There's no denying just what a time commitment working on an oil rig can be, nor how isolated one might feel while doing so.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...