Ukraine's Special Operations Forces struck deep into Russian territory in December 2025, targeting oil platforms in the ...

Ukrainian aerial drones struck a Russian oil platform in the Caspian Sea for the first time on Thursday, halting production ...

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Hilcorp’s Spurr platform, photographed last year, has not produced any oil or gas since 1992. (Nathaniel Herz for Alaska Public Media) The Spurr oil platform stopped pumping crude from beneath the ...

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 ...

An increasingly hot-button issue, oil rigs have become the physical embodiment of larger economic and environmental debates, garnering praise from conservative politicians and the ire of environmental ...

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 ...

No offense, but I am amazed at the lack of imagination that exists in corporations and government in Alaska. What a surprise to see a front-page article in the ADN on May 8 about the played-out ...

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Even before I could make out the silhouette of Platform Holly on the foggy horizon, I could see and smell oil. Ripples of iridescent liquid floated on the sea’s surface, reflecting the cloudy sky. But ...

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 ...