Transocean Ltd. RIG is one of the most well-known players in offshore drilling, focused on operating mobile rigs that help ...

On crowded platforms, a small army labors to keep up the extraction of fossil fuels from the state’s oldest producing oil and ...

Rigs have a hoisting system to raise and lower the drill pipe. Safety measures, such as a blowout preventer that is usually fitted to the top of the well on the ocean floor, can help control the ...

The premise of a jackup rig is that it is self-elevating; here, the legs are stationed on ocean floor and the drilling equipment is jacked up above the water's surface. Providing a very stable ...

Offshore oil rigs have made it possible to collect oil and natural gas from below the ocean's floor, appearing as ... before being moved to the desired drilling location in the ocean.

The Deepwater Horizon Explosion was one of the most devastating environmental disasters in history, but how did it happen and ...

Reyna had come down from the rig floor—a platform about thirty feet off the ground where roughnecks thread pipe segments together as the drill bit devours rock far underfoot—and went to his ...

Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. said equipment on a rig under lease to BP Plc accidentally broke free during a storm and sank to the bottom off the UK coast. No one was injured and no crude leaked ...