A commemorative service will take place on July 6th at 1pm in Aberdeen’s Hazlehead Park, where Scotland’s Piper Alpha memorial is located.

The central processing platform for the phase I development of Kenli 10-2 oilfield has successfully completed float-over installation, breaking records for both size and weight of offshore oil and ...

With a height of 22.8 meters and a design weight exceeding 20,000 tonnes, it represents the heaviest and largest offshore oil and gas platform in the Bohai Sea.

Any offshore oil rig that extends past 1500 meters is considered to be an ultra-deepwater production facility. However, that's still nowhere close to the deepest man has explored in the ocean.

Welcome to the world’s biggest offshore oil rig platform,a colossal engineering feat where people live, eat, sleep, and drill hundreds of miles from land.In this video, we take you deep inside ...

Fossil Fuels Fifteen Years After Largest U.S. Offshore Oil Spill, Researchers Reveal Most-Polluting Rigs Satellite imagery shows the worst sites worldwide for oil slicks and methane emissions.

Most of the offshore oil platforms that have ever been built were installed in the Gulf of Mexico—more than 7,000 since 1947. More than 5,000 of those have since been removed.

The largest offshore oil production unit installed in Brazil to date—the Almirante Tamandaré, or Búzios 7—has started operating in the Búzios field, in the Santos basin, some 180km off the ...

Offshore oil rigs are like small towns out on the water. Here's how many people you can expect to find out there, and how long they stay before a break.

Note: I have covered Transocean Ltd. or "Transocean" (NYSE:RIG) previously, so investors should view this as an update to my earlier articles on the company.. Two weeks ago, leading offshore ...

Cnooc Ltd., China’s largest offshore oil and gas producer, said first half profits rose on higher output and rising crude prices. Net income for the six months through June was 79.7 billion yuan ...