A new Chinese built oil rig, the massive Scarabeo 9, is slowly making its way toward Cuba with arrival expected in December. Owned and operated by Italian oil company ENI, it will be used to drill ...

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I don’t know if the oil rigs off the Santa Barbara coast today have saved any endangered species, but I do know that the wind and solar farms of the California desert are killing and threatening ...

Recent California oil spills—like the 25,000 gallons that leaked from a broken pipeline connected to a rig—have left many environmental groups wary of any oil infrastructure, regardless of ...

Oil rigs around the world are habitats for marine species. ... Love and his colleagues wanted to know if the contamination from cuttings extended to the water column around the shell mound.

Limited pleaded guilty to safety failings at a hearing at Aberdeen Sheriff Court on June 12, and were issued with a £300,000 fine, the HSE said ...

The controversy over a potential exploratory oil rig in Calhoun County represents a high-profile test of the state's atrophied environmental muscles.

Offshore oil rigs are like small towns out on the water. Here's how many people you can expect to find out there, and how long they stay before a break.

U.S. oil production has been holding at or near record highs since October, topping the previous peak from 2020, even though the number of active domestic oil drilling rigs is down by nearly 30% ...

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.

Myra P. Saefong, assistant global markets editor, has covered the commodities sector for MarketWatch for 20 years. She has spent the bulk of her years at the company writing the daily Futures ...

Peter Berg's Deepwater Horizon combined one of the biggest sets of all time with high-tech fire created from practical and digital effects to produce an Oscar-nominated disaster film.