Ukrainian aerial drones struck a Russian oil platform in the Caspian Sea for the first time on Thursday, halting production ...

An increasingly hot-button issue, oil rigs have become the physical embodiment of larger economic and environmental debates, garnering praise from conservative politicians and the ire of environmental ...

Oil rig jobs can seem very appealing in any job market, but there are a number of harsh realities to working on them that ...

In March 1980, the Alexander Kielland oil platform capsized in the North Sea after a support brace snapped from a cracked weld that engineers had already flagged as weak. Within 30 minutes, the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Extracting oil from the ocean floor requires a deep-sea rig setup with some of the most powerful machinery on the planet today: from motorized ...

David Callahan is one of a few hundred people who are deep-sea oil rig divers, and he can’t imagine doing anything else Meredith Wilshere is a Society and Culture writer at PEOPLE. Her work has ...

Transocean (NYSE:RIG) operates a fleet of offshore drilling rigs, providing services mainly to oil and gas companies seeking to access reserves beneath deep or challenging waters. Its rigs include ...

On a North Sea oil rig several years ago, an engineer noticed a strange phenomenon. A cloud of insects would descend from the sky and land on the upper reaches of the platform. There were thousands of ...

Ukraine targets Lukoil oil rig and Russian patrol ship in Caspian Sea drone strike, escalating attacks on Moscow’s oil ...

In the North Sea — between the United Kingdom, Norway and Denmark — thousands of flies swarmed an oil rig. Engineer Craig Hannah noticed... Why thousands of flies are on an oil rig in the middle of ...

Ocean Rig has been awarded a letter of intent (LoI) by fellow Norwegian companies Statoil and Norsk Hydro covering the sinking of three exploration wells in the Barents Sea. The LoI also includes an ...