China has built the world's largest offshore oil platform for Saudi Arabia's Marjan field. Chevron's new high-pressure extraction technology signals continued investment in oil exploration. Despite ...

The end of the rig’s production career symbolizes a moment of transition in California’s clean energy economy.

Petrobras (PBR) said Friday it will continue expanding production at the Buzios oilfield offshore Brazil this year, with the ...

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 ...

Efforts are starting to develop the Polok and Chinwol oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico, located 88 km from Mexico's coast. Houston-based contractor McDermott International Ltd. has been awarded a ...

Nine months after a split decision, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors will again decide whether to transfer operating permits to Sable ...

CNOOC has installed the largest and heaviest offshore platform at a field in the Bohai Sea, the company said today, boasting the facility was 22.8 meters high and weighed over 20,000 tons. The ...

A rusted, decades-old oil platform offshore Bolivar Peninsula was leaking enough petroleum last week to cause a sheen that stretched for miles, days after Hurricane Beryl and its Category 1 winds ...

A major Norwegian oil field is taking the industry’s use of drones for safety inspections to a new level, with a permanently installed aircraft that’s operated remotely from the shore. From a control ...

HOUSTON, Aug. 9-- Rowan Cos. Inc. said it will expand its Tarzan-class rig construction program with the addition of three jack ups, bringing to four the number that will ultimately be built. The ...