Explore what topside means for offshore rigs. Understand its structure, key components, and importance in oil extraction ...

Oil companies like Shell continue to drill, according to The New York Times, because "the world will continue to need oil." Countries and companies have pledged to get the use of dirty energy sources ...

ASHEVILLE - Geotechnical drilling operations for preliminary work on the Interstate 26 Connector project will begin along the French Broad River between the Jeff Bowen Bridge and Pearson Road Bridge ...

Modern offshore oil rigs are engineering wonders designed to accommodate massive crews and operate in some of the most hostile environments on Earth. As the demand for oil drives exploration into ...

The Tyonek platform, right, in Cook Inlet, is currently home to the region's only offshore drilling rig, which is to the left of the platform. Both assets are owned by Hilcorp, the inlet's dominant ...

Shell and others say they plan to drill for oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico in part because doing so releases fewer greenhouse gases than drilling on land. By Ivan Penn Reporting from Shell’s ...

SCOTT THUMAN: Just outside of New Orleans we board the helicopter. Our destination: 140 miles out, into what’s now called the Gulf of America, to one of the oil and natural gas industry’s most ...

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States rose by 1 this week, according to new data that ...

May 13 (Reuters) - An offshore gas drilling platform sank off the coast of Venezuela on Thursday, less than a month after a rig sank off the coast of Louisiana and left thousands of barrels of crude ...

PBR halts drilling at the Morpho well after a fluid leak, suspending Foz do Amazonas Basin operations for up to 15 days under ...