Nine months after a split decision, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors will again decide whether to transfer operating permits to Sable ...

China has built the world's largest offshore oil platform for Saudi Arabia's Marjan field. Chevron's new high-pressure extraction technology signals continued investment in oil exploration. Despite ...

Sable resumed oil output at Platform Harmony, 10 years after major spill. Production reached 6,000 barrels daily; full restart planned by mid-2025. Environmental groups, state officials criticize ...

Efforts are starting to develop the Polok and Chinwol oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico, located 88 km from Mexico's coast. Houston-based contractor McDermott International Ltd. has been awarded a ...

At least two people were killed and one person is missing after a fire broke out Friday at the Nohoch Alfa offshore platform at the Bay of Campeche, in the Gulf of Mexico, the state-owned oil company ...

Off-shore oil drilling currently accounts for over 35% of the world's total oil production, and that number has consistently risen over recent history. While a majority of oil extraction takes place ...

A Santa Ynez Unit offshore oil platform as seen from El Capitán State Beach in southern Santa Barbara County. Credit: Giana Magnoli / Noozhawk file photo Sable Offshore Corp. announced that it resumed ...

Shell and others say they plan to drill for oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico in part because doing so releases fewer greenhouse gases than drilling on land. By Ivan Penn Reporting from Shell’s ...

A rusted, decades-old oil platform offshore Bolivar Peninsula was leaking enough petroleum last week to cause a sheen that stretched for miles, days after Hurricane Beryl and its Category 1 winds ...

A specialized unit called a jackup rig, at left, drilled a natural gas well last year at Hilcorp’s Tyonek platform, right, in Cook Inlet. (Nathaniel Herz for Alaska Public Media) There are 17 offshore ...

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 ...