise to the communities suffering the consequences of her party's job-killing tax on Scotland's energy.
"1,000 jobs are being lost every month thanks to the Tories' windfall tax with investment driven away and our supply chains put at risk - the Tories cannot wash their hands of the damage they have caused in Aberdeen.
"£400billion has been syphoned off from our North Sea and just like Nigel Farage and Labour, the Tories want to continue to treat our industry as a cash cow with nothing sent back in return - it is Scotland's energy and it should be in Scotland's hands.
"Only the SNP is on the side of Scotland's energy sector and the people who work in it - Scotland's has the energy, but Westminster has the power. A vote for the SNP is a vote it to put Scotland's energy in Scotland's hands."