Mr. Charlie has seen the up and downs over the years in the oil patch off Louisiana's coast, but this could be the toughest slump of all. Earlier this week, the steel rig stationed on the Atchafalaya ...

PASCAGOULA -- A $10.6 million dredging project has resulted in the first of what Signal International LLC hopes will be much more work, the company announced this week. Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc.

The Wall Street Journal has recently released a list of 200 jobs in the US that rank from best to worst. Oil rig workers were ranked No. 196, just one behind dairy farmers. This may seem surprising ...

The wildcatter may be an iconic figure in state history, but many Texans today would not go to work on an oil rig — even for double their current pay. That’s according to a new survey from TradeSafe, ...

Technology can make big rigs more comfortable and easier to drive. But will new tech improve drivers' jobs, or eliminate them?

Three offshore rigs are already redundant. Eight more will be unused next year. A further six rigs are also in the danger zone. What was a rig boom is now a collapse. News that John Fredriksen's ...

The robot on an oil drillship in the Gulf of Mexico made it easier for Mark Rodgers to do his job stringing together heavy, dirty pipes. It could also be a reason he's not working there today. Under ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A Halliburton employee on the Deepwater Horizon sent an e-mail to a colleague on the day the rig exploded ...