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 ...

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 ...

The two most unique offshore oil rigs are subsea systems and spar platforms. Subsea systems are, as you may guess, below the water line and sit on the sea floor. Using a moveable rig, the wells ...

Offshore oil rigs are some of the largest structures on the ocean, they can operate at incredible depths and drill deeper ...

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.

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 ...

to say nothing of the logistics of building an offshore oil rig in the first place. The long hours spent on duty are often divided up equally just as time on the rig as a whole is. North Sea ...

Offshore oil rigs have made it possible to collect oil and natural gas from below the ocean's floor, appearing as massive ... as notable as offshore oil rig construction is, it's nothing without ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...