Pressure in the oil wells can build up really quickly. By flaring, the excess gas can be burned off safely so the pressure ...

Languages: English. Salvage efforts to tow the burning oil tanker Sounion in the Red Sea have been abandoned, leaving the vessel stranded and at risk of spilling its one million barrels of oil.

Two days later, the rig collapsed. Oil began seeping into the sea ... of the widening slick and fires were set to try to burn it off the sea surface. Various devices were deployed deep below ...

He kept hearing about this secretive city, sprawled like floating, rusting tentacles across the Caspian Sea, far from the ... the world’s oldest offshore oil platform, according to the Guinness ...

Salvage operations for a Houthi-hit oil tanker that’s been burning in the Red Sea for days is set to begin soon, the European Union’s naval force in the region said. Private firms will carry ...