On July 6, 1988, the Piper Alpha oil platform in the North Sea became the site of one of the deadliest offshore disasters in history. A maintenance error triggered a gas leak that quickly ignited into ...

The price of crude oil is steadily declining, leading to the abandonment of oil rigs in Scotland and other countries.

Hundreds of North Sea oil workers could be sacked because they are too heavy to be helicoptered off their rigs in an ...

North Sea operators directed towards GLP-1 drugs to help employees comply with new safety rules and keep their jobs ...

Stormy weather buffeting the North Sea has brought havoc to oilfields with Norway’s Statoil reporting one man dead when a giant wave hit a rig and hundreds of workers evacuated after a huge barge ...

Exclusive: Blunder at Rosebank, UK’s biggest undeveloped oilfield, comes as government considers granting licence ...

The U.S. government sounds like it took a huge bong rip and dared ask the question no one really cared to ask or even wanted answered: What if America’s abandoned offshore oil rigs became rocket ...

Ukrainian drones attacked Russian frigate Admiral Makarov and an offshore drilling platform on the Black Sea, Unmanned Systems Forces commander Robert "Magyar" Brovdi said on April 6. The frigate was ...

On December 22, 1972, a joint venture of four oil companies discovered the deepwater Piper oilfield. After conducting seismic mapping, they confirmed the area—located in the North Sea roughly halfway ...

April 23 (UPI) --A wildlife rescue in Scotland is caring for three baby rabbits that stowed away in an offshore container and wound up on the deck of an oil rig in the North Sea. Ithaca Energy said on ...