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 ...

The 160 workers on Shell's Perdido oil platform have access to a free restaurant, gym and movie theater. Their laundry and meals are taken care of and they get paid pretty well — about $60,000 a ...

Strakes help keep the platform from oscillating by disrupting ... building the spar was a delay in the project ahead of Perdido. The oil market was booming, so every shipyard was busy.

Advanced technology is helping engineers tap into once unreachable deepsea oil and gas reserves. World records don’t stand for long in the frontier-busting business of deep-sea oil and gas, but when ...

said production started at its Gulf of Mexico Perdido oil and natural-gas platform, the deepest drilling facility in the world, enabling the company to expand its Gulf operations. The company ...

Shell has brought online the first of three wells planned to expand production at its Perdido host in the US Gulf, the UK ...

Here's a closer look at the largest of these oil and gas producing workhorses. Perdido is one of the world's deepest spar platforms, moored in 8,000 feet of water. The cylinder spar is a 555-feet ...

Shell , the top U.S. offshore producer, said this week that two of its wells to boost production at the Perdido offshore ...

The $3 billion rig, called Perdido, can pump oil from dozens of wells nearly two miles under the sea while simultaneously drilling new ones. It is part of a wave ofultradeep platforms - all far ...

HOUSTON, July 29 (Reuters) - Shell Oil Co has shut in its Perdido oil and gas platform in the far western Gulf of Mexico because of Tropical Storm Don, a spokeswoman said. The platform ...

The closest platform is Hoover ... Click here to enlarge image The Perdido connection to the Hoover Offshore Oil Pipeline System (HOOPS) attaches the Hoover pipeline to a smaller jumper which ...