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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. said equipment on a rig under lease to BP Plc accidentally broke free during a storm and sank to ... a spokesman for the oil company, said in an email.

A helicopter blade “narrowly missed” an oil rig worker after it broke while they were trying to secure the aircraft to a ...

“Corrosion, storm damage, and environmental exposure ... it could be turned on its head. Already, abandoned oil rigs in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico – among other waters around the ...

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 ...

Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. said equipment on a rig under lease to BP Plc accidentally broke free during a storm and sank to the bottom off the UK coast. No one was injured and no crude leaked ...