Pirates attacked an Italy-flagged offshore supply vessel in the southern Gulf of Mexico ... vessel for Mexico's oil industry. It had a crew of about 35 when the attack occurred off the city ...
The White House announced on August 4 that 74% of the oil that leaked from the Macondo well has either been captured, burned off ... drilling projects in the U.S., particularly in the Gulf of ...
By Hiroko Tabuchi Ever since the first offshore platforms went up off Louisiana 85 years ago, the Gulf of Mexico has been an oil and gas juggernaut. But decades of drilling has left behind more ...
The US could export its growing production of light crude oil while importing the heavy crude oil the Gulf Coast refineries need. The sight of oil tankers passing each other in the Gulf of Mexico ...
There are thousands of abandoned and unplugged oil wells throughout shallow waters, wetlands, and offshore along the Gulf of Mexico that pose ... Closing off these wells would involve a process ...
Oil and gas producers in the US are required by law to seal and cap their wells once they're finished producing. But a new survey of wells along the Gulf of Mexico ... is switched off and removed.
More than 14,000 inactive oil and gas wells ... collected data from the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement on the 82,000 wells drilled in the Gulf of Mexico. While most of the ...
Wetlands, coastal areas and offshore waters near Alabama, Louisiana and Texas have more inactive oil and ... of inactive Gulf of Mexico wells estimated at $30 billion: Waters off Alabama ...
NOIA President Erik Milito says, “The US Gulf of Mexico energy production sets the standard for oil and gas production worldwide. The world needs both climate solutions and a growing amount of ...
The carbon intensity of U.S. oil and gas drilling, especially offshore production in the Gulf of Mexico, is significantly ... "If you're taking oil off the market, that takes the price of energy ...
The cost to secure thousands of inactive oil and gas wells in the US Gulf of Mexico could top $30 billion ... idle or have been inactive for at least five years in the waters off the southeastern ...
But targeting wells in shallow waters would have the highest impact, a new study finds Will Sullivan When oil ... us or in our food.” The researchers examined data on 82,000 wells in the Gulf of ...
