Greenpeace activists hung banners saying, 'Shell, clean up your mess!' and 'Stop Ocean Pollution' in a peaceful protest against plans by the company to leave parts of old oil structures with ...

On New Year's Day 1995, a monstrous 80-foot wave in the North Sea slammed into the Draupner oil platform. The wall of water ...

The oil giant’s $5-billion Arctic program was unceremoniously suspended in February before a single offshore well was completed (Shell had planned to drill as many as 10 wells in the Chukchi and ...

After seeing the fish swimming in the ocean directly under the toilet, some people made a note not to go fishing around an oil rig. 'Makes you want to avoid seafood,' a viewer wrote, adding ...

NL Drifting cruise ship moves closer to oil platform Supply boat dispatched to keep watch on Lyubov Orlova The Canadian Press · Posted: Jan 30, 2013 3:29 AM PST | Last Updated: January 30, 2013 ...

Production is shut down at the 220,000-barrel-per-day Hibernia oil platform off the coast of eastern Canada, Hibernia’s largest shareholder ExxonMobil Corp said on Monday, after a temporary power cut ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – Ray Hawco was in line on Feb. 14, 1982 to board what turned out to be the last chopper headed for the doomed Ocean Ranger drilling rig off Newfoundland. Seventeen passengers ...

Coast Guard officials said they received a call at 9:18 a.m. Central time, that the platform was engulfed in flames. Crews on a nearby oil facility reported seeing an explosion on the platform.

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 ...

About the pipeline operator Houston-based Amplify Energy operates three oil platforms about 14 kilometres off the coast of California, all installed between 1980 and 1984.

(Rich Blenkinsop) On April 20, 2010, the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded, burned, sank in the Gulf of Mexico and terrified the world.