Rigzone looks back at a rough year in oil and gas for the industry’s workers in northwest Europe. Life has been difficult for many of Europe’s oil and gas workers during the past year. Here, Rigzone reviews the many lows – as well as a few highs – that the oil and gas industry of northwest Europe experienced during 2015. Exploration Activity Down Given the low price of oil, it is unsurprising that the level of exploration activity in the North Sea remains at a very low level. At the half-year stage, there had been just seven exploration wells drilled in the UK zone of the North Sea, suggesting that exploration activity in the offshore UK sector in 2015 would be about the same as that for 2014, when only 14 exploration wells were drilled. In the summer, industry body Oil & Gas UK said the UK government needed […]