Speaking of design, as notable as offshore oil rig construction is, it's nothing without solid blueprints behind it. Designing such structures is no small feat. Long before offshore oil rigs are ...

For more than a decade, Chris Pleasant didn’t want to talk about his near-death experience on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, not even with his wife. He was a supervisor on the Transocean-owned ...

To Reyna’s relief, there weren’t any coyote tracks. Rig dogs learn to associate the sounds and smells of oil drilling with friendly scratches and the workers who feed them pieces of sandwiches ...

Julianne Geiger is a veteran editor, writer and researcher for Oilprice.com, and a member of the Creative Professionals Networking Group. The number of total active drilling rigs in the United ...

The oil and gas rig count, an early indicator of future output, fell by six to 578 in the week to May 9. Baker Hughes said this week's decline puts the total rig count down 25, or 4% below this ...

lowering the total oil and natural gas rig count for a third consecutive week, energy services firm Baker Hughes (BKR.O), opens new tab said in its closely followed report on Friday. The oil and ...

Whether it's from an oil rig's mishap or deliberate wartime actions, oil being dumped into the ocean can cause horrible, lasting damage to life both under and above the water. Natural ...

NEW ORLEANS — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons of crude gushing into the ocean, the effects of the nation ...

David Callahan is one of a few hundred people who are deep-sea oil rig divers, and he can’t imagine doing anything else Meredith Wilshere is a Society and Culture writer at PEOPLE. Her work has ...

In the summer of 2010, panic spread across the region when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf, causing 134 million gallons to gush into the water. CBS News covered the spill for ...