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A lost owl had to be rescued by helicopter after landing on an oil platform 180 miles out to sea. The short-eared owl was ...

The Spurr oil platform stopped pumping crude from beneath the silty ocean water outside Anchorage in 1992. The platform, built in Cook Inlet during Alaska’s first oil boom in the 1960s, was losing ...

Oil and gas rigs in United Kingdom waters of the North Sea could be forced to convert over to green energy or low-carbon fuels, or either face closure or getting banned from opening new platforms, in ...

They have been growing on subsea structures for decades but are now under threat as old platforms are decommissioned.

That’s, allegedly, a quote attributed to pioneering media mogul Orson Welles. And while Welles was likely talking about limitations with regards to his theatrical pursuits, the saying is applicable to ...

On a North Sea oil rig several years ago, an engineer noticed a strange phenomenon. A cloud of insects would descend from the sky and land on the upper reaches of the platform. At such a critical ...

A short-eared owl, which found itself stuck on an oil rig after being blown off course during Storm Amy, is being looked ...