The US Coast Guard dispatched emergency teams Tuesday after a boat crashed into an oil well off the coast of New Orleans, reportedly sending crude spewing some 20 feet into the air. The wellhead, located about 65 miles (104 kilometers) south of New Orleans, was ruptured when it was struck by a dredg
This oil platform was towed from Bass Straight into Corio Quay for service works.
The Ocean Star oil platform museum in Galveston. I always wanted to visit one of these. It’s pretty big but it’s just a baby next to modern ones, which can hold 200 crew, float thousands of feet above the sea bed and drill multiple wells in all directions.
Laid up rigs in the old River Sabine.
seascape from North Sea rig
An offshore oil platform that has been towed into Darwin Harbour for repairs, apparently it will be here for a month or two.
The Kan Tan IV oil drilling platform, undergoing a refit.
This is not an uncommon sight, the Gulf produces a huge amount of our oil and natural gas.
Global Industries, Ltd. announced today that it has been awarded a project from Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) for pipeline work in Pemex’s Ku-Maloob-Zaap Field in the Bay of Campeche. The project, worth approximately US$40 million, is scheduled to begin in August 2010 and be completed by the end of Ma
The rig in the foreground was being towed into the Firth, for laying-up.
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…too bad the rig wasn’t there
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