Oil is declining in the North Sea. What does the future hold for the basin and its communities? We spoke to experts.

In July 1988, a fire breaks out on a vast oil rig in the North Sea, trapping Joe Meanen.

The firm, Well-Safe Solutions based out of Aberdeen, employs around 400 people. It has announced it will downsize its ...

On Mar. 10, 2025, container ship MV Solong collided with fuel tanker MV Stena Immaculate off the UK coast, triggering an ...

The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in Upper Cretaceous limestone rocks in the Tor formation. The well ...

The UK’s renewable energy industry is not developing quickly enough to replace the fossil fuels altogether yet ...

A video, which has amassed 4.9 million views on YouTube, 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 ...

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.

Tampnet and Armada have announced a partnership aiming to offer on-rig processing and onshore compute. The companies will ...

Dutch operator ONE-Dyas will drill an appraisal well on its Crosgan discovery in the UK North Sea, with potential for ... 42/14a using the jack-up drilling rig Prospector 1, according to a deep ...

The price of crude oil is steadily declining and in Scotland as in many other countries, this means the abandonment of oil rigs. To disassemble the machines is not just costly, it also might prove to ...