The Florida Department of Transportation provided an update on two seawalls it's building to protect A1A in Flagler Beach and ...

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 ...

Offshore oil rigs are some of the largest structures found on the water, but are they just floating out there? How do they stay in place? Here's what we know.

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.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, little has been done to contain Russia’s consolidated dominance in the murky waters ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

As one of the biggest offshore drillers worldwide, Transocean (RIG) is navigating an industry downturn and substantial stock price slump. The company is reportedly discussing a potential merger ...