Estimates show that the cost of removing waste from Shell’s rigs could be north of £400m. The Brent oil field was discovered in 1971 off the northeast coast of Scotland, between the Shetland ...

Militant youths in Nigeria have freed a group of 99 hostages they seized from a Shell oil rig off the West African nation's coast. Armed youths took control of the offshore facility Thursday night ...

The consortium expects phase 4 to average 21,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day. The development consists of three oil ...

WWF`s Margaret Williams, Managing Director, Arctic Program, issued the following statement today about the grounding of Shell Oil Company’s drilling rig, the Kulluk, “This latest mishap by Royal Dutch ...

The number of oil rigs stayed the same—down by 18 compared to this time last year. The number of gas rigs fell by 1 to 101 ...

WORKERS on eight Shell oil and gas platforms will strike next week over a 30 per cent pay cut, their unions announced yesterday. Members of Unite and RMT will take part in a 24-hour stoppage on July ...

Designed to assist offshore oil rigs, it reportedly cost around 2.97bn ... but the largest floating vessel currently in operation is the Shell Prelude, a 488m long platform for liquefied natural ...

UNIONS fear oil giant Shell will use a “scab labour force” working in dangerous environments to break strikes after North Sea workers voted “overwhelmingly” to take action for the first time in a ...

Sabah Shell Petroleum Company (SSPC), a subsidiary of Shell, has produced first oil from Phase 4 of the ...