The Latest Breaking News from North Sea

When John and Anne Darwin fooled the world, and their sons, into thinking he had died in the North Sea, it was one of the UK’s most shocking crimes

Pressure on chancellor to scrap next month’s rise in National Insurance ahead of today’s mini-Budget

Company is reviewing decision to withdraw from North Sea project because of high oil price, report claims

The head of the UK’s Oil and Gas Authority, rebranded as the North Sea Transition Authority, said: ‘Businesses have made record profits from high oil and gas prices and we want them to honour the deal now by putting a large chunk towards substantial energy transition projects’

A software problem that blocked all ship traffic in the main channel between the Baltic and the North Sea on Sunday was not a hacker attack and has been fixed, a spokesperson for Germany's Kiel Canal Waterways and Shipping Authority said on Monday.

Archeologists worry rapid expansion of North Sea projects could remove access to rare Mesolithic remains

Prime minister argues it would be ‘crazy’ to stop production – allowing Putin to ‘blackmail’ UK

‘Pandering to fringe elements’: Cabinet minister Oliver Dowden’s comments branded ‘frankly unbelievable’

But Tory chairman Oliver Dowden said any suggestion politicians had breached the rules needed to be ‘taken seriously’.

The UK has been handed a pathway out of the energy crisis created by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, with a new major gas field being discovered under the North Sea.

GMB says it's 'morally repugnant' to reach net zero by winding down domestic industry while relying on gas from 'despotic regimes'