Offshore oil rigs are like small towns out on the water. Here's how many people you can expect to find out there, and how long they stay before a break.

Any offshore oil rig that extends past 1500 meters is considered to be an ultra-deepwater production facility. However, that's still nowhere close to the deepest man has explored in the ocean.

Hardcopy Exclusive: Driller takes inquiry rap on rig death. A FATAL accident inquiry at Aberdeen Sheriff Court into the death of assistant derrickman Gordon Moffat on the rig Santa Fe Magellan has ...

Quaise Energy has moved out of the lab and into the field with the first demonstration of its novel drilling technique on a full-scale oil rig just outside of Houston. The company, formed only ...

T here's no denying just what a time commitment working on an oil rig can be, nor how isolated one might feel while doing so. The latter in particular comes with the territory at times: The ...