On crowded platforms, a small army labors to keep up the extraction of fossil fuels from the state’s oldest producing oil and ...

There will be no new offshore oil and gas sales in federal waters near Alaska anytime soon ... culminated with the wreck of its drilling rig, it ended its exploration efforts.

The Trump administration has proposed reopening vast sections of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve to oil development, ...

The Trump administration plans to create a new designated region for offshore oil leasing in Arctic waters off Alaska ... the wreck of a mobile drill rig that escaped its tow and grounded during ...

We’re standing inside a rig near a steadily rotating ... to change plans mid-project. Most of Alaska’s potential oil resources are thought to lie offshore, where moratoriums imposed by former ...

Because Holly is already owned by the state, not an oil company, its transition could illuminate how to evaluate the fate of rigs worldwide based on science, not politics. Most of the offshore oil ...

Offshore oil rigs have made it possible to collect oil and natural gas from below the ocean's floor, appearing as massive megastructures in the middle of open water. Given their sheer size and ...

Any offshore oil rig that extends past 1500 meters is considered to be an ultra-deepwater production facility. However, that's still nowhere close to the deepest man has explored in the ocean.

Alaska’s Arctic Ocean is vast ... that ice is melting. Now picture oil rigs. And roads, and airports, and big ships, and pipelines — where there currently are none. Soon after, picture ...

The Trump administration plans to create a new designated region for offshore oil leasing in Arctic waters off Alaska ... the wreck of a mobile drill rig that escaped its tow and grounded during ...