Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling into deeper and deeper waters, where the payoffs can be ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) - An oil platform exploded and caught fire Thursday off the Louisiana coast, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. All 13 crew members were ...

Discover the remarkable story of the Petronius oil rig, an engineering marvel situated in the Gulf of Mexico. This video explores the technological innovations and challenges faced during deep-sea oil ...

The Deepwater Horizon spill remains one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. More than 15 years later, ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (500 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean, the ...

NEW ORLEANS -- A massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is even worse than officials believed and the federal government is offering to help industry giant BP contain the slick that is threatening ...

Roughly 1.1 million gallons of crude oil spilled from a pipeline into the Gulf of Mexico in November 2023 because operators failed to shut it down for nearly 13 hours after their data first hinted at ...

A draft plan that proposes to expand oil and gas drilling, including seven areas in the Gulf of America, has been released by the Trump administration. The plan proposes expanding oil and gas drilling ...

In the Arabian Gulf, some of the region s richest pockets of marine life are forming in unexpected places: around the steel legs of ...

A sheen of oil about a half-mile (800 meters) long and 200 yards (180 meters) wide was reported on the Gulf surface, but officials believe it came from residual oil on the platform. “It’s not going to ...

President Donald Trump’s plan to “unleash American energy” will have a dramatic effect on Alabama’s coastline, with new programs that will almost certainly increase the number of rigs off the state’s ...