Despite all the talk of replacing oil and gas jobs with others in renewables, there has been very little action ...

Decommissioning oil rigs is an industry in itself. David Innes, a retired head teacher and chairman of an organisation called Aberdeen for a Fairer World, said there were some “really excellent ...

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 ...

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.

French supermajor TotalEnergies has signed a deal with Aberdeen-headquartered Stena Drilling for the charter of the ultra-deepwater drillship Stena DrillMax for a one-well programme offshore Suriname.

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 ...