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 the North and Baltic seas. It has been edited for length ...

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.

BP’s Sea Gem drilling platform was in the process of being moved to another site ... “We went out through a snowstorm,” he told the BBC. “It was clear weather around the oil rig but it was rough.

Well, it seems as though enclosed water-based settings are the latest trend as Rig 45: Murder At Sea, with an isolated oil rig as the primary focus, is the latest thriller to air on More4 tonight.

The Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia) has issued a severe continuous heavy rain warning for Telupid, Beluran, ...

Childhood memories of towering oil rigs being built in the Cromarty Firth inspired the writer David Macpherson to dream up a North Sea-set supernatural thriller from his flat in the seaside town ...

The Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia) has issued a severe continuous heavy rain warning for Telupid, Beluran, ...

The operator of the Anasuria Cluster in the UK North Sea has awarded the services contracts necessary to bring on stream the Teal West satellite oil discovery ... both the rig contract and the ...