Oil and gas exploration well 35/6-6 will be drilled by the Transocean Norge semisubmersible drilling rig in production license 1109 in the North Sea in February. OMV (Norge) AS is operator of the ...

The world's worst offshore disaster was on the Piper Alpha rig in 1988 when 167 men died. Oil production has slowed in the past decade but new discoveries are still being made in the North Sea.

North Sea offshore workers have been evacuated from an oil rig off after a crash with a supply vessel. Harbour Energy said that 52 "non-essential personnel" had been taken off its Valaris 120 ...