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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Norwegian Ocean Industry Authority (Havtil), the country’s offshore industry safety watchdog, has granted consent to Equinor ...

Norwegian oil and gas operator DNO has made an important oil and gas discovery in Northern North Sea license PL1182 S, using ...

North Sea oil and gas producers face a fresh windfall tax under plans to ensure British households “share in the profits” of future energy crises. Ministers on Wednesday confirmed that the cur ...

A British diver survived a horrifying underwater accident which left him under the North Sea with no oxygen supply ... Lemons' cord snagged on the oil rig, stretching and snapping before Yuasa ...