How could a single wave destroy one of the most advanced offshore rigs ever built? This documentary explores the 1982 sinking of the Ocean Ranger, the catastrophic chain of failures that followed, and ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Officials are saying that an explosion on an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana has the potential to be a major spill. The Coast Guard is still searching for the 11 workers missing ...

'It's at the bottom of the sea.' Rescue crews, try to save the sinking P-36 oil rig on Monday about 80 miles off the coast of Macae, Brazil. The Brazilian Petrobras oil company said the rig sank in ...

Egypt’s top oil and gas official held a meeting on Tuesday with Ades Drilling, the Saudi Arabian owner of a jack-up barge that capsized in the Gulf of Suez last week with fatal consequences, to review ...

Julianne Geiger is a veteran editor, writer and researcher for Oilprice.com, and a member of the Creative Professionals Networking Group. The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in ...