Marine scientists Emily Hazelwood and Amber Sparks are on a mission to replicate this conservation success in other parts ... platforms can partly be attributed to the fact that oil rigs serve ...

But as the Platform Holly debacle shows, getting rigs out of west coast ... the approval process and let oil companies keep more of the cost savings from leaving parts of the rigs in place would ...

While an oil rig may seem like a small city, it is actually one giant machine. Everyone will end up learning a little bit about everyone else's job and how various parts of the platform work.

Topside refers to parts of an offshore drilling platform that are above the waterline ... During the exploratory phase of an offshore oil rig's life, the topside is often a bare structure sitting ...

Equipment failures on these rigs pose significant ... equipment, spare parts, and tools to the platform. Image Credit: AMETEK Spectro Scientific Given these challenges, oil analysis is vital ...

To find pockets of oil and gas under the sea floor, energy companies use loud air guns to create seismic maps. Once a large deposit is found, rigs (also called platforms) more than two miles deep ...

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. According to platform ...

Min said mandating the decommissioning of oil platforms would give the state leverage in discussions with the operating companies about how to clean up the rigs and, if possible, convert them to ...

The answer is Goliat, a mammoth, beer-glass-shaped, floating oil platform that’s set to become the northernmost in the world. Last week the 65,000-ton rig arrived for commissioning near the ...

Oil and gas rigs in United Kingdom waters of the North Sea could be forced to convert over to green energy or low-carbon fuels, or either face closure or getting banned from opening new platforms ...