Florida mulls onshore oil as offshore prospects dim. By Shelby Webb | 01/13/2025 06:56 AM EST . There’s no hope of drilling off the state’s coastline right now, but there’s at least one new ...

The White House announced Monday that President Joe Biden would ban new offshore oil and gas drilling along most of the U.S. coastline. The order will protect some 625 million acres of ocean along ...

Long before offshore oil rigs are put together, much less sent out into the open ocean, they're expertly designed. Schematics are drawn up, and in many cases, engineers will take these plans and ...

Any offshore oil rig that extends past 1500 meters is considered to be an ultra-deepwater production facility. However, that's still nowhere close to the deepest man has explored in the ocean.

Oil companies have wanted to drill off the Atlantic Coast since in the 1980s. NC’s Democratic governor and SC’s Republican governor got together to say the answer should still be, “No.” ...