In the North Sea — between the United Kingdom, Norway and Denmark — thousands of flies swarmed an oil rig. Engineer Craig Hannah noticed they'd stay still on the rig for hours, suddenly taking off all ...

The price of crude oil is steadily declining and in Scotland as in many other countries, this means the abandonment of oil rigs. To disassemble the machines is not just costly, it also might prove to ...

Chief, rounded off a recent magisterial survey of the great museums of the Middle East with a call for a museum of oil. Now I swear we have not been colluding on this, but great minds do think alike: ...