The Enping 15-1 offshore oil production platform is located about 200 kilometers southwest of Shenzhen, Guangdong province, in the South China Sea. EDMOND TANG/CHINA DAILY In the heart of the ...

A Jackdaw gas platform under construction at a fabrication yard at Verdal near Trondheim. A new report criticises the response to the deaths in 1980 of 123 North Sea oil rig workers. The charity ...

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

ROME, March 4 (Reuters) - A charity vessel has rescued more than 30 migrants including two children who had been stranded for four days on a gas platform in the Mediterranean off the coast of ...

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.

NGO Sea Watch said it had managed to rescue all ... apparently shivering from the cold as the waves crashed against the oil platform's pillars. Over 210,000 people tried to cross the Central ...

ROME (Reuters) - More than 30 migrants including two children have been stranded for three days on an oil rig off Tunisia and are in dire need of help, the Sea-Watch charity said on Monday.

Weather conditions and maintenance of equipment out at sea could make it difficult to ... it would not only have to buy a ship or oil rig but will also need funds for retrofitting.

“After reaching the gas platform ... around 10,172 barrels of oil equivalent per day, according to information on the operator’s website. According to Sea-Watch, a non-profit organisation ...