As brutal winds lash the North Atlantic, the Ocean Ranger—touted as "unsinkable"—is battling the storm. By morning, the world’s largest semi-submersible oil rig is gone, swallowed by the sea. 84 crew ...

Drillers packing up gear, rig count drops, potential signal of tighter oil supply. Investors should watch oil stocks, ...

Much can go wrong during a rig’s evacuation process, especially in worsening tropical storm conditions. It can take days to plug a newly drilled oil well, test the cement seals and “packers ...

Survivors and families of those killed in an oil rig disaster 45 years ago will finally get compensation from the Norwegian ...

Families of British workers killed in an oil rig disaster 45 years ago have welcomed the Norwegian government's decision to ...

A powerful solar storm that swept across Earth on Monday (Feb. 27) forced SpaceX to delay a Starlink launch from Florida and temporarily disrupted operations of several Canadian oil rigs as GPS ...

Official data showed that, as of Thursday, the storm nearly shut in 42% of ... which reported the biggest weekly rise in oil and natural gas rig in a year. The oil and gas rig count rose by ...

US oil and gas rig counts hit their lowest since 2021 as drilling activity slows due to lower prices and market uncertainty.

Even though Hurricane Beryl is predicted to miss most of the offshore oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico ... which increases the risk of storm surge,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

People have been left gobsmacked after learning how oil rigs are built and fixed to the ocean floor. Jasper Storm, who specialises in engineering, has taken to YouTube to explain the complicated ...

But the oil wasn’t coming from a leak or some other failure of the rig. Milton Love ... When these creatures die or are dislodged by a storm, they sink to the feet of the gargantuan structures ...