Texas is covered in oil rigs and storage tanks like this, because it’s more expensive to take them down than to just leave them. They can leak chemicals into the ground and water, as well as ...

SHASTA-TRINITY NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. (AP) — Truckers abandoned big-rigs and motorists screamed in fear as they came dangerously close to an explosive wildfire that shut down about 45 miles of ...

However, Seadrill abandoned all eight rigs between 2018 and 2019. One of them, the West Proteus, was bought by Sinopec last year for $103 million and has been renamed the Kantan 8.

Increased offshore drilling activity — especially in China and the Middle East — has almost depleted the stock of abandoned rigs that piled up after the oil price crash of 2014.