It was like a holiday camp without the cocktails. Around 100 people work on an offshore rig. As a contractor, I often work at a different rig with every new contract. When you get off the ...

Originally conceived as a bottom-supported drilling unit, semisubmersibles eventually found their true calling. Now, semisubs are the most stable of any floating rig, many times chosen for harsh ...

I had an interesting conversation last week with one of our readers, Sal from Louisiana, who works on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf. This is certainly a "dirty job" but I was impressed by how ...

Top offshore driller Seadrill has been ordered by a Norwegian court to pay compensation to the owner of the deepwater rig ...

Analysts and top offshore drilling executives say that offshore rig utilization and day rates are also rising in a market that is expected to tighten going forward. In one of the latest outlooks ...