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Norwegian labour unions have agreed to a wage deal, averting a strike at floating offshore oil and gas drilling rigs that ...
Norwegian workers employed on offshore drilling rigs will go on strike on June 21 if annual wage talks with employers fail, ...
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 ...
Modern offshore oil rigs are engineering wonders designed to accommodate massive crews and operate in some of the most hostile environments on Earth. As the demand for oil drives exploration into ...
The oil and gas rig count, an early indicator of future output, fell by four to 559 in the week to June 6, the lowest since November 2021. Oil rigs fell by nine to 442 this week, while gas rigs ...
Ever wondered what it’s like to live and work on a massive structure floating in the middle of the ocean? Welcome to the world’s biggest offshore oil rig platform,a colossal engineering feat ...
(Reuters) -U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating for a sixth week in a row for the first time since September 2023, energy services firm Baker Hughes said in ...
The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States fell yet again this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, following a 3-rig decrease last ...
The total U.S. rig count is made up of 465 oil rigs, 98 gas rigs, and three miscellaneous rigs, according to Baker Hughes’ count, which revealed that the U.S. total comprises 511 horizontal rigs ...