I had an interesting conversation last week with one of our readers, Sal from Louisiana, who works on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf. This is certainly a "dirty job" but I was impressed by how ...

Historic swell slams California before Christmas, 2024; Huntington Beach outrigger canoe crew surfs massive waves at oil ...

Platform Holly, an oil rig stationed two miles off the Goleta coast, has made a shift in its operations. For the first time since its establishment in the 1960s, the platform has been disconnected ...

President Biden has permanently placed off limits significant portions of the country's outer continental shelf from future ...

Providing a very stable drilling environment, in comparison to other types of offshore ... derrick is positioned over it. While exploration wells can be drilled with drilling slot jackups, the rig ...

Truly what it sounds like, a drillship is a marine vessel that's been modified to drill oil and ... from other offshore drilling units by their easy mobility. While semisubmersible rigs can ...

An offshore oil platform that was being towed from Scotland to Turkey has run aground near a beach off Tunisia's northern city of Bizerte, AFP reporters saw.

The search for Phillip is concentrated in and around the derrick which ... Trinmar to drill for oil and began operating two years later. It is the largest offshore rig asset of Well Services ...