Families of the more than 120 men killed when an oil rig capsized 45 years ago were failed by official investigations, a new study has concluded. The Alexander Kielland platform was being used as an ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Kailem Donovan, an offshore rope access rigger who works on oil rigs in ... same on most rigs in the North Sea: Fish Friday ...

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 ...

NORTH SEA oil rig bosses took part in “constructive” talks with unions yesterday after being brought to the negotiating table by the first rig strikes in almost 30 years. Members of unions Unite and ...

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.