While most of California’s 27 offshore oil platforms are expected to be shuttered by 2055, and several have already been closed for good, there’s a looming quandary of what to do with the ...

While most of California’s 27 offshore oil platforms are expected to be shuttered by 2055, and several have already been closed for good, there’s a looming quandary of what to do with the ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California has been a leader in restricting offshore oil drilling since the infamous 1969 Santa Barbara spill that sparked the modern environmental movement, and the ...

Three offshore oil rigs in Southern California are coming back online, a decade after a corroded pipeline carrying oil from the platforms ruptured and spilled more than 100,000 gallons of crude ...

Offshore oil production in both federal and state waters in California accounts for less than 0.3% of annual production in the United States,” Min told the committee Tuesday.

Offshore oil production in California is in decline. In 1995, the most recent peak, platforms in federal water were producing 72 million barrels a year.

Uncharted waters The Gulf of Mexico is the poster child for rigs-to-reefs, with more than 500 decommissioned oil platforms turned into full-time artificial reefs over the past 30 years.

In addition to the oil operations in federal waters off California, there are four platforms and five man-made oil islands in waters controlled by the state, a zone that extends three miles offshore.