They heard a loud bang echo through the platform, then another, and then the entire structure trembled. Within seconds, a cracked weld tore loose, ripping a pontoon free and sending the 10,000-ton rig ...

In March 1980, the Alexander Kielland oil platform capsized in the North Sea after a support brace snapped from a cracked weld that engineers had already flagged as weak. Within 30 minutes, the ...

Richard Charter of Bodega Bay has spent his adult life protecting coasts and oceans, especially from the ravages of energy extraction. When crude oil starts pouring into the sea, his phone tends to go ...

Oil and gas firm Ithaca Energy has extended the stay of Prosafe’s Safe Caledonia accommodation rig at the Captain field in ...

In the high silence of the Andes, where the air thins to a whisper and the earth itself seems to remember older empires, there lies a nation haunted by the sound of waves it can no longer hear. It ...

It once possessed a coastline — a sliver of blue infinity stitched to its western hem like a divine indulgence. Then came the diplomats and the drillers, the wars wrapped in ledgers, and the ...

The town of Greybull sent a disproportionately large number of workers to Antarctica in the '80s and '90s to keep the McMurdo ...

North Shields band Hector Gannet are marking the release of their powerful new single with a sold-out hometown show.

Mr. Andrews’ passion for Remembrance extends beyond the ranks of the uniformed military services, he has created a rope wreath commemorating the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald which he lays at the foot ...

North America dropped two rigs week on week, according to Baker Hughes' latest North America rotary rig count.

North America added three rigs week on week, according to Baker Hughes’ latest North America rotary rig count, which was published on October 24. The total U.S. rig count increased by two week on week ...

The license contains Pilot field, where a refreshed sub-surface description using 3D seismic could help progress the project towards a final investment decision.