Lefties of a certain age all agree on one thing. Margaret Thatcher was evil. Not misguided, duplicitous or unscrupulous. But plain wicked. It is often said that one of the problems with politics today ...

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UK pubcaster the BBC has commissioned a docuseries about the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster off the Scottish coast in the 1980s ...

THE Piper Alpha blaze remains to this day the world’s deadliest offshore disaster. The North Sea oil platform was engulfed by a fireball 120 miles off the coast of Aberdeen 37 years ago. The ...

A powerful story of the rush for North Sea ‘black gold’, safety failures and a community devastated by loss… The Untold Story ...

Egypt's top oil official reviews status of investigation into fatal rig sinking Minister of Petroleum Karim Badawi met with owners of rig and technical investigation committee Egypt's Minister of ...

The oil industry’s worst nightmare came true on July 6, 1988. The Piper Alpha oil platform suffered a catastrophic explosion, leaving most workers trapped in an inferno at sea. This disaster led to ...

The Coast Guard medevacked a man who was reportedly suffering severe chest pains from an oil rig off the coast of Santa Barbara on Friday.

US-Iran tensions impact oil markets and the strategic Strait of Hormuz. See why market resilience defies expectations despite geopolitical risks.

The miscellaneous rig count rose by 2 to 5. The latest EIA data showed that weekly U.S. crude oil production rose again this week, from 13.428 million bpd to 13.431 million bpd.

A collision between two oil tankers just east of the world’s most critical oil choke point, the Strait of Hormuz, could bring about a potential environmental disaster, Greenpeace said on ...