The Ukrainian Navy has wiped out an elite Russian special forces unit stationed on the Syvash drilling platform in the Black Sea. Source: Ukrainian Navy Details: The Navy reported that in addition to killing the Russian troops,

In October 2007, a massive storm with 70-knot winds slammed into a Mexican oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The jack-up rig collided with a nearby wellhead, rupturing valves and releasing a deadly cloud of gas.

The free, virtual reality experience is hosted by the environmental group Orange County Coastkeeper as a way to educate the public about the thriving sea life underneath Southern California's offshore oil platforms. The future of the coast's 27 aging oil ...

For many years, oil analysis has been a crucial tool for routine maintenance and cost prevention on oil rigs. Equipment failures on these rigs pose significant safety risks and can lead to missed production targets, which are quickly felt. The remote ...

Oil and gas rigs in United Kingdom waters of the North Sea could be forced to convert over to green energy or low-carbon fuels, or either face closure or getting banned from opening new platforms, in an effort to reduce emissions, according to reports.

(NEW ORLEANS) — A desperate search for a missing Louisiana worker has continued into Monday after an explosion occurred on a large oil rig Sunday night, authorities confirmed to ABC News. The Kenner Police Department said it fielded a flurry of 911 calls ...

Hilcorp’s Spurr platform, photographed last year, has not produced any oil or gas since 1992. (Nathaniel Herz for Alaska Public Media) The Spurr oil platform stopped pumping crude from beneath the silty ocean water outside Anchorage in 1992. The platform ...

U.S. oil and gas producers are unlikely to radically increase production under president-elect Donald Trump as companies remain focused on capital discipline, a senior executive at Exxon Mobil said."We're not going to see anybody in 'drill, baby, drill ...

Debbie Clark from Great Yarmouth, who lost her father Ted Laxon said, it had "never been about the money" but compensation after "all this time" was an "admission of mistreatment of all involved". Ms Laxon also said getting the compensation would be honouring a promise to her mother who died last year "heartbroken to the end".