The Deepest Offshore Oil and Gas Rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. On Thursday, 28 June 2012 the Obama Administration finalised a proposed offshore oil and gas leasing programme for 2012-2017 that ...

An oil rig and supply vessel are pictured in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana in April 2011. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) WASHINGTON (CN) — A coalition of environmental and Gulf of ...

Wherever it was, Nguyen’s catch highlighted the powerful allure of fishing near the untold number of offshore oil rigs in the Gulf. Whether operational or not, these hulking structures function ...

The offer of drilling leases in December is slated to cover about 80 million acres. It’s part of President Donald Trump’s ...

Any offshore oil rig that extends past 1500 meters is considered to be an ultra-deepwater production facility. ... This rig was first used in 1998 in the Gulf of Mexico, ...

The Biden administration is eyeing chunks of the Gulf of Mexico as new areas to expand its growing offshore wind ambitions. Today, President Joe Biden proposed opening up 700,000 acres off the ...

Offshore oil rigs are some of the largest structures on the ... the floating Perdido platform in the Gulf of Mexico can access the ocean floor at an amazing depth of 8,000 feet below the surface ...

Oil production in the Gulf of Mexico fell for several years after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion caused the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. But the gulf’s oil output has been ...

The Trump administration is proposing to hold a sale of oil and gas drilling rights on 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico ...

Offshore wind energy is a major source of power in China, the UK and Germany, but there are only 19 turbines spinning off American shores. But three more projects under construction are on track ...

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.

Gulf of Mexico oil and gas production is almost fully restored following hurricane Francine, a statement posted on the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement’s (BSEE) website on Monday ...