Five Mexican oil workers were robbed and beaten by gun-toting “pirates” on a rig Feb. 14 in the Bay of Campeche, the ...

HUNDREDS of oil-rig workers could down tools over bosses’ attempts to slash their pay by 30 per cent. Unite announced yesterday it would join GMB and RMT in balloting workers against the proposals ...

Jan 24 (Reuters) - U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating for a third week in a row to the lowest since December 2021, energy services firm Baker Hughes ...

SEVERAL thousand Vietnamese workers protested at Chinese-owned factories today, vandalising some of them. The workers were angry at Beijing's establishment of an oil rig in waters claimed by Vietnam, ...

The number of operational oil and gas rigs in the US has decreased for the third consecutive week, reported Reuters, citing US energy services company Baker Hughes. The US oil and gas rig count ...

A medical evacuation is underway from an offshore oil rig west of Shetland, according to the Coastguard. The emergency was ...

Aberdeen became the oil capital of Europe and an estimated half a million jobs were created by the industry over the decades. The world's worst offshore disaster was on the Piper Alpha rig in 1988 ...

Families of the more than 120 men killed when an oil rig capsized 45 years ago were ... with five of those who died being workers from Cleator Moor in Cumbria. Wayne Hunter, from Cleator Moor ...