In this case: life. The oil rig and 26 others like it along the California coast are home to reefs that have grown naturally upon the structures, evolving into valuable ecosystems that support local ...

This week marks the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill, which shocked the US public with images of oil-covered Alaskan ...

Decommissioning the world’s ageing offshore oil and gas infrastructure can be dangerous, costly and complex, and progress so far has been far from encouraging ...

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States slipped this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, after a 1-rig increase in the week prior.

In deeper water, TPWD has turned to old oil rigs. “We have the rigs to reefs program, which essentially takes decommissioned oil rigs and uses those as artificial reefing material once it’s ...

This rig-to-reef method is attractive for oil companies, as it costs around half the price of removing an entire structure. But a 2023 study found that there wasn't yet enough evidence to ...