An Air Force plan calls for old oil platforms to become Sea-based Recovery Stations for the U.S. Space Force and private ...

The number of oil and gas rigs actively drilling in the U.S. jumped by 7 to 558, rising for a fifth consecutive week and its highest count since June 2025, Baker Hughes said Friday in its latest ...

More than 20 oil rig workers have been evacuated after a fire broke out on a platform off the Southern California coast. The ...

BLACK BAY — The anonymous log, found months later in an oil platform’s living quarters, documented a worker’s tasks: He pumped oil, cleaned sludge and repaired the structure. Then, abruptly: “Shutting ...

Appomattox, a deepwater oil platform, floats about 80 miles off Louisiana, in the Gulf of Mexico. Run by Shell, it’s one of several offshore operations that oil companies are continuing to invest in, ...

An oil platform off the coast of Carpinteria caught fire Monday morning, triggering a response from the U.S. Coast Guard and ...

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 ...

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 ...

An early morning fire on Platform Habitat, an offshore oil platform about nine miles off the Carpinteria coast, sent all 26 ...

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 ...