"This morning, Sea-Watch's fast ship Aurora left (the Italian island of) Lampedusa to rescue them. Now the people are safe, assisted by our crew," it said in a statement. Sign up here. A ...

In July 1988, a fire breaks out on a vast oil rig in the North Sea, trapping Joe Meanen.

ROME (Reuters) - More than 30 migrants including two children have been stranded for three days on an oil rig off Tunisia and are in dire need of help, the Sea-Watch charity said on Monday.

“That’s it,” his boss reportedly said. “That’s oil.” McKewon had brought the oil from the Sea Quest drilling rig. It marked the first time a drilling rig had struck oil in the North Sea – and ...

A port official said he was told the North Sea collision produced "a massive fireball" and the cargo ship's owner said one ...

A cargo ship that smashed into a US military chartered oil tanker off the northeast coast of England on Monday was carrying ...

China National Offshore Oil Corporation operates an offshore drilling rig in an oil field in the Bohai Sea. CHINA DAILY In a ...

President Donald Trump's administration is considering a plan to stop and inspect Iranian oil tankers at sea under an international accord aimed at countering the spread of weapons of mass destruction ...

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.

A tanker and a cargo ship crashed in the North Sea off the East Yorkshire coast on Monday. A fire on the tanker continues to ...