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 ...

ALAMINOS CANYON BLOCK 857, GULF OF MEXICOALAMINOS CANYON BLOCK 857, GULF OF MEXICO — The 160 workers on Shell’s Perdido oil platform have access to a free restaurant, gym and movie theater.

The world’s deepest-drilling oil platform is maneuvering into place in the Gulf of Mexico. Shell’s Perdido oil platform will drill for petroleum more than 8,000 feet below the water’s surface.

Shell’s Perdido Development, the world's deepest offshore oil platform, won the ENR Energy Construction Project of the Year award at the Platts Global Energy Awards Ceremony on December 3 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

HOUSTON, June 29 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell has shut in production and evacuated personnel from its Perdido oil and gas platform because of Tropical Storm Alex, a spokesman said on Tuesday.