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Oil be on my way! Hoverflies use north sea rigs for a breather on 300-mile trips

They're the hulking hardware of a fossil fuel industry being blamed for climate change. But now scientists have discovered that North Sea oil rigs are being used as migratory stop-off points by ...
insider.si.edu

The Heavy Duty Machinery Used on Deep Sea Oil Rigs

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Extracting oil from the ocean floor requires a deep-sea rig setup with some of the most powerful machinery on the planet today: from motorized ...
NPR

Why thousands of flies are on an oil rig in the middle of the ocean

In the North Sea — between the United Kingdom, Norway and Denmark — thousands of flies swarmed an oil rig. Engineer Craig Hannah noticed they'd stay still on the rig for hours, suddenly taking off all ...
New York Post

Ailing worker plucked from high-seas oil rig in daring Coast Guard rescue, dramatic video shows

An ailing worker was pulled off a high-seas oil rig after suffering severe chest pains, with the entire daring rescue captured on dramatic Coast Guard video. A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk chopper was ...
The Conversation

Thousands of flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs then taking off a few hours later – here’s why

Toby Doyle is affiliated with The University of Exeter. Eva Jimenez-Guri is affiliated with The University of Exeter. On a North Sea oil rig several years ago, an engineer noticed a strange phenomenon ...