The world’s oceans are home to tens of thousands of abandoned offshore oil rigs. There are more than 32,000 in United States waters alone, and the United Kingdom’s North Sea hasn’t fared ...

North Sea oil (green) and gas (red) as of 2005. Some of these reservoirs are now empty and could be filled with captured carbon. wiki / USGS / Gautier, D.L For now, the returns would be modest.

So the massive rigs, weighing around a thousand tons each, are towed into the Cromarty Firth from the North Sea. Here they will pile up and rust until the economy turns its favor toward crude oil ...

The price of plugging the rig's wells — a whopping $360 million — bankrupted its operator, Venoco, who promptly abandoned the platform and forced the state to cover most of the decommissioning ...

With thousands of unplugged wells and platforms overdue for decommission, environmental groups seek ways to limit offshore ...

The post An Abandoned Oil Rig Became a Massive Art Installation in England This Summer ... It was transported by sea on a barge the size of a football field and then lifted over the seawall by ...

Aker BP and its partners have drilled a dry well on the Rondeslottet prospect in the Norwegian Sea.Wildcat well 6405/7-4 was ...

Inside crumbling abandoned Soviet ‘floating city’ with 200 miles of roads that is slowly sinking into the sea Watch the video above to see the sorry state of the world's oldest offshore mining rig ...

The once-booming European city now being abandoned as it's slowly sinking into the sea A small city grew up around the rig, consisting of accommodation blocks, a theatre, shops, medical facilities ...

The world’s oceans are home to tens of thousands of abandoned offshore oil rigs. There are more than 32,000 in United States waters alone, and the United Kingdom’s North Sea hasn’t fared ...