A new lease on life has been bestowed upon an offshore platform that brought over 120 million barrels of oil to the energy market during its lifetime. This decommissioned oil platform shed its previous skin to transform into an underwater artificial reef, enabling it to live on as a thriving habitat for marine life in the Gulf of America, formerly the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GoM).

The tale of Genesis , Chevron ’s first deepwater platform, dates back to its construction in the late 1990s, when it became the first 705-ft, 28,700-ton floating steel spar to house drilling and production facilities.