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 ...

Kailem Donovan, 37, from Middlesborough, England, works on oil rigs in the North and Baltic seas. Donovan works 12-hour shifts but gets three weeks of holiday every three weeks working on the rig. He ...

There's no denying just what a time commitment working on an oil rig can be, nor how isolated one might feel while doing so. The latter in particular comes with the territory at times: The Perdido oil ...

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has issued five-year extensions for permits for a Louisiana company to operate a wildcat oil rig along the environmentally fragile Apalachicola River ...

SINGAPORE, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Singaporean conglomerate Keppel Corp said on Thursday its struggling offshore and marine (O&M) segment will exit the rig-building business and shift its focus to ...