SINGAPORE (Reuters) - What jobs offer the highest pay? Investment banking is up there. So is specialist surgery. But consider this. Slightly over twenty years ago, Johnathan Roberts started work on an ...

I had an interesting conversation last week with one of our readers, Sal from Louisiana, who works on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf. This is certainly a "dirty job" but I was impressed by how these ...

Top-paid oil rig operaters earn more than $89K. June 16, 2010 — -- The oil industry may be a magnet for controversy in the U.S. right now, with crude continuing to gush from BP's ruined deep ...

Kevin O'Connor spends four weeks at a time working on an offshore oil rig. Meredith Wilshere is a Society and Culture writer at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared on PS, Stylecaster, Business ...

Drilling activity continued its downward trend as the rig count fell for a third consecutive week. Oilfield services firm Baker Hughes said Friday its U.S. rig count dropped one rig to 539 rigs, 49 ...