In Aberdeen, the epicenter of Britain’s drilling industry, the future of the North Sea is a constant topic of conversation.

Experts who helped Burnham draw up Manchester carbon neutral pledge say backtracking would send wrong message amid wildfires and heatwaves ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Bored with palm-fringed beaches and turquoise seas? Then the gigantic oil platforms of the North Sea beckon. The first ever "rig-spotting" cruise just ended off the coast of Norway, ...

The price of crude oil is steadily declining, leading to the abandonment of oil rigs in Scotland and other countries.

In the North Sea, the vast, shallow sandbank known as Dogger Bank was once among the most productive marine nurseries in Europe. The area stretches across U.K., Dutch, German and Danish waters, and is ...

Stormy weather buffeting the North Sea has brought havoc to oilfields with Norway’s Statoil reporting one man dead when a giant wave hit a rig and hundreds of workers evacuated after a huge barge ...

Britain first discovered gas in the North sea in 1965. Oil finds soon followed and by the early 1980s the UK was exporting ...

There are hundreds of oil and gas rigs off the coast of Scotland but the UK Labour Party had pledged not to allow new drilling Andy Burnham has been urged to stick to Labour's manifesto and block ...

Hundreds of North Sea oil workers could be sacked because they are too heavy to be helicoptered off their rigs in an emergency. There are 800 riggers who are too heavy to be rescued.

Hundreds of North Sea oil workers are taking weight-loss jabs to meet new helicopter weight limits and keep their jobs.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Dogger Bank is a vast, shallow sandbank in the North Sea that was once among the most productive marine nurseries in Europe, prompting experts to ...