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Royal Dutch Shell is planning further job cuts in its UK North Sea oil and gas business in 2015, the company said on Thursday, just a week after a package of

Fifteen workers have been evacuated from a North Sea oil platform after a supply vessel collided with the facility Monday

Total E&P Norge (TEPN), Statoil and Talisman Energy have all been given approval to commence drilling operations in the central part of the North Sea by

The world’s biggest oil and gas producers, already cutting hundreds of jobs a week from the U.K.’s North Sea, are just warming

There are plenty available as some of the industry’s largest names try to sell aging, costly wells that have become even less profitable with the plunge in

It's that time of year... when hurricane-force storms churn across the north Atlantic before hitting the North

Here's a new video showing a look at the painting of Atlantic Offshore's new PSV Ocean Art, dubbed the "coolest looking" vessel in the North

U.K. oil companies can stop fretting about Scottish independence and go back to combating a slump in output that’s the steepest of any major

There are about 300 rigs in the UK North Sea and the cost of decommissioning is expected to exceed 40 billion pounds ($65 billion) until 2040, with expenditure

On the 50th anniversary of the issuing of the first licenses for the extraction of oil and gas from the UK continental shelf (UKCS), we asked oil executives

The electrification of Norwegian oil platforms in an area of the North Sea with power from the shore must be completed by 2022, the country's parliament said

By Tom Bergin LONDON, May 13 (Reuters) – A planned change in the way Britain taxes North Sea drillers exposes the loophole in a system that allowed an

Britain has launched its 28th tender for oil and gas licenses, opening up new offshore areas to drilling for fossil fuels that generate important tax revenue

Statoil ASA lowered the resource estimate for the Johan Sverdrup oil discovery and delayed the start of production by about a year in a setback for the biggest

The Grampian Protector, a 44-meter Emergency Response and Rescue Vessel was working in the North Sea last week during the nasty storm Xaver. One of the

Hurricane-force Storm Xaver blasted towards mainland Europe on Thursday after cutting transport and power in northern Britain and killing three people in what

A search is underway in the North Sea for three missing from a standby security vessel that sank Monday morning following a collision with a fishing

Britain's aviation regulator on Tuesday launched a review into offshore helicopter operations in the North Sea, a month after four oil workers were killed when

Luxembourg – September 4, 2013 – Subsea 7 S.A. (Oslo Børs: SUBC) today announced the award of a contract valued at approximately $140 million

By Balazs Koranyi and Michael Shields OSLO/VIENNA, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Norway’s Statoil sold stakes in North Sea oil fields to Austria’s OMV