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

Ever wondered what it’s like to live and work on a massive structure floating in the middle of the ocean? Welcome to the ...

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.

Kevin O'Connor spends four weeks at a time working on an offshore oil rig. Meredith Wilshere is a Society and Culture writer at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared on PS, Stylecaster ...

Namibia expects France’s TotalEnergies and Norway’s BW Energy to take final investment decisions on oil projects offshore the African country in late 2026, a senior Namibian official says.

To the shock and outrage of environmental activists and some state and local officials, Sable Offshore Corp. announced that it started extracting oil last week from one of three long-shuttered ...

Rig operators, the companies who own and operate oil rigs, face a maze of employment law whether their operations are onshore or offshore, big or small. The equal employment guarantees of federal ...

For David Callahan, it's his happy place. Callahan, 30, is a commercial diver working on offshore oil rigs. When he gets the call to go on site, he can be there for weeks on end, diving every 12 ...

(Reuters) -U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating to their lowest since January, energy services firm Baker Hughes (NASDAQ:BKR) said in its closely ...

Days after the anniversary, the environmental nonprofit SkyTruth published its latest white paper, naming the top polluting offshore oil rigs in the world while calculating their environmental ...