The Interior Department is helping to increase oil production in the newly renamed Gulf of America by 100,000 barrels per day under a policy shift pursuant to President Trump's executive order ...

XOM signs multi-year deal with Helix Alliance to decommission aging Gulf of Mexico wells amid rising regulatory pressure.

Shell halted activity at several of its offshore oil production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico due to leaky pipelines, but said it expects to have them fixed by Friday.

For more than a week, the U.S. Coast Guard has been attempting to contain what it's calling "an uncontrolled oil and natural gas discharge" off the Gulf Coast. The Coast Guard on Friday said more ...

The Gulf of Mexico OCS is a vast area spanning approximately 160 million acres, with an estimated 48 billion barrels of undiscovered, recoverable oil and 141 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

As Oil Spill Spreads in Gulf of Mexico, Blame Game Begins. White House puts pressure on BP, as BP denies responsibility for spill accident. By ABC News. April 28, 2010, 11:37 AM.

Oil Rig Explosion Kills 4 in Gulf of Mexico, No Spill Reported. Hundreds of workers evacuated after a deadly explosion, By ABC News. April 1, 2015, 10:36 PM. 1:34.

A BP oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The company said it has discovered oil in the Far South prospect that it co-owns with Chevron. Photo: Toby Harriman for The Wall Street Journal.

NOAA Fisheries has determined that oil and gas activities in the Gulf of Mexico could drive Rice’s whale to extinction, unless regulators take new precautionary measures. The agency released its ...

The Trump administration is proposing to hold a sale of oil and gas drilling rights on 80 million acres (32.4 million hectares)in the Gulf of Mexico on December 10 with lower deepwater royalty ...

The last major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the 2010 Deepwater Horizon event. Then, a BP-operated platform exploded, causing around 134 million gallons , of oil to discharge. More Gulf Coast ...