The clutch slipped on the boat's launch mechanism during the work on the Brent Alpha on Saturday morning. No-one was injured and the lifeboat was recovered from the sea on Sunday morning.

Two Greenpeace campaigners have boarded Shell's Brent Alpha platform in the North Sea. A protester from the environmental group has also climbed on to a concrete leg of the decommissioned Brent ...

Oil prices continued its steady move higher on Wednesday, up around 1.27% at the time of writing. This is a slight surprise ...

As with the previous platforms - the Brent Delta, Brent Bravo and Brent Alpha - was hauled in by the giant heavy lift vessel, the Allseas Pioneering Spirit. The final stage saw the cargo barge ...