The topic of this thesis is the class of weakly U-abundant semigroups. This class is very wide, containing inverse, orthodox, regular, ample, adequate, quasiadequate, concordant, abundant, restriction, Ehresmann and weakly abundant semigroups. A semigroup S with subset of idempotents U is weakly U-abundant if every R U -class and every L U -class contains an idempotent of U, where R U and L U are relations extending the well known Green's relations R and L. We assume throughout that our semigroups satisfy a condition known as the Congruence Condition (C).We take several approaches to weakly U-abundant semigroups. Our first results describe those that are analogous to completely simple semigroups. Together with an existing result of Ren this determines the structure of those weakly Uabundant semigroups that are analogues of completely regular semigroups, that is, they are superabundant. Our description is in terms of a semilattice of rectangular bands of monoids.The second strand is to aim for an extension of the Hall-Yamada theorem for orthodox semigroups as spined products of inverse semigroups and fundamental orthodox semigroups. To this end we consider weakly B-orthodox semigroups, where B is a band. We note that if B is a semilattice then a weakly B-orthodox semigroup is exactly an Ehresmann semigroup. We provide a description of a weakly B-orthodox semigroup S as a spined product of a fundamental weakly Borthodox semigroup S B (depending only on B) and S/γ B , where B is isomorphic to B and γ B is the analogue of the least inverse congruence on an orthodox semigroup. This result is an analogue of the Hall-Yamada theorem for orthodox semigroups. In the case that B is a normal band, or S is weakly B-superabundant, we find a closed form δ B for γ B , which simplifies our result to a straightforward form.i For the above to work smoothly in the case S is weakly B-superabundant, we need to find a canonical fundamental weakly B-superabundant subsemigroup of S B . This we do, and give the corresponding answers in the case of the Hall semigroup W B and a number of intervening semigroups.We then change our direction. A celebrated result of Nambooripad shows that regular semigroups are determined by ordered groupoids built over a regular biordered set. Our aim, achieved at the end of the thesis, is to extend Nambooripad's work to weakly U-regular semigroups, that is, weakly U-abundant semigroups with (C) and U generating a regular subsemigroup whose set of idempotents is U.As an intervening step we consider weakly B-orthodox semigroups in this light. We take two approaches. The first is via a new construction of an inductive generalised category over a band. In doing so we produce a new approach to characterising orthodox semigroups, by using inductive generalised groupoids.We show that the category of weakly B-orthodox semigroups is isomorphic to the category of inductive generalised categories over bands. Our approach is influenced by that of Nambooripad, however, there are significant differences in strateg...