Off the coast of Nigeria, one of the world’s largest oil production ships, called the Bonga, was taking oil from a field on the ocean floor and transferring it to a tanker ship. Such transfers are ...

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Shell has been warned by the UK North Sea safety watchdog after a section of well casing weighing more than three tonnes plummeted 15 metres on the Brent Charlie platform in the northern North Sea.

Shell has rejected accusations by the Unite trade union that lay-offs at the Mossmorran gas plant in Fife and at the St Fergus gas terminal near Peterhead in Scotland will create “critical safety ...