Oil rig jobs can seem very appealing in any job market, but there are a number of harsh realities to working on them that ...

I’ve been fishing near the oil rigs off of Santa Barbara a lot recently, thanks to a strong El Niño run of yellowtail (a hard-fighting member of the jack family that visits us along with these stormy ...

February 5, 2009 Think "oil rig" and what comes to mind? Deafening noise, pounding seas, people covered in black muck and ugly metal structures? Perhaps even explosions and Red Adair, but it’s ...

Typically the size of a football field and reaching a height of several hundred meters, the production life of an offshore oil or gas rig is over once it’s drained its location’s energy supply. Then a ...

CHARLOTTE HARBOR, Fla. -- A rusting oil rig perched on the muddy bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, notorious for its vast "dead zone" off the Mississippi Delta, might seem an unlikely setting for a ...

There’s nothing glamorous about working on an oil rig. The day crew typically arrives when the sun comes up, no matter how far the rig is from town. The roughnecks trudge into the doghouse, hang their ...

OFFSHORE LONG BEACH There are 27 platforms off the California coast. Part of the deal when the platforms were built was that oil companies would pay for the complete removal of the immense structures ...

EUREKA OIL PLATFORM OFF CALIFORNIA COAST - Eight miles off the coast of Long Beach, California, the oil rig Eureka, which has stood here for 40 years, is a study in contrasts. From a distance, it ...