Discover the remarkable story of the Petronius oil rig, an engineering marvel situated in the Gulf of Mexico. This video explores the technological innovations and challenges faced during deep-sea oil ...

Off-shore oil drilling currently accounts for over 35% of the world's total oil production, and that number has consistently risen over recent history. While a majority of oil extraction takes place ...

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 ...

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For many years, oil analysis has been a crucial tool for routine maintenance and cost prevention on oil rigs. Equipment failures on these rigs pose significant safety risks and can lead to missed ...

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 ...

Oil and gas rigs in United Kingdom waters of the North Sea could be forced to convert over to green energy or low-carbon fuels, or either face closure or getting banned from opening new platforms, in ...

At this year's OC Fair, one of the most unique rides isn't a ride at all. It's a virtual plunge 100 ft. below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, and under one of California's offshore oil platforms, to ...

Environmental activists partied outside the San Francisco Ferry Building on Friday to celebrate the decommission of a Southern California oil rig. The Center for Biological Diversity called the event ...

That’s, allegedly, a quote attributed to pioneering media mogul Orson Welles. And while Welles was likely talking about limitations with regards to his theatrical pursuits, the saying is applicable to ...

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 ...