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MEET THE WRITER ‘Women can be complicit in systems of violence, especially in families’: Writer Sophie Mackintosh An interview with the author about her novel ‘The Water Cure’.
The gripping survival thriller web series is set on an isolated oil rig in the North Sea. The story follows the crew of the Kinloch Bravo platform preparing to return to the mainland. But, they ...
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There are no weapons, no way to fight back. You’re just trying to survive and uncover what’s happening while the rig starts to fall apart around you. Everything from the environment to the sound ...
Jack-up rigs are used in shallow waters up to around 500 feet and can drill beyond 5.6 miles. Their long legs — which reach the seabed and elevate the platform above the surface — offer a ...
At latitude 71.3 north, it will be 140 miles closer to the pole than Russia's Prirazlomnoye platform in the eastern Pechora Sea—the only other offshore rig currently producing oil in Arctic waters.
Egyptian authorities say an oil-drilling ship capsized in the Gulf of Suez, killing at least four crewmen and leaving four ...
U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating for a sixth week in a row for the first time since September 2023, energy services firm Baker Hughes said in its ...
Associated gases put oil rigs in a real lose-lose scenario: burning the gas is an environmental hazard of its own, but the alternative — venting the gas directly into the atmosphere — is just ...
The total U.S. rig count is made up of 461 oil rigs, 99 gas rigs, and three miscellaneous rigs, according to Baker Hughes’ count, which revealed that the U.S. total comprises 508 horizontal rigs ...