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 ...

Late last year, following four years of construction, Shell 011 Company's recordsetting "Auger" tension leg platform ... first in the Gulf of Mexico to support both a drilling rig and complete ...

A massive oil sheen seen for miles extends from an offshore drilling platform 12 miles off the coast of Galveston, Texas in the Gulf of Mexico on July ... riser at the rig. In the days that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...