Offshore oil rigs are some of the largest structures found on the water, but are they just floating out there? How do they ...

Built to withstand extreme conditions and house hundreds of people, the size, complexity, and location of oil rigs makes ...

Kevin O'Connor spends four weeks at a time working on an offshore oil rig. While the views are breathtaking, the loneliness can take a toll on him and his crew.

Most of the offshore oil platforms that have ever been built were installed in the Gulf of Mexico—more than 7,000 since 1947. More than 5,000 of those have since been removed. In the 1980s oil ...

You’ve probably seen hulking offshore oil rigs in places like the Pacific Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico. But from the shore, it’s hard to see how truly ginormous some of these oil platforms are.

Here's why these environmentalists say some should be left alone. An oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Holly Beach, Louisiana. The Gulf is one of the richest deposits of offshore oil ...

Energy companies favor drilling in the gulf because there is a lot of oil and gas there, especially under very deep waters. The number of deep water platforms have grown dramatically over the last ...

U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating to their lowest since January, energy ...

In the summer of 2010, panic spread across the region when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded​ in the Gulf.