OSLO, Norway (AP) – Statoil on Wednesday evacuated 326 oil rig workers from a North Sea platform after the structure began to tilt, the Norwegian oil company said. Company spokesman Ole Anders Skauby ...

In February 1982, the Ocean Ranger, the world’s largest semi-submersible oil rig, faced one of the most violent North Atlantic storms ever recorded. The crew of 84 men trusted their floating fortress ...

'It's at the bottom of the sea.' Rescue crews, try to save the sinking P-36 oil rig on Monday about 80 miles off the coast of Macae, Brazil. The Brazilian Petrobras oil company said the rig sank in ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - The world's biggest floating oil rig sank in the South Atlantic on Tuesday, and the state oil company Petrobras said some of the 300,000 gallons of diesel fuel on board had ...

One of the worst environmental catastrophes in American history occurred on April 20, 2010, when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded. Operating in the Macondo Prospect, a deep-sea oil reservoir ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) The world s biggest floating oil rig sank in the South Atlantic on Tuesday, and the state oil company Petrobras said some of the 300,000 gallons of diesel fuel on board had ...

This week's offshore rig review looks at the combined Transocean-GlobalSantaFe fleet in comparison with other drilling contractor's fleets. With the recent announcement of the proposed merger of ...