Terry Vine / Getty Images Topside (or topsides) refers to the above-water portions of an offshore oil rig, or any parts which are above the waterline. The structures that make up the topsides are ...

U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating for a fifth week in a row to the lowest ...

The entire topside—the above-water portion ... National Artificial Reef Plan, which allowed oil platform operators to donate decommissioned rigs to states as “artificial reefs.” ...

An enormous oil rig platform has arrived in Teesside for dismantling. Weighing 31,000 metric tonnes, the Brent Charlie topside platform has been delivered to Able Seaton Port, in Hartlepool.

The Vietnam – Russia oil and gas joint venture Vietsovpetro said on September 11 that it completed the installation of the wellhead platform topside block of the BK-23 drilling rig at Lot 09.1 of Bach ...

The Brent Charlie topside oil rig is towed on the Allseas Iron Lady cargo barge into the mouth of the River Tees as it heads for dismantling, July 19. The 32,000-tonne Brent Charlie is the last ...

US Drillers Add Oil and Gas Rigs for First Time in Four Weeks, Baker Hughes Says By Scott DiSavino (Reuters) - U.S. energy firms this week added oil and natural gas rigs for the first time in four ...

For more than a decade, Chris Pleasant didn’t want to talk about his near-death experience on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, not even with his wife. He was a supervisor on the Transocean-owned ...

North American drilling activity posted an increase for the week ended May 31, with 600 rotary rigs working in the US and another 128 in Canada, Baker Hughes officials reported Friday. Oil drove ...

That fact would’ve sounded absurd just a decade ago, and even more absurd that we’re producing all that oil with far fewer rigs. As the Energy Information Administration reported Tuesday ...