while Seoul raises concerns over unilateral changes to the status quo in the Yellow Sea. Of particular concern is a support platform that appears to be a repurposed oil rig. A photo recently ...

In contrast, the fixed platform—converted from the decommissioned oil rig—has remained anchored ... its naval footprint in the South and Yellow Seas, deploying numerous small-scale maritime ...

The structures include two floating deep-sea salmon farms and a nearby former oil rig that Beijing maintains ... the Chinese aquaculture jack-up rig in the Yellow Sea's Provisional Measures ...

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 ...

Modern offshore oil ... platforms can reach thousands of feet below the surface of the ocean, allowing access to seabeds that were unreachable previously. Currently, the most advanced deepwater ...

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 ...

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 ...