Hilcorp’s Spurr platform, photographed last year, has not produced any oil or gas since 1992. (Nathaniel Herz for Alaska Public Media) The Spurr oil platform stopped pumping crude from beneath the ...

Scientists and environmentalists are split over whether to fully or partially remove the decommissioned oil platform turned ...

A Santa Ynez Unit offshore oil platform as seen from El Capitán State Beach in southern Santa Barbara County. Credit: Giana Magnoli / Noozhawk file photo Sable Offshore Corp. announced that it resumed ...

In March 2001, the P36 oil platform suffered a chain of failures that began with a sealed tank, untrained contractors, and a buildup of gas no one noticed in time. When the tank ruptured, compressed ...

An increasingly hot-button issue, oil rigs have become the physical embodiment of larger economic and environmental debates, garnering praise from conservative politicians and the ire of environmental ...

A fire on an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico has been extinguished, the owner of the rig said Thursday. The platform, about 100 miles south of the Louisiana coast, exploded Thursday ...

Crews were expected to replace a damaged oil pipeline piece by the end of the day on Friday, a Louisiana port official said, allowing for the resumption of production at seven offshore U.S. Gulf of ...

Waves breaking a mile out to sea off an oil rig in California? Yep. While most folks looked to the conventional, perhaps more XXL-friendly surf spots during the historic end-of-year swell in ...

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The Spurr oil platform stopped pumping crude from beneath the silty ocean water outside Anchorage in 1992. The platform, built in Cook Inlet during Alaska’s first oil boom in the 1960s, was losing ...