A company has been fined £287,000 after an offshore worker fell to his death through a hole on a North Sea rig. Jason Thomas, ...

An offshore firm has been handed a £267,000 fine after an investigation ruled that health and safety failings resulted in an employee falling ...

A HORROR image has revealed how an oil rig worker plunged to his death in 2023 – leading to a huge fine for bosses.

The boss of Shell has urged Labour to ramp up drilling in the North Sea, claiming it would deliver a much-needed boost to Britain’s struggling economy. Wael Sawan called for Ed Miliband to approve two ...

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The UK North Sea is becoming a happy hunting ground for a Norwegian offshore drilling company with a fast-growing backlog for its deep-water drilling units. Oslo-listed Dolphin Drilling has a ...

Jason Thomas' body was never recovered after he fell into the North Sea through a missing deck grate ...

Britain first discovered gas in the North sea in 1965. Oil finds soon followed and by the early 1980s the UK was exporting more oil than it imported. Aberdeen became the oil capital of Europe and an ...

In July 1988, the North Sea oil platform ignited. As it melted around him, Joe Meanen knew there was only one possible, but highly perilous, way out for him Joe Meanen estimates it took him about six ...