Equinor Energy AS has been granted a permit by the Norwegian Offshore Directorate to drill in the North Sea. Exploration ...

The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) has granted Equinor a drilling permit for two wildcat wells in the North Sea, to be ...

U.S. oil producer Hess Corp has decided to withdraw from Suriname's offshore Block 59, the South American nation's state oil ...

Norwegian shipbuilder Vard has completed the upgrades on Island Offshore’s well intervention vessel Island Wellsaver.The ...

As it stands, roughly 12,000 offshore oil and gas rigs pepper the world's coastlines. These platforms typically operate for between 20 and 40 years.

Long before offshore oil rigs are put together, much less sent out into the open ocean, they're expertly designed. Schematics are drawn up, and in many cases, engineers will take these plans and ...

Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), which oversees offshore oil leasing, previously estimated that the 2024 rule — the first such overhaul in the past 20 years — would raise ...

This repetitive footage from the 1980s offers a detailed and consistent view of an oil platform stationed in the water. The imagery captures the towering structure from multiple angles ...

She arrived in 1975, when her husband took a job in the highly profitable offshore oil industry. When it came to oil platform ecology, “the Gulf of Mexico hadn’t been studied,” Bull says.

I work on an oil rig. It has lonely moments, but every rig I've been on is like a family. As told to Claire Turrell Oil and Gas Drilling Rig over Offshore Platform Getty Oct 10, 2024, 4:58 AM PT ...