The U.S. government is facing a backlash after it concluded that the oil and gas industry off the Gulf Coast is likely ...

The rare Rice's whale is further endangered by inadequate protection from Gulf of Mexico oil drilling, the Sierra Club claims ...

Built to withstand extreme conditions and house hundreds of people, the size, complexity, and location of oil rigs makes ...

While shale oil offers flexibility, its growth is expected to plateau, prompting companies to focus more on offshore drilling ...

The main focus of the plan, besides opening up areas in the Alaska Arctic, is on allowing development in already-explored deepwater areas of the Gulf of Mexico. Deepest oil rigs in the gulf of ...

Offshore oil rigs are some of the largest structures found on the water, but are they just floating out there? How do they ...

The largest of them reaches a height of 2001 feet and today we will see how it works. In 1995, American researchers conducted exploration work in the Gulf of Mexico to search for minerals on the ...

Here's why these environmentalists say some should be left alone. An oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Holly Beach, Louisiana. The Gulf is one of the richest deposits of offshore oil ...

Amid flat demand forecasts, political uncertainty, and rising costs, oil and gas producers in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, also known as the Gulf of America, have seen little incentive to green light new ...

The Gulf of Mexico has lower average wind speeds than ... It will be years before giant turbines spin alongside oil rigs off the coast of Louisiana, if ever. Luckily for Lofton, offshore wind ...

Most of the offshore oil platforms that have ever been built were installed in the Gulf of Mexico—more than 7,000 since 1947. More than 5,000 of those have since been removed. In the 1980s oil ...