But the ban had one glaring omission: It didn’t include the western Gulf of Mexico, where the country extracts most of its offshore oil. Reader support makes our work possible. Donate today to ...
Crewboats Inc. rents its boats to major commercial and independent oil companies to haul cargo and personnel to offshore drill rigs and platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Throughout the 1980s oil ...
The western and central Gulf of Mexico, where the Whale project is located, was one of the few areas not affected by President Joe Biden’s ban on new offshore oil and gas leasing. The region is ...
“THE FIRST OFFSHORE OIL WELL: First producing offshore oil well out of sight of land was completed Nov. 14, 1947 in the Gulf of Mexico forty-three miles South of Morgan City, Louisiana,” it say ...