British families of those killed in a Norwegian oil rig disaster have welcomed a decision to set up a compensation scheme ...

Oil and gas services firm Petrofac is set to appoint administrators, placing thousands of jobs in jeopardy across its global ...

Ministers are scrambling to save one of the Britain’s largest offshore contractors after its holding company filed for ...

An owl has been saved from a North Sea oil rig after being blown nearly 200 miles off course by storm winds. The short-eared ...

On a North Sea oil rig several years ago, an engineer noticed a strange phenomenon. A cloud of insects would descend from the sky and land on the upper reaches of the platform. There were thousands of ...

An exhausted owl that was rescued after landing on a North Sea platform has been released back into the wild. The female short-eared owl was found on the Noble Patriot platform 180 miles (290km) off ...

In the North Sea — between the United Kingdom, Norway and Denmark — thousands of flies swarmed an oil rig. Engineer Craig Hannah noticed they’d stay still on the rig for hours, suddenly taking off all ...

Toby Doyle is affiliated with The University of Exeter. Eva Jimenez-Guri is affiliated with The University of Exeter. On a North Sea oil rig several years ago, an engineer noticed a strange phenomenon ...