Offshore in Cook Inlet, a ‘silent economy’ hunts for gas to keep Alaska running

17 June 2025, 7:37 am

On crowded platforms, a small army labors to keep up the extraction of fossil fuels from the state’s oldest producing oil and gas basin.... Read More »

How Did The Deepwater Horizon Explosion Happen And How Was The Oil Leak Stopped?

14 June 2025, 5:35 am

The Deepwater Horizon Explosion was one of the most devastating environmental disasters in history, but how did it happen and how was the oil leak stopped?... Read More »

McMaster, Fry call on White House to uphold ban on offshore oil and gas drilling

10 June 2025, 8:45 am

Some of Donald Trump’s closest political allies are urging him to continue a moratorium on offshore gas and drilling leases along the South Carolina coast as the White House pursues its broader ...... Read More »

Bills introduced in US House will end offshore drilling protections

8 June 2025, 3:00 am

A federal bill targeting the reversal of offshore drilling protections, first introduced on Jan. 16, had its first hearing before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.... Read More »

Outer Banks community weighs in on federal plans to reopen offshore drilling

5 June 2025, 9:47 am

The Department of the Interior is in the public comment period for the "Eleventh National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program." It's been met with mixed reviews in the Outer Banks.... Read More »

Offshore oil platform resumes pumping 10 years after Central Coast spill

21 May 2025, 4:45 am

Sable resumed oil output at Platform Harmony, 10 years after major spill. Production reached ... species and communities harmed by offshore oil drilling.” ...... Read More »

Anatomy of the Berkut Offshore Oil Platform: Engineering the World’s Largest Oil Drilling Structure

15 May 2025, 1:00 pm

Standing as one of the largest offshore oil drilling platforms globally, the Berkut platform is a remarkable feat of engineering. Located 25 kilometers from Sakhalin Island in the Sea of Okhotsk ...... Read More »

Drilling could resume where a 1969 oil spill inspired Earth Day

1 January 2025, 10:06 pm

In 1969, another major spill at an offshore oil platform ... The country’s first offshore oil drilling rig was built in the Santa Barbara channel in the late 19th century. By the 1920s, wooden ...... Read More »

Oil sheen seen for miles off Galveston coast, spill coming from ‘inactive’ offshore drilling platform

19 July 2024, 12:59 pm

GALVESTON, Texas – A massive oil sheen is stretching for miles ... pinpointed the spill to an offshore drilling platform located in the High Island 98-L plot. According to the General Land ...... Read More »

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