Any offshore oil rig that extends past 1500 meters is considered to be an ultra-deepwater production facility. However, that's still nowhere close to the deepest man has explored in the ocean.

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

T he number of United States oil and natural gas rigs dropped by 157, or about one-fifth, in 2023, according to new data released Friday by energy services firm Baker Hughes, reversing course ...

Photograph by Joe Platko This marine hot spot is one of 23 oil rigs and pipelines off the coast of California, fifteen of which are active, like Eureka. Constructed between 1967 and 1989 ...

Drillers packing up gear, rig count drops, potential signal of tighter oil supply. Investors should watch oil stocks, ...

There's no denying just what a time commitment working on an oil rig can be, nor how isolated one might feel while doing so. The latter in particular comes with the territory at times: The Perdido ...

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States fell this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, following a 2 rig dip in the prior week.

Kailem Donovan, 37, from Middlesborough, England, works on oil rigs in the North and Baltic seas. Donovan works 12-hour shifts but gets three weeks of holiday every three weeks working on the rig.