On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, triggering one of the worst environmental ...

— -- WASHINGTON—The Justice Department filed its first criminal charges related to the BP oil spill Tuesday, accusing a former company engineer of destroying records requested by prosecutors ...

A drilling fluids engineer manages the design, testing, treatment, and performance of drilling and completion fluids at the rig site to maintain wellbore stability, ensure hole cleaning, control ...

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 ...

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

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

* Alarm could have alerted crew to dangerous gas buildup * Some key rig witnesses decline to appear before panel By Chris Baltimore and Alyson Zepeda HOUSTON, July 23 (Reuters) - An emergency alarm ...

The Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC) has reportedly entered into two agreements to acquire advanced offshore drilling rigs ...