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 ...

Developed by Gibbs & Cox, a Leidos company, the MODEP concept envisions transforming existing oil rigs into large, self-sufficient island bases. These mobile platforms would be strategically ...

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 ...

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 ...