Speaking of design, as notable as offshore oil rig construction is, it's nothing without solid blueprints behind it. Designing such structures is no small feat. Long before offshore oil rigs are ...

the companies who own and operate oil rigs, face a maze of employment law whether their operations are onshore or offshore, big or small. The equal employment guarantees of federal law apply to ...

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.

On crowded platforms perched above the icy waters of Cook Inlet, a small army labors to keep up the extraction of fossil fuels.

The total rig count rose to 764 this week—243 rigs higher than the rig count this time in 2021. Oil rigs in the United States rose by 3 this week, to 602. Gas rigs slipped 2, to 160 ...

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 ...