Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The oil drilling platform Holly off the shore of California in 2015. As workers continue to comb beaches for tar balls in ...

CHARLOTTE HARBOR, Fla. -- A rusting oil rig perched on the muddy bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, notorious for its vast "dead zone" off the Mississippi Delta, might seem an unlikely setting for a ...

Are dormant oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico hulking, rusty relics that should be removed or valuable havens for marine life that should be preserved ? Melissa Gaskill grappled with this question in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yet Kent Satterlee III, executive director of the Gulf Offshore Research Institute (GORI), believes that he may have come up with ...

Highly specialized mobile rigs are literally walking over the oil patch's collection of aging equipment - tamping down sales and profits in a burst of efficiency that's making some drillers victims of ...

Offshore oil platforms have an immense presence, physically, financially and environmentally. Some 6,000 rigs pump petroleum and natural gas worldwide. But as they extract hydrocarbons from deep ...

A six-year-old rigs-to-reefs policy that was passed in 2010 that was proven to be unworkable may be changed under a new piece of legislation. Sen. Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys introduced a bill Friday ...

Oil rigs might be one of the most striking representations of the environmental damage our fossil fuel mad world wreaks. Still, according to new research from Aarhus University, oil rigs might have a ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A new bipartisan federal bill could expand the Rigs-to-Reefs program, which converts decommissioned oil rigs into artificial reefs in the Gulf instead of fully removing them.

As workers continue to comb beaches for tar balls in California’s Orange County after an underwater pipeline ruptured on Oct. 2, another massive fossil fuel cleanup operation is just getting underway ...

“It’s like a fertilizer hose dumping out into the northern Gulf of Mexico.” Yet Kent Satterlee III, executive director of the Gulf Offshore Research Institute (GORI), believes that he may have come up ...