If correct, the law discriminates unfairly against North Sea operators as any company providing oil to UK consumers that has been extracted anywhere else in the world — and transported thousands ...

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 judge has ruled that private interests and climate change considerations should have been considered when the U.K.

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 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 ...

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 ...

Laura Fleming's father Michel was killed in the 1980 Kielland catastrophe Families of those killed in an oil rig disaster 45 years ... in the Norwegian North Sea during a storm in 1980, killing ...

LONDON — The Scottish High Court quashed decisions by the British government to approve drilling in two vast North Sea oil and gas fields after legal challenges from environmental campaigners.

Shell said on Tuesday it has restarted production at the Penguins oil field in the UK North Sea, with a new floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility.