Offshore oil rigs are some of the largest structures found on the water, but are they just floating out there? How do they ...

The deepest offshore oil well was over 35,000 feet by the Deepwater Horizon, and the Maersk Voyager operated in the deepest ...

BP-Leased Oil Rig Pipe Drops to Sea Floor in North Atlantic Diamond Offshore says no environmental impacts from ‘incident’ Rig operator investigating cause of accident in rough weather ...

Once a deposit of oil has been found deep under the ... Some types of production rig are attached to the sea floor via cables and anchors; some are fixed using tall towers; and other rigs have ...

Eureka is an offshore oil rig that pumps oil out of the sea floor and pipes it to refineries on the California coast. Soon, the rig will end its operations, and it's unclear what will happen to ...

An oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico ... To find pockets of oil and gas under the sea floor, energy companies use loud air guns to create seismic maps. Once a large deposit is found, rigs (also ...

Kailem Donovan, 37, from Middlesborough, England, works on oil rigs in ... I arrived on the rig for the first time, I was amazed by this huge structure in the middle of the sea.

He kept hearing about this secretive city, sprawled like floating, rusting tentacles across the Caspian Sea ... 1940s, oil workers landed on a tiny island and built a drilling rig and a small ...

Unlike the more commonly-known shallow water coral, deep-sea ... oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, it killed 11 people, injured 17 and spewed oil from its wellhead on the ocean floor for ...

Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. said equipment on a rig under lease to BP Plc accidentally ... a spokesman for the oil company, said in an email. He referred inquiries about the vessel to Diamond ...