Try as so many private and government organizations might, switching everywhere on Earth over to clean, renewable energy -- including some strange sources being explored-- is still a long way away.

This week's offshore rig review focuses on the construction trends and costs that have shaped the competitive rig fleet over that last 30 years and those that are shaping it today. We recently spent ...

A winter oil-drilling campaign planned by ConocoPhillips will proceed without interruption despite the dramatic wreck of an ...

Idled oil rigs off the California coast could be back up and running soon if the federal government has its way.

When you think about offshore oil rigs, what comes to mind is what you may have seen in movies — skeletal towers in the middle of a vast sea, some flares cutting through the darkness, and a crew that ...

Oil rigs, particularly the offshore type, are one of the most fascinating parts of the global energy industry. How do they work? How big can they get? Do they float on water? It's not surprising that ...

WASHINGTON -- A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies strategies for improving the reliability of bolts used in offshore oil and gas drilling rigs, ...

If the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management gets its way, 19.88 million acres of Eastern Gulf will be opened to offshore drilling. Eastern Gulf offshore rigs could be as close as 100 miles south ...

It’s back—the federal government’s push to expand offshore oil drilling. As the headline last month in the Long Island newspaper Newsday reported: “Plan for New Oil Drilling Off Fla. and Calif. Coasts ...

The U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources recently held a hearing on the Marine Fisheries Habitat Protection Act, which ...