Sea lions are often spotted resting on the platform during low tide. Photograph by Joe Platko This marine hot spot is one of 23 oil rigs and pipelines off the coast of California, fifteen of which ...

Anchored two miles off Santa Barbara, the rig in question, known as Platform Holly, was built by ARCO in 1966, sold to Mobil in 1993, then sold again to a small Colorado-based oil company called ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH Beneath the tips of the steel oil ... platforms have become artificial reefs. “It’s hard to tell sometimes whether a picture has been taken on a natural reef or on a rig ...

In the oil patch, the roughnecks say ... 22 pilot wells to a depth of about 10,000 ft., the rig will be towed elsewhere. A production platform known as a spar will then be anchored in the middle ...

The answer is Goliat, a mammoth, beer-glass-shaped, floating oil platform that’s set to become the northernmost in the world. Last week the 65,000-ton rig arrived for commissioning near the ...

Oil and gas producers have evacuated platforms and rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and companies are shutting down refineries in the storm’s path. Many had already done so while they were preparing ...

Oil and gas rigs in United Kingdom waters of the North Sea could be forced to convert over to green energy or low-carbon fuels, or either face closure or getting banned from opening new platforms ...

A decommissioned oil ... that platform has to be taken up there with them. So we’ve got to tote all that equipment up to the scene.” A 2-alarm fire erupted on a decommissioned oil rig in ...