“That’s oil.” McKewon had brought the oil from the Sea Quest drilling rig. It marked the first time a drilling rig had struck oil in the North Sea – and kickstarted one of Britain’s most lucrative ...

North Sea oil rigs could be forced to shut down unless they commit to running on green energy, regulators have warned. The North Sea Transition Authority's new blueprint, published today (March 27 ...

Taxpayers are to pay hundreds of millions of pounds to cover part of the cost of dismantling some of Shell’s dirtiest oil rigs in the North Sea. It comes after the energy giant risks being ...

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.

It achieves this by coupling the models with smart directional drilling tools and the rig automation control system. "This project demonstrated autonomous on-bottom drilling where we orchestrated ...

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 ...