The scores of large oil production platforms and many more unmanned drilling rigs clustered in the southern Gulf of Mexico, employ thousands of oil industry workers. Some live on the platforms ...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster on April 20, 2010, was the largest offshore oil spill ... into the Gulf of Mexico. Past barbecue joints, a naval base, Baptist churches, white egrets, blue herons ...

BP has made an oil discovery in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico 120 miles off the coast of Louisiana, the UK-based supermajor said on Monday. The discovery at the Far South prospect comes as BP ...

BP BP0.09%increase; green up pointing triangle said it has discovered oil at the U.S. Far South prospect in the Gulf of Mexico at a time when the British energy major is growing upstream ...

Some oil companies have begun evacuating personnel from offshore oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico on a precautionary basis. Companies that have announced evacuations include Shell, Chevron ...

April 10 (UPI) --The Department of Interior on Thursday released an analysis of fossil fuel deposits showing an additional 1.30 billion barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico's Outer Continental shelf.

Past barbecue joints, a naval base, Baptist churches, white egrets, blue herons ... the BP oil spill. Image courtesy of PJ Hahn. The BP oil spill hit marine life in the Gulf of Mexico hard ...

BP has made a significant oil discovery at its Far South prospect in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico. The exploration well, drilled in Green Canyon Block 584, is located approximately 120 miles (193 ...