The US President-elect's intervention follows US oil and gas producer Apache's November announcement that it would end all operations in the North Sea by December 2029. Apache blamed its decision ...

Last December it announced it was ending all new oil and gas exploration in the North Sea. Energy Minister Dan Jorgensen said the country was simply "changing the map". "This is gigantic," Prof ...

December 27, 1965: Britain’s first ever North Sea oil rig collapsed and killed 13 men during a bitter snowstorm and 20ft-high waves on this day in 1965. BP’s Sea Gem drilling platform was in the ...

The bottom of the North Sea could hold the key to understanding the UK’sStone Age ancestors. Archaeologists have begun dredging the sea floor to discover artefacts dating back more than 10,000 ...