The world's largest oil platform model weighing a quarter of a tonne and standing almost ten metres.Before the days of computer-aided technology engineers used the age-old method of creating scale ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Kailem Donovan, an offshore rope access rigger who works on oil rigs in the ... in the North Sea. The platform was knee-high ...

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.

Thus, some folks turned elsewhere to score waves. Like an oil rig platform 1.5 miles out to sea in Orange County. “A day of firsts on so many levels: Canoe surfed the biggest waves yet in the ...

For example, hunting waves 1.5 miles out to sea off an oil rig. That’s oil rig platform Esther, located off the coast of Seal Beach. Dating back to 1965, Esther “is a permanent, fixed base ...

U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating for a third week in a row to the lowest ...

The scores of large oil production platforms and many more unmanned drilling rigs clustered in the southern Gulf of Mexico, employ thousands of oil industry workers. Some live on the platforms ...