So the massive rigs, weighing around a thousand tons each, are towed into the Cromarty Firth from the North Sea. Here they will pile up and rust until the economy turns its favor toward crude oil ...

Already, abandoned oil rigs in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico – among other waters around the world – are providing highly valuable synthetic reefs for local marine life. In fact ...

There is also an abundance of sites below the sea where oil and gas has been extracted and where CO₂ can now be stored. Placing CO₂ scrubbers on abandoned oil rigs and sending them out to sea ...

Taber can be found on Twitter promoting the project with zeal. Describing it as "fun" and the abandoned oil rigs as "Mad Max but wet," Taber spoke with Salon at length about what it is like ...

Ever wondered what it’s like to live and work on a massive structure floating in the middle of the ocean? Welcome to the ...

Offshore oil rigs are some of the largest structures found on the water, but are they just floating out there? How do they ...

The price of plugging the rig's wells — a whopping $360 million — bankrupted its operator, Venoco, who promptly abandoned ... oil rig depends partly on its location. In the North Sea, for ...

dotted with offshore oil rigs and wells. Those wells were referenced throughout the event — they’ve muddied the surrounding waters for decades, leading to the $500,000 check in support of mapping and ...

It doesn’t get more off-grid than literally staying in the middle of the ocean, at a dangerous height ... became outdated and was eventually abandoned by the Coast Guard by 2004.

The world’s oceans are home to tens of thousands of abandoned offshore oil rigs. There are more than 32,000 in United States waters alone, and the United Kingdom’s North Sea hasn’t fared ...