The Prospector 5 rig was filmed as it gradually toppled into the sea off the coast of Gabon with a search and rescue ...

THIS is the terrifying moment a mammoth oil rig sank into the ocean with 115 people on board. Chilling footage shows the ...

Prospector 5 rig sinking off Mayumba, Gabon: 110 of 115 rescued, 5 workers missing after the 24 October accident. A state ...

An enormous jack-up rig off Gabon suddenly loses stability and sinks as rescue craft scramble nearby. Watch the chilling ...

One dead, four missing as Gabon oil rig Prospector 5 sinks; search ongoing for 4 others amid no oil pollution detected.

One person has been found dead and four are missing after an oil and gas rig sank off the coast of Gabon. The Prospector 5 platform, owned and operated by Bermuda-headquartered contractor Borr ...

Appomattox, a deepwater oil platform, floats about 80 miles off Louisiana, in the Gulf of Mexico. Run by Shell, it’s one of several offshore operations that oil companies are continuing to invest in, ...

A fire broke out on an inactive oil platform along Southern California's coast early Monday, briefly endangering more than two dozen workers aboard the offshore rig. Emergency crews were able to ...

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Oil rigs are structures used to extract crude oil and natural gas from beneath the Earth's surface, and there are many spread all over the globe. While most people think of offshore oil platforms as ...

Taxpayers will foot the immediate bill to keep an abandoned oil rig off Western Australia's Midwest coast in a safe condition. The Cliff Head oil platform has sat mothballed since the collapse of ...

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