Serica Energy shares plunged on Wednesday as the North Sea oil and gas firm warned of further production delays related to the damage caused by Storm Éowyn in January. The London-listed group ...

So the massive rigs, weighing around a thousand tons each, are towed into the Cromarty Firth from the North Sea. Here they will pile up and rust until the economy turns its favor toward crude oil ...

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.

The fallout from the North Sea oil tanker collision on March 10 may have you reflecting on other significant man-made environmental disasters ...

A new report criticises the response to the deaths in 1980 of 123 North Sea oil rig workers. The charity agrees to pay £300,000 to the RNLI after campaigners climbed onto a floating production ...

Most recently (March 10), a collision between two ships has potentially spilled chemicals into the North Sea ... oil spills in history. In April 2010, an oil well on BP's Deepwater Horizon rig ...

A DIVER whose near death experience has been turned into a Hollywood movie admits he’d hoped to get away with it without having to tell his parents. Edinburgh-born Chris Lemons lay on the bottom ...

A bellwether of UK North Sea oil and gas production, BP first located natural gas in the southern North Sea working with the rig Sea Gem in 1965, and has been one of the biggest stakeholders in ...

Two days later, the rig collapsed. Oil began seeping into the sea, and it continued to flow for almost three months. On 10 March 2025, two ships collided in the North Sea: the oil tanker MV Stena ...