If you've ever seen an offshore drilling rig, you know they're absolutely massive. But are these huge rigs, which are essential for oil production, built?

Oil has been powering the global economy for over a century, and its extraction is a highly complex and challenging process, ...

Sable Offshore Corp. announced that it resumed oil production at Platform Harmony on Monday, the 10th anniversary of the ...

The platforms’ abundance is due to both its location as well as its idiosyncratic design. Unlike other oil platforms, Eureka’s complex shape offers hiding spots for marine life, and access to ...

The people of Ursa, Shell’s $1.45 billion oil-and-gas platform, live 65 miles offshore, in an environment that is demanding and dangerous, and that could drive them crazy. Here’s how they work ...

Project captures CO₂ produced during oil extraction, compresses it and injects it deep beneath the seabed to enhance oil ...

An oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico ... Marine Science says rigs should be assessed case by case. Differences in rig design, nearby currents, depths, and marine life make a one-size-fits-all approach ...

China has built the world's largest offshore oil platform for Saudi Arabia's Marjan field. Chevron's new high-pressure extraction technology signals continued investment in oil exploration.

Hilcorp’s Spurr platform, photographed last year, has not produced any oil or gas since 1992. (Nathaniel Herz for Alaska Public Media) The Spurr oil platform stopped pumping crude from beneath ...