Abandoned Gulf Oil Pipelines

Shipwreck underwater at the depth in Caribbean.

Many underground oil pipelines and oil industry equipment in the Gulf of Mexico are at risk of rupture and leaking due to age, abandonment, and lack of maintenance. There are over 26,000 miles of pipelines on the seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico, and the majority of these were constructed in the 1950s and 1960s, […]