Oil and gas rig companies operating in the waters off the UK in the North Sea could face being shut down if they do not convert platforms to green electricity or low-carbon energy.

Massive, offshore rigs the size of skyscrapers remain at sea around the world. Here's why these environmentalists say some should be left alone. An oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of ...

A life usually not see in these parts of the North Sea, where the oil rig awaits decommissioning after 25 years' of loyal service in pumping oil and gas from the ground.

Dallas rig firm lands $200 million contract ... up to $222 million to supply one of his offshore dormitories to a North Sea oil ... should help keep workers happier while out at sea.

As it stands, roughly 12,000 offshore oil and gas rigs pepper the world's coastlines. These platforms typically operate for between 20 and 40 years.

They’re enormous. The BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that exploded April 20 was 400 feet by 250 feet—roughly the size of two football fields—with a crew of 130. Some rigs are even larger ...

Decommissioning the UK’s offshore oil and gas infrastructure will cost the taxpayer £24 billion, according to estimates from HMRC.So why can’t we leave man-made structures in the sea and ...

Environmentalists have long argued for oil and gas rigs to be removed from the sea and to return the seabed to its natural state. Man-made structures, often called “ocean sprawl”, can ruin ...

Oil companies must remove all structures installed at sea, as required by the Petroleum Act 1998 and decision 98/3 of industry body OSPAR, and return the seabed to its original state.

While 10 or more of Southern California’s 27 offshore oil rigs could be closed in the next decade, there’s a push to preserve the platforms’ habitat-rich underwater bases as artificial reefs ...

To change that, researchers turned to the UK’s Benthos database, which records more than 700 surveys of the sea floor surrounding oil and gas infrastructure carried out between 1975 and 2015. Dr ...

While 10 or more of Southern California’s 27 offshore oil rigs could be closed in the next decade, there’s a push to preserve the platforms’ habitat-rich underwater bases as artificial reefs ...