Drilling from the North Sea. In the center you can clearly see how a layer of brown peat is covered by a layer of gray clay, the moment (8700 years ago) that this part of the North Sea was flooded.

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.

Equinor Energy AS drilling has been granted a permit by the Norwegian Offshore Directorate for drilling in the North Sea. Equinor Energy ... semisubmersible drilling rig. Equinor is operator ...

Vår Energi ASA drilled a dry well on the “Kokopelli” prospect, south of the Sleipner area in the North Sea. Wildcat well ... Pioneer semisubmersible drilling rig to a vertical depth of ...