I had an interesting conversation last week with one of our readers, Sal from Louisiana, who works on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf. This is certainly a "dirty job" but I was impressed by how these ...

As Landman season 2 continues, I imagine that the fallout from the gas leak will continue to see impacts on both the workers’ ...

In 2023, Texas Tech became a pioneer in giving petroleum engineering students hands-on experience by raising the mast of the first full-scale operational oil rig on a university campus nationwide. A ...

The MX-1 oil rig, located about 2 miles off the coast of Peru, was decommissioned in 2011 and became a thriving artificial reef, according to a study. Photo by Denisse Sotomayor Screen grab of photo ...

Off the coast Peru, at the junction of the cold nutrient-rich Humboldt Current and the warm Equatorial Counter Current, a decommissioned oil drilling platform stands quiet and idle. Beneath the ...

Oil rig worker Christian Jones has won £1 million - and the first thing he did was quit his job. The 52-year-old was at home on a Friday night and wasn't looking forward to going offshore for a month ...

The well could be spilling up to 8,000 barrels of crude oil a day, the Coast Guard said, and the rig carried 700,000 gallons of diesel fuel. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry said crews saw a one mile ...

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO - The deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and shot up the drill column, expanding quickly as it ...