The Titan tragedy joins the Byford Dolphin accident in history's most gruesome deep-sea incidents. Officials said the Titan submersible likely suffered a "catastrophic implosion" from a breached hull.

On November 5, 1983, an accident at the Byford Dolphin oil rig, located in the North Sea off the coast of Norway, cost five people their lives in a particularly horrifying way. The incident shocked ...

“It wouldn’t happen that way in real life.” One of the most annoying habits of people really into the “sci” of sci-fi is nitpicking scientific inaccuracies in movies. The truth is, some things just ...

Statoil AS Byford Dolphin drilling rig is under tow again in the Norwegian Sea after being adrift for over 24 hours in heavy seas 140 miles off the northern Norwegian coast. The company also today ...

The Belfast-based yard will carry out the dry docking and special periodic survey of the mobile offshore drilling unit starting early this year, with several modifications and upgrades planned.

Statoil SA has been fined 1 million kroner by the public prosecutor for Rogaland (county), Norway, as a result of a fatal accident on the semisubmersible Byford Dolphin drilling rig Apr. 17, 2002.