Additionally, the world's first FDPSO, or Floating Drilling Production Storage and Offloading vessel, was developed in 2009 for Murphy Oil's Azurite field offshore Republic of Congo. This Azurite ...

Developed by Gibbs & Cox, a Leidos company, the MODEP concept envisions transforming existing oil rigs into large ...

Offshore oil & gas is set for a US$54bn EPC boom in 2025, fuelled by subsea tech, floating platforms and LNG projects — ...

Now, semisubs are the most stable of any floating rig ... are chosen for their stability. The design concept of partially submerging the rig lessens both rolling and pitching on semisubs.

Bizerte, Tunisia: An offshore oil platform that was being towed ... The accident occurred on Saturday night when the oil rig broke away from its towboat due to bad weather, a National Guard ...

Designed to assist offshore ... the world's largest oil rigs and should be in operation by 2020. The title of world's biggest ship is difficult to define, but the largest floating vessel currently ...

A result has been a resurgence of demand for offshore rigs and increasing ... the Gulf, but oil will continue to be difficult to transport long distances at great depths and floating production ...

At least three oil workers were killed and others were injured in an explosion at an offshore oil and natural ... aboard the Cidade de São Mateus, a floating oil production, storage and ...