Estimates show that the cost of removing waste from Shell’s rigs could be north of £400m. The Brent oil field was discovered in 1971 off the northeast coast of Scotland, between the Shetland ...

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 ...

Crosgan discovery is operated by ONE-Dyas under joint venture with Shell around 60 kilometres east of the partners’ Pensacola ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Kailem Donovan, an offshore rope access rigger who works on oil rigs in ... same on most rigs in the North Sea: Fish Friday ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 British diver survived a horrifying underwater accident which left him under the North ... sea. It dragged him and his fellow diver, Dave Yuasa, along with it. Lemons' cord snagged on the oil ...