But the oil wasn’t coming from a leak or some other failure of the rig. Milton Love, a biologist at the Marine Science Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara, explained that it ...

Nov 15 (Reuters) - U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating for the first time in four weeks, energy services firm Baker Hughes (BKR.O), opens new tab said ...

How big are these platforms? They’re enormous. The BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that exploded April 20 was 400 feet by 250 feet—roughly the size of two football fields—with a crew of 130.