The answer is Goliat, a mammoth, beer-glass-shaped, floating oil platform that’s set to become the northernmost in the world. Last week the 65,000-ton rig arrived for commissioning near the ...

On crowded platforms, a small army labors to keep up the extraction of fossil fuels from the state’s oldest producing oil and ...

A gaggle of companies are searching the US Midwest for underground hydrogen fuel produced by a billion-year-old split in the ...

China has initiated a high-stakes mission, employing the Meng Xiang vessel to drill into the Earth's crust, aiming to reach ...

China is going full Jules Verne as it prepares to go where no drill has gone before. As part of its Deep Ocean Drilling ...

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 ...

Total rig count falls six to 578, oil down five, gas steady Gulf of Mexico rig count drops to lowest since September 2021 Permian shale rig count hits lowest since December 2021 May 9 (Reuters ...

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 ...

The total U.S. rig count is made up of 483 oil rigs, 99 gas rigs, and five miscellaneous rigs, according to Baker Hughes’ count, which revealed that the U.S. total comprises 527 horizontal rigs ...

April 11 (Reuters) - U.S. energy firms this week cut oil rigs by the most in a week since June 2023, lowering the total oil and natural gas rig count for a third consecutive week, energy services ...

The total U.S. rig count is made up of 480 oil rigs, 100 gas rigs, and six miscellaneous rigs, according to the count, which revealed that the U.S. total comprises 523 horizontal rigs, 50 ...

But the oil wasn’t coming from a leak or some other failure of the rig. Milton Love, a biologist at the Marine Science Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara, explained that it ...