Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Divers explore a coral reef growing on the legs of an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. (Andy Lewis/Texas Caribbean Charters) A ...

Off-shore oil drilling currently accounts for over 35% of the world's total oil production, and that number has consistently risen over recent history. While a majority of oil extraction takes place ...

A hundred miles off the coast of Freeport, dive boats congregate around a series of oil platforms where amberjack and angel fish swim between 300-foot-tall pilings covered in coral. Andy Lewis, who ...

When Sandra Ludwig tells people what she does for a living, she usually ends up being the hit of the party. "They're always immediately enthusiastic," says the engineer, who works on various drilling ...

Oil rigs are structures used to extract crude oil and natural gas from beneath the Earth's surface, and there are many spread all over the globe. While most people think of offshore oil platforms as ...