China National Offshore Oil Corporation operates an offshore drilling rig in an oil field in the Bohai Sea. CHINA DAILY In a scene from Deepwater Horizon — a film based on the 2010 offshore oil spill ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Kailem Donovan, an offshore rope access rigger who works on oil rigs in the North and Baltic seas. It has been edited for length ...

Migrants left stranded on the lower decks of a gas rig adrift in the Mediterranean Sea have made an urgent appeal for help as authorities from several countries hesitated to launch a rescue operation.

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States held steady this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, following a 1-rig decrease in the ...

(Reuters) -U.S. energy firms this week added oil and natural gas rigs for a fourth week in a row to the highest level since June, energy services firm Baker Hughes said in its closely followed report ...