Working on an oil rig has always been my dream job ... I got my first job as a rigger on an offshore wind farm in Aberdeen. A contract offshore worker will work three weeks on and three weeks ...

The knock-on effects of the Energy Profits Levy have seen spend delayed on decommissioning across the industry, which is ...

This week 40 years ago (March 7, 1985), The Stage spoke to an oil-rig worker turned ballet dancer. “A 21-year-old oil-rig ...

Since then, drilling for oil and gas has been one of Aberdeen's biggest industries. People operate oil and gas rigs, huge platforms out at sea that drill into reservoirs deep underground.

Well-Safe Solutions is set to cut around 45 onshore positions, blaming the “knock-on effects” of the Energy Profits Levy. The ...

Wood Group operates across 60 countries and has about 35,000 staff in total, and carries out engineering and consulting work on oil rigs, among other things. READ MORE: Aberdeen college investigating ...

Aberdeen became the oil capital of Europe and an estimated half a million jobs were created by the industry over the decades. The world's worst offshore disaster was on the Piper Alpha rig in 1988 ...

The firm, Well-Safe Solutions based out of Aberdeen, employs around 400 people. It has announced it will downsize its ...