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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has called for an end to the windfall tax on oil and gas companies and said new licenses should be issued for drilling in the North Sea.
Addressing the Scottish Conservative party conference in Edinburgh, Badenoch said the tax – known as Energy Profits Levy – should be scrapped before its current 2030 expiration.
The levy was brought in by the previous Conservative UK government but Badenoch said her party had got this wrong.
Opposition politicians criticised Badenoch's comments and the End Fuel Poverty Coalition described them as "out of touch".
The Tory leader also claimed that Scotland had "declined" under left wing parties and that the SNP had wasted millions on "independence propaganda".