The Barents Sea is poised to deliver a new oil discovery to a heavyweight Norwegian joint venture near one of the region’s ...

Thousands of jobs in the North Sea are being put at risk because the Government is driven by “zealotry”, the Conservatives have said. Shadow environment minister Andrew Bowie said the Government will ...

Norwegian oil and gas firm Aker BP and its partners have drilled a dry well in the North Sea, offshore Norway.The drilling ...

A power outage has forced the shutdown of the Johan Sverdrup oilfield, Western Europe's largest, impacting oil production in ...

A court has ruled that consent for two new Scottish oil and gas fields was granted unlawfully and their owners must seek ...

A judge has upheld a legal challenge by environmental campaigners against the decision to grant consent to two new oil and ...

A Royal Navy submarine has been used to warn off Russian spy ships operating around British waters. Defence Secretary John Healey gave details about the activities of the Yantar, which he said the ...

In January that year a significant earthquake measuring 3.6 in magnitude was recorded in the North Sea, in an area of oil and gas platforms. It struck around 146 miles east of Aberdeen.

Norges manages the country’s vast North Sea oil wealth, with total investments worth 20 trillion Norwegian kroner (£1.4 trillion). The country has taken the fossil fuel revenue and invested it ...

A long-awaited skills passport to help UK North Sea workers switch to clean energy ... Up to 100,000 jobs across the oil and gas sector are threatened by the UK government’s plans to ban new ...

Over 30% of the UK’s oil and gas wells are shut-in, according to the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA). The regulator said “more than 20 million barrels could potentially be produced ...