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. In a ...

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 ...

and Japan decided to dip a toe into its deep sea. Entirely new prospecting and mining technologies will be needed. Even the deepest oil rigs reach to only about 3,500m depths, while the valuable ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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.