Ed Miliband’s wind turbine blitz threatens to leave the North Sea strewn with rusting oil rigs because of a lack of equipment needed to dismantle the retired platforms. The Energy Secretary’s ...

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.

Selina Williams is an energy reporter for The Wall Street Journal. She is responsible for covering mid-size oil and gas companies, oil service companies, shale gas, nuclear power and UK energy policy.

Britain approves new North Sea oil drilling but ignores climate ... the use of "blowout preventer" devices on offshore oil and gas drilling rigs. In referendum, Ecuador voters reject oil drilling ...

The North Sea crude market, home to the world's most important physical oil-price benchmark Dated Brent, often sees individual traders taking relatively large positions. Image by Igors Aleksejevs ...

Speaking during a Parliamentary debate on the issue on Wednesday, MPs from across the political divide expressed support for ...

Offshore drilling company Valaris has secured over $1 billion of new contracts and extension for its drilling rigs since its ...

Gunvor Group, one of the world’s biggest independent oil traders, piled into the North Sea crude market during a wider rout in futures markets.