“That’s oil.” McKeown had brought the oil from the Sea Quest drilling rig. It marked the first time a drilling rig had struck oil in the North Sea – and kickstarted one of Britain’s most lucrative ...

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.

DNO, a Norwegian oil and gas operator, has reported an oil and gas discovery in the northern North Sea licence PL1182 S, ...

The North Sea regulator has underlined the potential to discover huge amounts of oil and gas in such areas ... This involved installing the first production platform in the stormy waters West ...

Inc. to service the oil drill platforms dotting the U.K.'s sector of the North Sea. The self-elevating vessel consists of a 180-ft. by 92-ft. (54.8-m by 28-m) ship hull with a 9-ft. (2.74-m ...

The unit’s three platforms have been shut down ... gallons of oil near Refugio State Beach north of Santa Barbara. The oil spill killed hundreds of birds and marine mammals, including dolphins and sea ...

Two ships, including an oil tanker, have collided in the North Sea off the coast of the United Kingdom ... a U.S.-flagged ship that, according to data platform Kpler, was carrying almost 50,000 ...

Norway’s DNO announced on Wednesday that it has made a new oil and gas discovery in the Northern North Sea at a license in which it holds a 40% operated interest. DNO said that the discovery at the ...