NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A lawsuit by environmentalists seeking to block the 2021 sale of Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases auctioned off by the federal ... $192 million for drilling rights on federal ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
HOUSTON, May 1 (Reuters) - After nearly a century, oil output in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico is heading towards ... say the conference's organizers, with drilling, well completions and reservoir ...
An oil and gas drilling platform ... bill April 28 (Reuters) - Offshore drilling leases covering 1.7 million acres of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico will remain in place after a federal ...
MORE: Alaska oil drilling Willow Project ... Fire boats battle a fire at the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon, April 21, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana.
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 ...
