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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Hauling our old semi rig down the interstate for days ...

European law says that decommissioned oil rigs can’t be left where they are… but new scientific research suggests that that might be the best place for them, as far as sea life is concerned. 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 ...