Can decommissioned CA oil platforms serve as marine reefs?

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Platform Holly is one of eight oil platforms off Santa Barbara and Ventura set to be decommissioned in the next decade, which means the oil wells will be plugged and abandoned. The fate of the structures themselves, however, is undecided.

Platform Holly is one of eight oil platforms off Santa Barbara and Ventura set to be decommissioned in the next decade, which means the oil wells will be plugged and abandoned. The fate of the structures themselves, however, is undecided. Photo by Kathryn Barnes.

Eight oil platforms off California are set to be decommissioned in the next decade, but the fate of the structures themselves has yet to be determined. 

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Credits

Host:

Steve Chiotakis

Producers:

Christian Bordal, Jenna Kagel, Andrea Bautista