Survivors and families of those killed in an oil rig disaster 45 years ago will finally get compensation from the Norwegian ...

As brutal winds lash the North Atlantic, the Ocean Ranger—touted as "unsinkable"—is battling the storm. By morning, the world’s largest semi-submersible oil rig is gone, swallowed by the sea. 84 crew ...

The world's worst offshore disaster was on the Piper Alpha rig in 1988 when 167 men died. Oil production has slowed in the past decade but new discoveries are still being made in the North Sea.

From a control room in Norway's oil capital of Stavanger, pilots are performing drone inspections of the Edvard Grieg ...

Massive, offshore rigs the size of skyscrapers remain at sea around the world. Here's why these environmentalists say some should be left alone. An oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

The North Sea’s oil and gas rigs impact more than the atmosphere. Using over than 30 years of data, scientists found the sediment around nine platforms contains levels of pollutants up to thousands of ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

BP has hired Noble Corporation’s Noble Innovator jack-up rig for a drilling job related to carbon capture and storage (CCS) ...

Guarded by military vessels, it was like “a motorway in the middle of the sea,” he said ... landed on a tiny island and built a drilling rig and a small house for accommodation.