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

A fire on an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico has been extinguished, the owner of the rig said Thursday. The platform, about 100 miles south of the Louisiana coast, exploded Thursday ...

Hilcorp’s Spurr platform, photographed last year, has not produced any oil or gas since 1992. (Nathaniel Herz for Alaska Public Media) The Spurr oil platform stopped pumping crude from beneath the ...

A specialized unit called a jackup rig, at left, drilled a natural gas well last year at Hilcorp’s Tyonek platform, right, in Cook Inlet. (Nathaniel Herz for Alaska Public Media) There are 17 offshore ...

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 ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Along the rocks at Ingleside on the Bay, a platform that is part of Chevron's $5.7 billion dollar 'Anchor' project could be seen moving slowly, but surely through the ship ...

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

No offense, but I am amazed at the lack of imagination that exists in corporations and government in Alaska. What a surprise to see a front-page article in the ADN on May 8 about the played-out ...

In the Arabian Gulf, some of the region s richest pockets of marine life are forming in unexpected places: around the steel ...

A gas leak at Petrobras' P-40 offshore oil platform in Brazil's Campos basin on Thursday has led to the preventive shutdown ...

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The Spurr oil platform stopped pumping crude from beneath the silty ocean water outside Anchorage in 1992. The platform, built in Cook Inlet during Alaska’s first oil boom in the 1960s, was losing ...