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 ...

On the northern edge of Aberdeen, by the river Don, amid sprawling post-war council estates, helicopters thunder overhead at regular intervals, travelling between Britain’s busiest heliport in Dyce ...

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.

A spokesperson for Aberdeen-headquartered Well-Safe Solutions ... which is affecting both our rig and engineering activity,” the spokesperson told Rigzone. “It’s with regret that Well ...

Steve Beedie, a mental health advocate based in Aberdeen, worked on offshore rigs across the world for fifteen years after ...

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 ...

Well-Safe Solutions is set to cut around 45 onshore positions, blaming the “knock-on effects” of the Energy Profits Levy. The Aberdeen-headquartered well decommissioning business stated that there may ...

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 ...