The ban on drilling is in place after a judge decided the previous Conservative government acted "unlawfully" when it gave ...

A judge has ruled that private interests and climate change considerations should have been considered when the U.K.

Vår Energi has been granted a permit by the Norwegian Offshore Directorate to drill in the North Sea. Vår Energi ASA has been ...

THE latest strike on North Sea oil and gas rigs was “solid” yesterday after workers downed tools for a second time in a fight against pay cuts. They struck for 24 hours last week and are now out for ...

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.

Taking their case to the Court of Session in Edinburgh, Greenpeace and Uplift argued that the effects of downstream burning of fuel extracted from the Rosebank oil field, north-west of Shetland, and ...

The decision at Scotland’s Court of Session means the Labour Government will now have to decide whether to approve drilling for the fuel fossil projects ...

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 ...

The Rig season 1 introduced viewers to the Kinloch Bravo oil rig crew stationed in the North Sea. The series followed the crew as they experienced unusual environmental changes, including a dense ...

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 Wednesday ...

If you said "yes" to all of the above, then you're going to love the Prime Video series The Rig, a supernatural thriller about the strange happenings that befall a Scottish oil rig in the North Sea.