Oil rig jobs can seem very appealing in any job market, but there are a number of harsh realities to working on them that ...

Hilcorp’s Spurr platform, photographed last year, has not produced any oil or gas since 1992. (Nathaniel Herz for Alaska Public Media) The Spurr oil platform stopped pumping crude from beneath the ...

In the North Sea where Denmark once drilled for oil, imported European carbon dioxide will soon be buried under the seabed in ...

Chevron Corp. delivered first oil from the South N’dola platform in Block 0 offshore Angola in December. The start of ...

An increasingly hot-button issue, oil rigs have become the physical embodiment of larger economic and environmental debates, garnering praise from conservative politicians and the ire of environmental ...

Over 50 migrants were headed to the Italian island of Lampedusa Sunday after a charity ship rescued them from an abandoned oil platform in the Mediterranean, where one woman gave birth, according to a ...

A fire on an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico has been extinguished, the owner of the rig said Thursday. The platform, about 100 miles south of the Louisiana coast, exploded Thursday ...

Ukraine's drones have reportedly attacked a Russian oil platform in the Caspian Sea, according to an official from Ukraine's ...

This is the first strike on Russian drilling infrastructure that the Ukrainian military acknowledged officially.

Ukraine’s Defense Forces have struck a Russian military vessel and an offshore drilling platform in the Caspian Sea. — ...

Ukraine's Special Operations Forces (SSO) carried out kamikaze drone strikes on a Russian patrol ship and an oil platform in ...

The Spurr oil platform stopped pumping crude from beneath the silty ocean water outside Anchorage in 1992. The platform, built in Cook Inlet during Alaska’s first oil boom in the 1960s, was losing ...