The oil industry’s worst nightmare came true on July 6, 1988. The Piper Alpha oil platform suffered a catastrophic explosion, leaving most workers trapped in an inferno at sea. This disaster led to ...

Two days later, the rig collapsed. Oil began seeping into the sea ... of the widening slick and fires were set to try to burn it off the sea surface. Various devices were deployed deep below ...

Languages: English. Salvage efforts to tow the burning oil tanker Sounion in the Red Sea have been abandoned, leaving the vessel stranded and at risk of spilling its one million barrels of oil.

A Santa Ynez Unit offshore oil platform as seen from El Capitán State Beach in southern ... Two men rescue an oil-soaked sea bird at Refugio State Beach following the rupture of a nearby Plains ...

He kept hearing about this secretive city, sprawled like floating, rusting tentacles across the Caspian Sea, far from the ... the world’s oldest offshore oil platform, according to the Guinness ...

A ship carrying crude oil that caught fire after being attacked in the Red Sea could lead to a severe ecological disaster, the European Union’s naval force in the region said Saturday. The Sounion ...

Sept. 2 (UPI) --A salvage operation for an immobilized and burning oil tanker in the Red Sea where Houthi rebels have been attacking commercial and military vessels is about to commence ...

The free, virtual reality experience is hosted by the environmental group Orange County Coastkeeper as a way to educate the public about the thriving sea life underneath Southern California's ...

While the atmospheric effects of burning fossil fuels are well known ... that many pollutants have been accumulating for decades underneath the North Sea’s oil and gas platforms. But how these ...

Fires were burning around the oil tanks of a ship that was attacked by Houthi militants in the Red Sea, but there were no signs of a spill so far, the European Union naval force in the region said.