Built to withstand extreme conditions and house hundreds of people, the size, complexity, and location of oil rigs makes ...

Oil rigs keep the black gold pumping out of the ground at a steady clip, but who owns the most oil rigs? There's one leader ...

Offshore oil rigs are like small towns out on the water. Here's how many people you can expect to find out there, and how ...

Who fights oil well fires? Because of their intensity and ... Firefighters arrive as quickly as possible and use machinery to remove the damaged rig and associated debris so they can assess ...

Egypt's minister described EDC as a leading player in both onshore and offshore oil and gas well drilling in the region ...

Oil rigs recently hit a record 1,589 and total rigs ... rigs are now needed to drill a given amount of wells, as each new well brings greater knowledge of the formation, and there are now tons ...

In the summer of 2010, panic spread across the region when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded​ in the Gulf.

The rig count in Canada ended the week with 7 additional rigs running. For the week ended May 16, the rig count in Canada ...

The Eirik Raude will shortly begin a six-well drilling campaign operated by Premier Oil and Noble Energy. Two of the rig’s three supply vessels are in the Falklands along with three support ...

(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 said in its closely followed report on ...