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 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 ...

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 was a great day, early last month, aboard British Petroleum’s offshore drilling rig Sea Gem, anchored 42 miles off the coast of Britain in the North Sea. Flow tests of the natural-gas pocket ...

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 ...