A fire broke out on the Song Doc oil rig off Vietnam's southernmost province Ca Mau on Wednesday afternoon while it was being ...

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this means the abandonment of oil rigs. To disassemble the machines is not just costly, it also might prove to be a mistake should the market rise again. So the massive rigs, weighing around a ...

A second person died from their injuries in hospital following a fire at a Chevron-operated oil platform offshore Angola, bringing the number of fatalities to three, government and company officials ...

Host Liane Hansen talks with John Konrad, author of Fire on the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster. Konrad is a veteran oil rig captain, and in the book he recounts the life of the ...

Offshore oil rigs have made it possible to collect oil and natural gas from below the ocean's floor, appearing as massive megastructures in the middle of open water. Given their sheer size and ...

WEBVTT CALL SANTA FE POLICE, IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION SHELLY: SEVERAL DOZEN NAVAJO NATION RESIDENTS ARE STAYING IN HOTELS TONIGHT, AFTER A NEARBY OIL FIELD CAUGHT FIRE OVERNIGH RIGHT NOW ...

Russell McLendon is a science writer with expertise in the natural environment, humans, and wildlife. He holds degrees in journalism and environmental anthropology. The earliest offshore drilling ...

Off the coast of California, an oil ... the ocean but harbor more than a quarter of its wildlife. However, Linda Krop, chief counsel for the Environmental Defense Center, says leaving the rig ...

Taber can be found on Twitter promoting the project with zeal. Describing it as "fun" and the abandoned oil rigs as "Mad Max but wet," Taber spoke with Salon at length about what it is like ...