Here are the top business stories making the headlines in the morning newspapers.
Fears for work and pensions office in Granite City
Aberdeen's main Department for Work and Pensions office has been "earmarked for closure", as fears grow for around 3,000 jobs across the UK.
The fate of Ebury House, on the city's Dee Street, was revealed by Aberdeen South MP Stephen Flynn at the House of Commons on Thursday.
The Press and Journal says it comes as part of reported plans to close 42 offices across the UK.
The PCS union warns more than 1,000 workers face a "very serious prospect of redundancy" at 13 of the department's sites where no option of relocation has been made available. It believes up to 3,000 jobs could be at risk across the country overall.
Some 64 members of staff are currently employed at Ebury House.
Next steps for Cambo development
Shell has said it is working with Siccar Point Energy and the UK Government to "map out the next steps" on the Cambo project.
Environmental campaigners claimed a "death blow" to the controversial West of Shetland development in December when Shell decided not to move it to a crucial investment decision.
Shell said at the time that it was because the economic case was "not strong enough", casting doubt over the future of the project and for wider developments in UK waters.
However more than three months on, Shell retains its 30% stake.
Energy Voice says it's unclear how or when Shell might dispose of its holding in the scheme.
Plea to cut fuel duty
Scotland's Finance Minister has called on her UK counterpart to cut fuel duty in his spring Budget on Wednesday next week, saying: "He can do it, he should do it."
Kate Forbes told the Press and Journal that Chancellor Rishi Sunak needed to "use the powers that are reserved to the UK Government to make a real difference" to Scotland, and demanded VAT be cut on fuel as part of a range of measures needed to prevent more families from being "plunged into poverty".
Her call came as the price of fuel has soared recently.
Braemar community step up to aid staff of fire-hit hotel
Residents have banded together to offer shelter and support to staff whose "home and livelihood" were destroyed in the devastating fire at the Braemar Lodge Hotel.
Locals have been left heartbroken and distraught after the village's iconic hotel burned to the ground on Wednesday following an explosion.
The seven guests and three staff members, who were inside the hotel when it caught fire, were safely evacuated uninjured.
But all of their belongings have been destroyed, reports the Press and Journal.