Discover the incredible story behind the construction of the Petronius offshore oil rig, one of the most ambitious projects ...

Discover the remarkable story of the Petronius oil rig, an engineering marvel situated in the Gulf of Mexico. This video ...

New technologies and regulatory reforms have boosted the offshore industry, 15 years after the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Extracting oil from the ocean floor requires a deep-sea rig setup with some of the most powerful machinery on the planet today: from motorized ...

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO -- A novel but risky attempt to use a 100-ton steel-and-concrete box to cover a deep-sea oil well gushing toxic crude into the Gulf of Mexico was aborted Saturday after ice ...

David Callahan is one of a few hundred people who are deep-sea oil rig divers, and he can’t imagine doing anything else Meredith Wilshere is a Society and Culture writer at PEOPLE. Her work has ...

One of the worst environmental catastrophes in American history occurred on April 20, 2010, when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded. Operating in the Macondo Prospect, a deep-sea oil reservoir ...

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