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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.

THE latest strike on North Sea oil and gas rigs was “solid” yesterday after workers downed tools for a second time in a fight against pay cuts. They struck for 24 hours last week and are now out for ...

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 ...

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

North Sea offshore workers have been evacuated from an oil rig off after a crash with a supply vessel. Harbour Energy said that 52 "non-essential personnel" had been taken off its Valaris 120 ...

An oil rig worker has been rescued from his North Sea base by the Coastguard following a medical emergency. A staff member was flown off the Noble Patriot rig, near the Shetland Isles, on ...

Oil and gas exploration well 35/6-6 will be drilled by the Transocean Norge semisubmersible drilling rig in production license 1109 in the North Sea in February. OMV (Norge) AS is operator of the ...

Image: North Sea oil rig. Pic: Reuters The head of Apache's parent company APA Corporation said in early November it had concluded the investment required to comply with UK regulations ...