Oil-drilling technology is constantly improving, and some rigs combine elements from different models to achieve specific abilities. But in general, the major types of offshore oil rigs include ...

Offshore oil rigs are some of the largest structures found on the water, but are they just floating out there? How do they stay in place? Here's what we know.

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

Drilling Template Offshore oil drilling is an oil extraction technique ... with a lower hull that can be filled or emptied of water. However, this type of rig does not contact the lake floor ...

Rigs can include several types of offshore drilling facilities including ... from flooding rain and destructive winds. On Tuesday, oil companies started to evacuate personnel ahead of Rafael ...

FourPhase, a solids and production performance specialist for the oil and gas industry, has secured a master service ...

Scientists analyzed whole-body fish samples taken from oil-and-gas production platforms and natural sites ... were relatively consistent at both types of location. A recent study by UC Santa ...

The Spurr oil platform stopped pumping crude from beneath the silty ocean water outside Anchorage in 1992. The platform, built in Cook Inlet during Alaska’s first oil boom in the 1960s ...