The Prirazlomnaya certification confirms the platform and its equipment are in full compliance with RS class rules ...

Crews were expected to replace a damaged oil pipeline piece by the end of the day on Friday, a Louisiana port official said, allowing for the resumption of production at seven offshore U.S. Gulf of ...

Hilcorp’s Spurr platform, photographed last year, has not produced any oil or gas since 1992. (Nathaniel Herz for Alaska Public Media) The Spurr oil platform stopped pumping crude from beneath the ...

A fire on an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico has been extinguished, the owner of the rig said Thursday. The platform, about 100 miles south of the Louisiana coast, exploded Thursday ...

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 ...

For many years, oil analysis has been a crucial tool for routine maintenance and cost prevention on oil rigs. Equipment failures on these rigs pose significant safety risks and can lead to missed ...

BLACK BAY — The anonymous log, found months later in an oil platform’s living quarters, documented a worker’s tasks: He pumped oil, cleaned sludge and repaired the structure. Then, abruptly: “Shutting ...

Even before I could make out the silhouette of Platform Holly on the foggy horizon, I could see and smell oil. Ripples of iridescent liquid floated on the sea’s surface, reflecting the cloudy sky. But ...

The Spurr oil platform stopped pumping crude from beneath the silty ocean water outside Anchorage in 1992. The platform, built in Cook Inlet during Alaska’s first oil boom in the 1960s, was losing ...