Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rescue boats attempt to put out the blaze from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig after it exploded on April 20, 2010. The disaster ...

Oil companies offered $300 million for drilling rights in the Gulf on Wednesday in the first of 30 sales planned for the region under Republican efforts to ramp up U.S. fossil fuel production.The sale ...

Here’s a look at oil spill disasters. Spill estimates vary by source. Ten Largest Oil Spills 1. January 1991 – During the Gulf War, Iraqi forces intentionally release 252-336 million gallons of oil ...

A technician responsible for monitoring gas levels told federal investigators Tuesday he never considered using his authority to stop work on the doomed Gulf of Mexico oil rig even though mud-moving ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil companies offered $279 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday in the first of 30 sales planned for the region in coming years under Republican efforts to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Divers explore a coral reef growing on the legs of an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. (Andy Lewis/Texas Caribbean Charters) A ...

NEW ORLEANS — A deep-water oil platform that burned for more than a day after a massive explosion sank into the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, creating the potential for a major spill and underscored the ...

Italian energy giant Eni has extended its use of a premium shallow-water jack-up drilling rig in Mexico and has remaining options for an additional 240 days. Eni has a growing upstream business in ...

Mexico will continue supplying Cuba with crude oil after the US seized Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro last weekend, President Claudia Sheinbaum announced, describing Mexican shipments in part as ...

Early one morning in March 2010, Captain Gary Jarvis cast a heavyweight line into the Gulf of Mexico from the deck of his 57-foot charter boat, “Backdown 2.” The sun hadn’t yet risen. But bright white ...