Oil is declining in the North Sea. What does the future hold for the basin and its communities? We spoke to experts.

Spanish oil company Repsol, backed by private equity, and NEO Energy agreed to merge the UK North Sea oil-and-gas businesses.

Norwegian oil and gas operator DNO has made an important oil and gas discovery in Northern North Sea license PL1182 S, using ...

Norwegian Ocean Industry Authority (Havtil), the country’s offshore industry safety watchdog, has granted consent to Equinor ...

In July 1988, a fire breaks out on a vast oil rig in the North Sea, trapping Joe Meanen.

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.

Despite predictions of decline, the UK's North Sea oil and gas sector has seen a surge in investment, exceeding forecasts and ...

OMV (Norge) AS has plugged the Horatio prospect in the North Sea. The well is classified as dry. Well 35/6-6, the first to be drilled in production license 1109, was drilled using the Transocean Norge ...

The UK’s North Sea oil and gas regulator raised its forecasts for investment and production in the coming years after 2024 ...

An environmentalist group is suing the UK government to suspend 31 North Sea oil and gas licenses, alleging they were granted without proper consideration of environmental impacts.

its oil rig count increased by three, and miscellaneous rig counts remained unchanged, week on week, the count showed. The total North America rig count is down 19 compared to year ago levels ...

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 ...