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The deepest offshore oil well was over 35,000 feet by the Deepwater Horizon, and the Maersk Voyager operated in the deepest ...
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?
An increasingly hot-button issue, oil rigs have become the physical embodiment ... and placing the detached reef onto its side, or severing the platform roughly 85 feet below sea level and placing ...
Port Fourchon at the southern tip of Lafourche Parish is the go-to service station for offshore energy production, serving as ...
This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Kailem Donovan, an offshore rope access rigger who works on oil rigs in the North and Baltic seas. It has been edited for length ...
Because Holly is already owned by the state, not an oil company, its transition could illuminate how to evaluate the fate of rigs worldwide based on science, not politics. Most of the offshore oil ...
He was a supervisor on the Transocean-owned rig when it exploded 40 miles off the southeast Louisiana coast in 2010, killing 11 of his crewmates in the worst offshore oil disaster in U.S. history.
BEIRUT — An offshore drilling rig arrived at its destination ... would be based on the Lebanese side, but Israel would be compensated for gas extracted from its side of the line under a ...
FILE - A plume of smoke rises from fires on BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico ... bird struggles against the oil-slicked side of the HOS Iron Horse supply vessel ...