They have been growing on subsea structures for decades but are now under threat as old platforms are decommissioned.

A recent BBC documentary series, The Piper Alpha Disaster, introduced a new generation to the precarious nature of rig life - telling the story of the July 1988 tragedy, in which 167 men died on one ...

Victor Gibson spent 20 years as a sailor including a decade as a master of North Sea supply ships, describing his fellow ...

Chinese oil rigs in waters claimed by Taiwan have stirred controversy in recent days, drawing a sharp protest from Taipei, ...

Norwegian energy company Equinor has secured two permits from the Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) to drill wildcat wells ...

Folks on Louisiana's bayous, where Big Oil is really big, know firsthand the perils of sea level rise, and a group of North ...

A controlled explosive, used to stimulate well activity and create bores for access to the gas and oil, was prematurely ...

THE first thing Ed Punchard knew about the explosion on the Piper Alpha oil rig was when the roof of his “bomb proof” office collapsed on his head. The diver, who’d already come close to one ...

One of the worst oil rig disasters in the world happened on British shores, as 167 people were killed when the Piper Alpha ...

Taipei accuses Beijing of breaching international law. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

China was reportedly building oil and gas rigs inside Taiwan’s exclusive economic zone, in what analysts claimed was part of ...