Experts say floating barriers, oil-dispersing chemicals, and even giant sponges could be used to hold back the spreading oil. By holding the fuel in one place for long enough, boats and specially ...

More than 30 migrants including two children have been stranded for three days on an oil rig off Tunisia and are in dire need ...

Besides this incident, FPSOs have spilled less than approximately 500 barrels of oil combined. Besides FPSOs, similar floating systems include Floating Storage and Offloading systems (FSOs ...

Onshore rigs in the week that ended on Dec. 6 totaled 572, higher than the prior week's count of 567. In offshore resources, 15 rigs were operating, higher than the week-ago count of 13. U.S. Oil ...

Now, semisubs are the most stable of any floating rig, many times chosen for ... transporting these rigs from location to location is made easier. Some semis are transported via outside vessels ...

(219.7-m) floating production unit left the port of Fos-sur-Mer on the Mediterranean coast of France on March 16 for a voyage of approximately six weeks, to its Nkossa oil field. Located 37 miles ...

The FPSO will remain at the Cascade and Chinook fields, which Murphy operates, in the US Gulf’s Walker Ridge region. BW ...

An armed Venezuelan military vessel intimidated a flotilla of rigs and service vessels being used by ExxonMobil to produce oil.