Deepwater Horizon — an ultra-deepwater drilling platform that BP leased from the drilling company Transocean — was completing a new well in the 1,600-m-deep Mississippi Canyon area when a ...

The occurrence of several whale and dolphin species in the Gulf of Mexico drastically dropped off in the decade following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The disaster produced a ...

WASHINGTON — Working to dismantle his predecessor’s environmental legacy, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday aimed at expanding drilling in the Arctic and opening other ...

Offshore drilling in the U.S. got a bad reputation after the 2010 explosion of BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which spilled 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Investment in offshore ...

The ship, Volgoneft 212, sank halfway into the rough sea ... Iraqi soldiers released between 380 and 520 million gallons of ...