but it offers an insight into a aspect of the Gulf oil spill coverage that’s been overlooked in recent coverage: life on board an oil rig — in this case, Shell Oil’s Ursa platform (above).

A map showing the approximate ... It is not the first time the Gulf of Mexico has witnessed an oil spill. The largest ever occurred in 2010, when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, operated by BP ...

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 ...

Shell and others say they plan to drill for oil and gas in the ... operates nine active platforms — including four with built-in drill rigs — in the Gulf of Mexico. On a reporter’s recent ...

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 ... platform in the Gulf of Mexico is ...

Two people were reported to have died on Friday when an offshore oil rig ... Gulf of Mexico, a fire that resembled a sizable "eye of fire" was put out in 2021 close to a Pemex offshore platform.

Skimming vessels are working to contain and recover oil ... Gulf of Mexico after an explosion at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. Six years before that, a hurricane toppled a Taylor Energy ...

There are currently about 1,600 platforms ... the Northern Gulf of Mexico, the only place these critters are going to settle is on a hard surface. The only hard surface is oil rigs in that ...