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

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 ...

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

Previous research has shown that the physical structure of an oil rig can provide shelter for fish and molluscs ... which records more than 700 surveys of the sea floor surrounding oil and gas ...

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 ...

A man who works out in the North Sea has shared some fascinating insights into the realities of the job. Jordan Morgan, known as @jordanwelness_911 on Instagram, works on an oil rig and reportedly ...

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 ...

What is the role of dissolved organic matter in the deep sea? In a study relating to this ... activity that is known for its natural oil discharge sites. Here, microorganisms use the seeping ...