
Offshore drilling platform just off shore in the Gulf of Mexico used for domestic energy production. Ample copy space in the vibrant blue sky if needed. Concepts could include energy production, environmental impact, others.
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Offshore drilling platform just off shore in the Gulf of Mexico used for domestic energy production. Ample copy space in the vibrant blue sky if needed. Concepts could include energy production, environmental impact, others.

Jackup moveable oil platform at sunset in Gulf of Mexico

Construction of Oil Rig in Texas Gulf Coast aerial drone view of Deep Sea Off Shore Oil Rig used for Drilling Oil in the Gulf of Mexico , the Same type of Oil rig that caused the oil spill of Deep Sea Horizon. One of the Biggest Problems of Pollution and Climate Change Today.

Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA - June 18, 2024: An offshore natural gas rig is pictured in Dauphin Island, Alabama. Numerous oil and gas rigs have been erected in the Gulf of Mexico.

Drone Shot Massive Off-Shore Drilling Rig, Used for Drilling and Fracking for Crude Oil and Natural Gas, with Long Beach and Los Angeles California in the Background at Dusk

offshore drilling rig or platform in Gulf of Mexico

An oil platform is a large structure with facilities to extract and process petroleum and natural gas that lie in rock formations beneath the seabed.

An oil and gas drilling platform stands off the shore of Dauphin Island in Alabama in a composite image.

Oil rig in Galveston Bay captured at sunset with overcast skies and choppy sea.

Offshore drilling platform just off shore in the Gulf of Mexico used for domestic energy production.

Sunset view from a oil rig in Houma, Louisiana, United States

Offshore Oil Drilling Rigs in Drydock near Port Aransas, Texas

Massive Off-Shore Drilling Rig, Used for Drilling and Fracking for Crude Oil and Natural Gas, with Long Beach and Los Angeles California in the Background at Dusk

Silhouette of a oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico in Houma, Louisiana, United States

Brownsville, Texas, USA – September 12, 2018: Offshore oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico is a major source of oil and natural gas in the United States. Oil production from US federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico reached an all-time annual high of 1.65 million barrels per day in 2017. Oil drilling rigs are worked on at Port Brownsville and can be seen from the Brownsville-Port Isabel Highway.

Aerial view of deepwater drillship in Gulf of America

Offshore jack up oil drilling rig along the southern Louisiana coast

Drilling rig in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Offshore drilling platforms during sunset in the Gulf of Mexico used for domestic energy production. Plenty of copy space in the sky if needed.

An offshore oil rig in Mobile Bay.

Sunset on offshore oil drilling rig in Gulf of Mexico.

Drone Shot Massive Off-Shore Drilling Rig, Used for Drilling and Fracking for Crude Oil and Natural Gas, with Long Beach and Los Angeles California in the Background at Dusk

A shallow water fixed offshore production platform in the Gulf of Mexico

offshore drilling rig or platform in Gulf of Mexico

As the sun rises over the Pacific, the silhouette of a massive offshore oil rig stands in stark contrast to the golden hues of the morning sky. The rig towers over the waves, its steel frame rising high above the horizon. In the distance, the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles glimmers in the soft light of dawn. The ocean around the rig is a deep, restless blue, while seagulls circle above, their cries echoing in the stillness of the early morning. Against this dramatic backdrop, the rig is a testament to human industry and the power of technology to extract the earth's resources, even in the harshest of environments.

An abandoned oil rig in the Texas Gulf Coast and some faint oil tankers behind it

Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA - May 16, 2025: The sun sets on an ExxonMobil natural gas rig in Aloe Bay, viewed from one of the island's two new boardwalks created as part of the Aloe Bay Living Shoreline Protection Projects.

Industrial push boat pushing a fuel tanker barge in the harbour of Galveston, Texas, USA.

Offshore welders work into the night above the ocean during an installation of an offshore oil platform.

Deepwater Drillship in Gulf of America

Louisiana, USA, 1958. Oil derrick in the Mississippi Delta.

Corpus Christi Dirty Fossil Fuel Refinery Summer Smog. Driving across I-37 you see refinery after refinery the air smells horribly deadly. The Smog gets worse and worse each year. We Must Stop the Pollution , and Start Renewable energy Now. Metal Cylinders Towers of Gasoline and Oil Carbon Polluting Tubes. Texas Refinery.

Galveston, Texas, USA - April 10, 2018: Daytime view of the retired jack-up rig set up in the Galveston harbor next to the Strand National Historic Landmark District

A Tension Leg Platform (TLP) gets installed offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.