The Helldivers, a tight-knit band of adrenaline seekers that has remained strong for over 60 years, recently held its annual ...

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

Under industry standards, English is the default language of the sea. An oil rig worker onshore who is fired by the tool pusher -- the installation or rig manager -- will find that his ...

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 ...

An increasingly hot-button issue, oil rigs have become the physical embodiment of larger economic and environmental debates, garnering praise from conservative politicians and the ire of ...

Offshore oil rigs have made it possible to collect oil and natural gas from below the ocean's floor, appearing as massive megastructures in the middle of open water. Given their sheer size and ...

A fire ripped through an oil rig with 176 workers on board in Brazil. The flames broke out on the PCH-1 oil platform in the Campos dos Goytacazes Basin, off the coast of Rio de Janeiro ...

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States fell this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, following a 1 rig dip in the prior week.

Here, the ferries that shuttle workers to oil rigs in the nearby Gulf of Mexico periodically halt service due to nonpayment. The Hotel Llirre, which exclusively houses oil workers, sits mostly empty.

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Five Mexican oil workers were robbed and beaten by gun-toting “pirates” on a rig Feb. 14 in the Bay of Campeche, the state-run oil company workers union said.

General Hydrocarbons Limited (GHL) has faulted a claim of diversion of oil mining proceeds made against ... when the drilling rig, Blackford Dolphin, ran out of fuel, food, water and other ...