Offshore oil rigs near Santa Barbara, California (aerial photography by Drew Bird Photography) ...

Diving beneath the oil rig, Alex had to anticipate when the cormorants would burst through the fish shoal. The birds hide behind the legs of the rig after they plunge into the dark waters, gaining the ...

How the BP oil spill hurt Gulf Coast wildlife and livelihoods. Five years ago, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing 11 and sending a torrent of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.

On 20 April 2010, the oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded. A photograph of an oil-soaked pelican came to epitomise the environmental disaster and helped galvanise the clean-up.

The world's largest platform, the Berkut oil rig in the Russian Pacific, weighs about 200,000 tons. The Petronius, located 130 miles off the coast of New Orleans would be the fourth tallest ...

Offshore oil rigs are like small towns out on the water. Here's how many people you can expect to find out there, and how long they stay before a break.