I had an interesting conversation last week with one of our readers, Sal from Louisiana, who works on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf. This is certainly a "dirty job" but I was impressed by how these ...

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 ...

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 ...

An increasingly hot-button issue, oil rigs have become the physical embodiment of larger economic and environmental debates, garnering praise from conservative politicians and the ire of environmental ...

U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating, the first reduction in six weeks, energy ...

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