The upper reaches of the fixed platforms feature a deck with space for living quarters, the drilling rig itself, and facilities for oil production. Out of the seven major types of offshore oil ...

The Byford Dolphin oil rig incident caused the instant death of five men during a routine maintenance operation, while a ...

A horror incident saw a number of oil rig workers killed in a pressurised chamber with an explosion of air causing some men ...

The three divers Lucus, Coward and Giaever - who were resting before their shift - died instantly. According to Storified, ...

A horrifying incident that took place on the Byford Dolphin oil rig on 5 November 1983 resulted in the instant death of five ...

That's one of the items there was that the flooring in the in the living quarters there was not maintained ... also helping us in the marketing of the rig with oil majors, because they know ...

Built in the U.S., the Irish Sea Pioneer was jointly designed by Bollinger Shipyards and Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. to service the oil drill ... provide living and working quarters for ...

Amalie Lundstad, a 29-year-old process engineer working on an offshore oil rig near Bergen, Norway ... and she spends her two-week rotations far from home, living the kind of life that most of us only ...

There'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 Perdido ...