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

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

Thousands of oil and gas rigs are becoming redundant around the world – and taking them out of service, known as decommissioning, is a multi-billion dollar business. It’s also a complex operation ...

Steve Beedie, a mental health advocate based in Aberdeen, worked on offshore rigs across the world for fifteen years after ...

The UK’s renewable energy industry is not developing quickly enough to replace the fossil fuels altogether yet ...

On Mar. 10, 2025, container ship MV Solong collided with fuel tanker MV Stena Immaculate off the UK coast, triggering an ...

A video, which has amassed 4.9 million views on YouTube, details how the men lost their lives while working on the oil rig in the North Sea near Norway after a sudden pressure change caused their ...

Decommissioning the world’s ageing offshore oil and gas infrastructure can be dangerous, costly and complex, and progress so far has been far from encouraging ...

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.

Labour vow over new North Sea oil licences as Rachel Reeves and ... warns climate expert An oil rig is towed by tugboats off the coast of Hartlepool on its way to be decommissioned (Picture ...

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 ...