So the massive rigs, weighing around a thousand tons each, are towed into the Cromarty Firth from the North Sea. Here they will pile up and rust until the economy turns its favor toward crude oil ...

China has discovered large-scale integrated clastic oilfield in deep to ultra-deep layers for the first time in South China ...

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.

U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating for the first time in three weeks, energy ...

“ Untangling the Vagus Nerve ,” by Jena Pincott [January 2025], described a 2017 study of people with treatment-resistant depression that found vagus nerve stimulation halved symptoms for 67.6 percent ...

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States fell this week, according to new data that ...

"This morning, Sea-Watch's fast ship Aurora left (the Italian island of) Lampedusa to rescue them. Now the people are safe, assisted by our crew," it said in a statement. Sign up here. A ...