Deep sea corals that colonised oil and gas platforms in the North Sea have been moved to a new home on an artificial reef. They have been growing on the legs of subsea structures for decades but are ...

The price of crude oil is steadily declining, leading to the abandonment of oil rigs in Scotland and other countries. Disassembling these massive rigs, which weigh around a thousand tons each, is ...

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has launched a second drone attack on Russian oil rigs in the Caspian Sea, forcing production processes to be suspended. Source: Ukrainska Pravda sources in the ...

Innovators are developing creative ways to give old infrastructure a second life. Credit: Andrey Suslov via Shutterstock. Around the world, thousands of offshore oil and gas platforms are reaching the ...

The families of the 84 rig workers that died tragically in the Ocean Ranger disaster 44 years ago were top of mind for Mike ...

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 ...

A study of migratory hoverflies on a North Sea oil rig has revealed their vital role as long-distance pollen transporters. Researchers studied 121 marmalade hoverflies that landed on an oil rig in the ...

The share price of Transocean Ltd. (NYSE:RIG) surged by 21.34% between February 6 and February 13, 2026, putting it among the ...

One of the survivors of on off-shore oil rig disaster has died, with tributes praising his full and active life and “lively ...