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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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