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.

Families of the more than 120 men killed when an oil rig capsized 45 years ago were failed ... block when it collapsed in the Norwegian North Sea during a storm in 1980, killing 123 people ...

The ban on drilling is in place after a judge decided the previous Conservative government acted "unlawfully" when it gave ...

NORTH SEA oil rig bosses took part in “constructive” talks with unions yesterday after being brought to the negotiating table by the first rig strikes in almost 30 years. Members of unions Unite and ...