Anglers tend to focus on the portion of their fishing tackle that comes into direct contact with the fish: hooks, artificial lures, flies. Narrowing it down still more, the point of the hook. It does ...

Statoil AS Byford Dolphin drilling rig is under tow again in the Norwegian Sea after being adrift for over 24 hours in heavy seas 140 miles off the northern Norwegian coast. The company also today ...

After raging seas and fierce winds settled down Saturday afternoon, the Coast Guard finally evacuated the crew of a traveling Shell Alaska oil rig that had started drifting near Kodiak, Alaska. For ...

Noble said it had landed crew on the semi-submersibles Noble Paul Romano and Noble Amos Runner and restored power, while tugs were standing by to help moor and restart the rigs. The rigs were closely ...

An enormous Shell Oil offshore rig that had broken free and gone adrift in stormy seas in the Gulf of Alaska for the better part of three days was brought under control Monday, the company said. “The ...

OSLO (Reuters) - A Norwegian oil rig carrying 75 people is in a controlled drift in the North Sea on Wednesday after its tow lines broke loose during a heavy overnight storm, its owner Fred. Olsen ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - An oil drilling rig owned by Royal Dutch Shell Plc ran aground in Alaska after drifting in stormy weather, highlighting the serious risks of working in an offshore region ...

Woodside Petroleum was forced to shut-in production at its Pluto liquefied natural gas project in Western Australia after an Atwood Oceanics-owned drilling rig drifted near flowlines, writes Josh ...

Is there a vehicle that's too big to drift? Hot Rod magazine decided to find out, and so it hired Mike Ryan, nine-time winner of the Pike's Peak hill climb, to take a big rig for a little drifting.

A man driving a sedan died early Friday after slamming into a parked big-rig in Marin County near Larkspur, according to the California Highway Patrol. The deadly crash occurred just before 6 a.m. on ...