CAIRO (AP) — An oil-drilling ship capsized in the Gulf of Suez, killing at least four crewmen and leaving four others missing, authorities said Wednesday. The drilling ship overturned Tuesday evening ...

An oil drilling vessel capsized in the Gulf of Suez on Tuesday evening, leaving at least four crew members dead and four others unaccounted for, Egyptian authorities confirmed on Wednesday. The ...

China is going full Jules Verne as it prepares to go where no drill has gone before. As part of its Deep Ocean Drilling Program, the special-built Meng Xiang (梦想号, "Dream") drill ship is gearing up ...

China is set to venture where humanity has scarcely been before: beneath the Earth's crust, into its mantle. To achieve this ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – Television actress Lucy Lawless and six Greenpeace activists have climbed an oil-drilling ship bound for the Arctic to try and stop it from leaving. Speaking from atop a ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Crews aboard two aircraft flew over an oil drilling ship Tuesday that went aground in a severe Alaska storm and saw no sign that the vessel was leaking fuel or that its hull ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Shell drill ship stranded by a fierce storm in the Gulf of Alaska was drifting again Sunday after it broke from lines attaching it to two towing vessels. The lines attaching ...

Brazilian prosecutors plan to file criminal charges stemming from the lease of an Ensco Plc offshore oil-drilling ship to Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras "in due course," they said. The plan ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - One of the drill ships that Royal Dutch Shell plans to use in a controversial Arctic drilling program slipped off its moorings and drifted to the edge of shore in ...

A ship that has gotten approval to drill in the Arctic will stop in Portland for repairs before heading north. Shell Oil secured the permit to allow for drilling off of Alaska Wednesday. Shell can ...

A Shell drilling vessel drifted while anchored in Dutch Harbor on Saturday and had to be pulled away from a beach by tug boats, according to the Coast Guard. Whether the ship grounded was not clear.