The Environmentally-Friendly Oil Platform

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  June 19th at 06:20 PM  | 

There are some 3,800 fixed platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, many of them past their useful lives. By law, operators are required to remove any structures at the end of the productive life of a lease. But as it turns out, to marine flora and fauna, a platform is an artificial reef. Divers and sport fishermen well know the richness and diversity of marine | Read More »