The scores of large oil production platforms and many more unmanned drilling rigs clustered in the southern Gulf of Mexico, employ thousands of oil industry workers. Some live on the platforms ...

An oil rig 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico is still burning after an explosion around 9 a.m. this morning, according to the Coast Guard. There were thirteen people aboard ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Hurricane Harvey has prompted offshore oil and gas operators to evacuate platforms and drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico toward a Texas landfall. The federal Bureau of Safety ...

Looking back, Rigzone recalls 15 key news stories that have shaped the upstream oil and gas industry ... damages to more than 50 platforms and rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as onshore ...

“There’s a lot of running room out there,” with enough for expansions at existing platforms and new projects, he said. The oil industry ... on maps as the Gulf of Mexico since at least ...

The platform will serve as a future destination for oil and gas developments in the Ewing Bank and Green Canyon areas of the Gulf of Mexico ... workover or completion rig and the future addition ...

I had an interesting conversation last week with one of our readers, Sal from Louisiana, who works on an offshore oil rig ... on oil platforms in other parts of the world too. Gulf of Mexico ...

An oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that caught fire after an explosion on Tuesday night has now sunk, the US Coast Guard has said. A search is continuing for 11 missing workers after the blast at ...