New research shows how decommissioned oil rigs can become home to fish. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Off the coast of Southern California, a herd of aging oil rigs has an ...

The number of rigs actively drilling for oil in the shale sector found its floor this week after recently falling to pre-2009 ... U.S. Rig Count Finds Bottom, Rebound For Oil Services Sector ...

To compare active rigs with supply figures, the EIA’s estimate for oil production in the United States rose for week ending July 17—the last week for which there is data, to 11.1 million ...

Yet More BP Oil Found At Bottom Of Gulf By Andy Tully - Feb 03, 2015, 4:18 PM CST. ... As much as 200 million gallons of oil were spilled after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, ...

Rigs like the Deepwater Horizon are not moored to the ocean bottom, nor do they pump out oil. They float over a location, holding their position with GPS systems and propellers, and drill wells ...

NEW YORK, May 6 (Reuters) - For the past year and a half, a chart of the number of U.S. oil rigs in operation has resembled a death-defying ski slope - but it may be time to get back on the chair ...

The fall in U.S. rigs drilling for oil quickened this week, data showed on Friday, suggesting that a recent slowdown was temporary, after slumping oil prices caused half of the country's rigs to ...

For more than a decade, Chris Pleasant didn’t want to talk about his near-death experience on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, not even with his wife.. He was a supervisor on the Transocean-owned ...

July 28, 2010 — -- In the chaotic aftermath of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, a poorly orchestrated effort to knock down the towering blaze may have inadvertently led to the ...

Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. said equipment on a rig under lease to BP Plc accidentally broke free during a storm and sank to the bottom off the UK coast. No one was injured and no crude leaked ...