An offshore worker can earn from £5,000 to £15,000 ... farms for the next two years before getting a contract on an oil rig. My skills were more in demand on oil rigs than on wind farms.

I had an interesting conversation last week with one of our readers, Sal from Louisiana, who works on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf. This is certainly a "dirty job" but I was impressed by how ...

U.S. energy firms this week added oil and natural gas rigs for the first time in three weeks, energy services firm Baker ...

Ojeidiran said all the hostages were staff of a company known as Trident, contracted by Shell to work on the rig. Oil company employees and installations in the Niger Delta are frequently attacked ...

A 'drunk' oil rig worker was forced off a flight by police officers after turning aggressive when asked to move from his business class seat for being too loud. Shaun Hewitt, 33, used his ...

Kevin Morgan, 62, was reportedly driving the vehicle when he smashed into the concrete barrier on a motorway flyover in Lopburi.

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Five Mexican oil workers were robbed and beaten by gun-toting “pirates” on a rig Feb. 14 in the Bay of Campeche, the state-run oil company workers union said.

U.S. energy firms this week kept the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating unchanged, energy services firm Baker ...

WARRI, Nigeria (Reuters) -- The international workers among the 165 hostages freed Friday from offshore Nigerian oil rigs headed back to their home countries Saturday after being detained for nearly a ...

An oil rig worker from Stirling has been killed in a horror quad bike crash in Thailand. Kevin Morgan, 62, was reportedly driving the vehicle when he smashed into the concrete barrier on a ...