An oil and gas operator has been fined £300,000 following a "terrifying incident" on a North Sea rig that saw three workers lowered into a flooded lift shaft.

An ocean of money and metal - see how $40 billion was poured into rescuing North Sea oil rigs in a jaw-dropping operation.

Drilling Operations Aker BP drills dry hole north of Ormen Lange The primary exploration target for the well was to prove oil in Upper Cretaceous reservoir rocks in the Nise formation.

North America dropped six rigs week on week, according to Baker Hughes' latest North America rotary rig count.

U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating for an 11th week in a row for the first time ...

Britain has issued tougher new environmental rules for fossil fuel projects with implications for the development of two vast North Sea oil and gas fields by Shell and Equinor .

Dramatic video captures the moment a Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopter pulled an ill oil worker off a rig and transported him to ...

The UK government is mulling over a change to the law to oil and gas projects in the North Sea in a drive to lower energy bills. Michael Shanks, a minister working under energy secretary Ed ...

The North Sea could still hold the key to meeting half of the UK’s oil and gas needs, which is almost double what the government currently estimates.

US oil and gas drilling activity slipped by a single unit this week, leaving 554 rigs running. Canada gained a unit, ending the week with 139 total rigs working.

The North Sea could still hold the key to meeting half the UK’s oil and gas needs - almost double what the government estimates. According to a new independent study, up to 7.5bn barrels of oil ...