The number of rigs drilling for crude oil fell by three to 439 rigs, the lowest level since October 2021 and down 49 rigs or 10% from 488 the previous June. The number of rigs drilling for natural gas ...

U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating for a seventh week in a row to the lowest ...

Chevron said the technology had not yet been deployed in Australia and had only been deployed “a limited number of times ...

The Helldivers, a tight-knit band of adrenaline seekers that has remained strong for over 60 years, recently held its annual ...

More bodies of executed civil war-era prisoners uncovered under Greek city park ...

By Shanna Hanbury Brazil’s environmental agency, IBAMA, approved a key step that could soon allow Petrobras, the nation’s state oil company, to begin offshore oil drilling near the mouth of the Amazon ...

Oil rigs present several unique challenges for sustainable ... Some caution that rigs are de facto reefs critical to local ecosystems, and credited with reinvigorating endangered species like ...

“There are factions, especially in Santa Barbara, that absolutely despise oil and gas companies,” Bull says. This animosity, she explains, makes the rigs-to-reefs process a harder sel ...

The Gulf is one of the richest deposits of offshore oil and gas in the world, and almost 600 unused rigs have been left as underwater reefs. Dismantling these towering steel rigs, some of which ...

As oil rigs sit for years on end ... Natrx placed 10,000 square feet of the artificial reefs in the waters 4.5 miles north of Grand Isle to replace the decommissioned Hotel SID oil platform ...

Some environmental groups, like Greenpeace, have taken the position that converting rigs to reefs lets oil companies off the hook for cleaning up. Why 'rigs to reefs' is stalled in California ...

"In, for example, the North Sea, an old oil rig will have the same function as a natural stone reef," Jonas Teilmann explains. And stone reefs are in short supply as stones have been removed and used ...