Taxpayers are to pay hundreds of millions of pounds to cover part of the cost of dismantling some of Shell’s dirtiest oil rigs in the North Sea. It comes after the energy giant risks being ...

It was a work horse in the North Sea oil fields for decades, first as a drilling rig and then as a production facility. But as these dramatic images show it took just seconds to reduce the ...

Six people directly involved in physical North Sea oil and derivatives trading said that the heightened volumes bore the hallmarks of a trader having their positions stopped out. The term means ...

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.

“That’s oil.” McKeown had brought the oil from the Sea Quest drilling rig. It marked the first time a drilling rig had struck oil in the North Sea – and kickstarted one of Britain’s most lucrative ...

DNO noted in the statement that the Kjøttkake exploration well encountered a 41 meter (134.5 foot) oil column and a nine ...

A British diver survived a horrifying underwater accident which left him under the North ... sea. It dragged him and his fellow diver, Dave Yuasa, along with it. Lemons' cord snagged on the oil ...

A new report criticises the response to the deaths in 1980 of 123 North Sea oil rig workers. The charity agrees to pay £300,000 to the RNLI after campaigners climbed onto a floating production ...