An offshore worker can earn from £5,000 to £15,000 ... farms for the next two years before getting a contract on an oil rig. My skills were more in demand on oil rigs than on wind farms.

Oil rigs have some of the most dangerous working conditions of any job out there. Workers are often faced with extreme weather and harsh working conditions. The nature of the job puts oil rig workers ...

An oil rig worker has been airlifted from a north sea oil rig after suffering a medical emergency. The staff member was flown off the Noble Patriot rig, near the Shetland Isles, on Wednesday and ...

An oil rig worker has been rescued from his North Sea base by the Coastguard following a medical emergency. A staff member was flown off the Noble Patriot rig, near the Shetland Isles, on ...

HUNDREDS of oil-rig workers could down tools over bosses’ attempts to slash their pay by 30 per cent. Unite announced yesterday it would join GMB and RMT in balloting workers against the proposals ...

SEVERAL thousand Vietnamese workers protested at Chinese-owned factories today, vandalising some of them. The workers were angry at Beijing's establishment of an oil rig in waters claimed by Vietnam, ...

General Hydrocarbons Limited (GHL) has faulted a claim of diversion of oil mining proceeds made against ... when the drilling rig, Blackford Dolphin, ran out of fuel, food, water and other ...