Mooring lines are then used to keep the semisub in place, and these anchors are the only connection the rig has with the sea floor. Eventually, these bottle-type rigs were designed to only serve ...

The 25-1-1 discovery well was drilled by the China Oilfield Services-owned deep-water semisub rig Nanhai 9 to a depth of 4000 metres. It hit 73 metres of pay and flowed at about 1 million cubic ...

A federal jury in Hawaii found a man guilty of a major part in the planning of an elaborate investment fraud operation that lasted more than ten years, in a historic judgment made yesterday.