They have been growing on subsea structures for decades but are now under threat as old platforms are decommissioned.

You work 12 hours a day, seven days a week, in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. And every day is a crapshoot at the bottom ...

Named 'marmalade hoverflies,' the bugs seemed to have traveled on a long-distance migratory route before arriving at the rig.

A short-haired owl, which found itself stuck on an oil rig after being blown off course during Storm Amy, is being looked ...

A type of insect called the marmalade hoverfly was observed on an oil rig stationed 200 kilometers off the coast of Scotland. More than 100 hoverflies were studied, and 92% of them were carrying ...

On a North Sea oil rig several years ago, an engineer noticed a strange phenomenon. A cloud of insects would descend from the sky and land on the upper reaches of the platform.

A lost owl had to be rescued by helicopter after landing on an oil platform 180 miles out to sea. The short-eared owl was ...

On a North Sea oil rig several years ago, an engineer noticed a strange phenomenon. A cloud of insects would descend from the sky and land on the upper reaches of the platform. At such a critical ...

In the North Sea — between the United Kingdom, Norway and Denmark — thousands of flies swarmed an oil rig. Engineer Craig ...

On a North Sea oil rig several years ago, an engineer noticed a strange phenomenon. A cloud of insects would descend from the sky and land on the upper reaches of the platform. There were thousands of ...