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 ...

Try as so many private and government organizations might, switching everywhere on Earth over to clean, renewable energy — including some strange sources being explored — is still a long way away.

This pioneering service means that offshore workers can now communicate more easily with friends and family back home using e-mail, instant messaging and web cam. Schlumberger and BT announced the ...

David Callahan is one of a few hundred people who are deep-sea oil rig divers, and he can’t imagine doing anything else Meredith Wilshere is a Society and Culture writer at PEOPLE. Her work has ...

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 ...

The workers named the dog Boonrod, which means "the dog rescued by merit." Oil rig workers have rescued a dog found swimming in the Gulf of Thailand some 137 miles offshore. The workers spotted the ...

One of California’s worst oil spills occurred off the Santa Barbara coast in 2015, when a corroded pipeline burst. The offshore oil drilling operation was shut down but a young Texas-based ...

Once I reach the ocean floor, I have 40 minutes maximum to work. Diving has intense physiological effects on your body, so you never want to run out of time. There’s a technique called burning, or ...