The Latest Breaking News from the North Sea

The UK will extract as much oil and gas from the North Sea as possible, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday as he announced more than 100 new drilling licenses. Only a few days earlier, United Nations chief António Guterres declared that record heat and extreme weather signalled a…

Is your pet part of the family? That’s nothing new. Archeological evidence exists to suggest that the vikings held their own animals in high – even intimate – regard, taking them with them on voyages. Earlier this year, scientific evidence found for the first time that – as early as…

THE Government’s plans to “max out” North Sea oil and gas reserves poses “no contradiction” to its stated green ambitions, a minister has…

The Dutch government says that a cargo ship carrying thousands of cars that has been burning on the North Sea for nearly a week has been towed further from the Dutch coast

Britain says it will grant hundreds of new oil and gas licenses in the North Sea in a bid for energy independence

The government’s former net zero tsar says Sunak’s announcement ‘is the wrong decision at precisely the wrong time’

The prime minister said he is backing the North Sea oil and gas industry to ‘make Britain more energy independent’

Dutch authorities say high winds in the North Sea are delaying efforts to tow a burning cargo ship carrying thousands of new cars to safety off the coast of the Netherlands

The Dutch government says that salvage crews are preparing to tow a car-carrying cargo ship that has been burning for days in the North Sea to a new anchor point after flames and smoke on board subsided