Over 50 migrants were headed to the Italian island of Lampedusa Sunday after a charity ship rescued them from an abandoned oil platform in the Mediterranean, where one woman gave birth, according to a ...

Thousands of abandoned oil wells or platforms dot the waters off Louisiana’s coasts, creating hazards the state isn’t doing enough to mitigate. It’s not that the only responsibility belongs with the ...

Two Louisiana projects addressing post-storm electricity shortages and abandoned offshore oil platforms have won a $50 million contest aimed at funding scientific initiatives in the region. The two ...

Louisiana officials are not keeping track of hundreds of abandoned oil and gas structures off the state’s coast, according to a recent report from a labor organization. True Transition, which ...

WASHINGTON (CN) — Environmental groups petitioned the federal government Monday, hoping to bar energy companies that neglect old well sites from obtaining new offshore drilling rights. “The federal ...

Newport Beach officials have launched a 24/7 emergency drilling operation to repair an abandoned 1920s-era oil well that caused methane and oil to seep into a home on the Balboa Peninsula, prompting ...

The price of crude oil is steadily declining, leading to the abandonment of oil rigs in Scotland and other countries. Disassembling these massive rigs, which weigh around a thousand tons each, is ...

U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and U.S. Representative Maxine Dexter have reintroduced legislation in the Senate and House that would address the growing threat of abandoned offshore oil and ...

Over 50 migrants were headed to the Italian island of Lampedusa Sunday after a charity ship rescued them from an abandoned oil platform in the Mediterranean, where one woman gave birth, according to a ...