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 oil rigs could be forced to shut down unless they commit to running on green energy, regulators have warned. The North Sea Transition Authority's new blueprint, published today (March 27 ...

A video, which has amassed 4.9 million views on YouTube, details how the men lost their lives while working on the oil rig in the North Sea near Norway after a sudden pressure change caused their ...

Estimates show that the cost of removing waste from Shell’s rigs could be north of £400m. The Brent oil field was discovered in 1971 off the northeast coast of Scotland, between the Shetland ...

The BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that exploded April ... geologists have confirmed the presence of massive deep-sea oil fields off Brazil’s coast—an estimated 15 billion barrels of crude ...

Britain's coast guard says an oil tanker and a cargo ship have collided off the coast of eastern England and a rescue operation is underway ...

The deal will quadruple DNO's North Sea production to about 80,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) and lift its total output to around 140,000 boepd based on pro-forma 2024 data ...

And his hunting ground is the geological treasure trove beneath the North Sea. The entrepreneur’s company, Orcadian Energy, specialises in taking on tricky but promising oil and gas discoveries ...