“That’s oil.” McKewon 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 ...

The price of crude oil is steadily declining and in Scotland as in many other countries, this means the abandonment of oil rigs. To disassemble the machines is not just costly, it also might prove to ...

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.

There will, Sarah Jones MP told the House of Commons, be no more licences for oil and gas in the North Sea. In statement entitled ... warns climate expert An oil rig is towed by tugboats ...

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 ...

The fallout from the North Sea oil tanker collision on March 10 may have you reflecting on other significant man-made ...

Most recently (March 10), a collision between two ships has potentially spilled chemicals into the North Sea ... oil spills in history. In April 2010, an oil well on BP's Deepwater Horizon rig ...

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 ...

which included a number of offshore support vessels that frequent the North Sea oil fields, to render assistance. These ships are remarkably seaworthy platforms equipped with high tech station ...

Armada has partnered with offshore-focused communications firm Tampnet to provide Edge compute to oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico ... Tampnet operates offshore communication networks in the North Sea, ...

Director and co-writer Alex Parkinson, who previously co-directed the 2019 documentary on the same subject, recreates the 2012 incident in which deep-sea divers in the North Sea had to rescue one ...