On a frigid morning on the Black Sea the sun is glaring into the quiet navigation room of the massive semi-submersible drilling rig Transocean Barents, anchored in Romania's Constanta port.

A video, which has amassed 4.9 million views on YouTube, details how the men lost their lives while working on the oil rig in the North Sea near Norway after a sudden pressure change caused their ...

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Diplomats said Vietnam dispatched up to 29 armed naval and coastguard ships to areas near the oil rig when it became aware of China’s intentions. China moved the giant deep-sea oil rig to an area ...

he said of deep-sea drilling bets ... He added that in shale drilling, operators can strike oil in a matter of months, running rigs at a fraction of the $500,000 per day cost associated with ...

The drilling campaign, in China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, aims to reach oil ... Deep Sea #1 offshore field and the Shendi Take 1 well in the Tarim Basin. China is now building a new ...

RIG's Transocean Barents rig sets sail for the Neptun Deep project in the Black Sea, marking a key step in Romania's largest offshore gas development.

s RIG semi-submersible drilling rig ... It is designed for global operation in ultra-deep waters and started drilling for oil and gas on the Norwegian continental shelf in 2009.