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Sable Offshore Corp. announced that it resumed oil production at Platform Harmony on Monday, the 10th anniversary of the ...
Appomattox, a deepwater oil platform, floats about 80 miles off Louisiana, in the Gulf of Mexico. Run by Shell, it’s one of several offshore operations that oil companies are continuing to ...
Standing as one of the largest offshore oil drilling platforms globally, the Berkut platform is a remarkable feat of engineering. Located 25 kilometers from Sakhalin Island in the Sea of Okhotsk, it ...
Here's why these environmentalists say some should be left alone. An oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Holly Beach, Louisiana. The Gulf is one of the richest deposits of offshore oil ...
In 1984, eight miles off the coast of Southern California, the 700-foot tall oil platform, Eureka, was anchored into the depths of the Pacific. For four decades, amidst the constant humming of oil ...
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Louisiana alone has more than 3,000 of the 4,000-plus oil-production platforms in the Gulf off its coast, yet it nonetheless is able to supply almost a third of North America’s fisheries.
A rusted, decades-old oil platform offshore Bolivar Peninsula was leaking enough petroleum last week to cause a sheen that stretched for miles, days after Hurricane Beryl and its Category 1 winds ...
Hilcorp’s Spurr platform, photographed last year, has not produced any oil or gas since 1992. (Nathaniel Herz for Alaska Public Media) The Spurr oil platform stopped pumping crude from beneath ...
The study examined data for 4,216 species collected from 1981 to 2012 at nine oil and gas platforms off the coast of Scotland and England and observed a general decrease in the number of species ...
China has built the world's largest offshore oil platform for Saudi Arabia's Marjan field. Chevron's new high-pressure extraction technology signals continued investment in oil exploration.
The Spurr oil platform stopped pumping crude from beneath the silty ocean water outside Anchorage in 1992. The platform, built in Cook Inlet during Alaska’s first oil boom in the 1960s ...