It was a work horse in the North Sea oil fields for decades, first as a drilling rig and then as a production facility. But as these dramatic images show it took just seconds to reduce the ...

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 horror diving accident that saw a man completely ... details how the men lost their lives while working on the oil rig in the North Sea near Norway after a sudden pressure change caused their ...

Vår Energi ASA drilled a dry well on the “Kokopelli” prospect, south of the Sleipner area in the North Sea. Wildcat well ... Pioneer semisubmersible drilling rig to a vertical depth of ...