They're the hulking hardware of a fossil fuel industry being blamed for climate change. But now scientists have discovered that North Sea oil rigs are being used as migratory stop-off points by ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Extracting oil from the ocean floor requires a deep-sea rig setup with some of the most powerful machinery on the planet today: from motorized ...

The price of crude oil is steadily declining, leading to the abandonment of oil rigs in Scotland and other countries. Massive ...

The UK government will allow oil and gas drillers to develop new fields next to existing ones, in a move ministers argued was ...

North Sea operators are set to spend more on demolishing disused oil and gas platforms than on finding new reserves, a report ...

Hurricanes can lead to a destructive domino effect. Hurricane Ida left a trail of destruction after slamming into the Gulf Coast, but offshore the Category 4 storm left something else in its wake: oil ...

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 ...

Shares of energy companies fell slightly as oil futures hovered around the psychologically significant $60 per barrel. Norwegian oil major Equinor made two new discoveries of gas and condensate in the ...

Three fishermen cruise past the mouth of the Mississippi River. Alice in Chains blares from an overhead speaker, blending with the slap of waves against the boat's hull. Offshore oil platforms grow ...

Chinese oil rigs in waters claimed by Taiwan have stirred controversy in recent days, drawing a sharp protest from Taipei, with some analysts saying the structures are part of a strategy to normalize ...