It was at a high-pressure prospect in 2010 that a failed blowout preventer in an exploratory well led to an explosion that killed 11 men and sank the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. The final rule ...

The announcement Friday came after three Gulf Coast states asked the Trump administration to intervene. The Interior Department announced plans Friday to walk back changes under former President ...

With near-misses in each of the past two hurricane seasons, the federal offshore safety agency - an Interior Department ... found 88 barrels of oil from the rig polluted the Gulf.

Why it matters: The Interior Department's offshore energy branch is launching the long bureaucratic process to create a new five-year leasing plan. The big picture: Oil companies remain keen on ...

An opinion from NOAA’s Fisheries Service triggered immediate lawsuits from both oil industry players and environmental groups ...

The Biden Administration is tightening safety rules for offshore oil and gas rigs that were rolled ... The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE ...

This new USGS assessment underscores the role of American energy resources in strengthening our energy independence and ...

Speaking of design, as notable as offshore oil rig construction is, it's nothing without solid blueprints behind it. Designing such structures is no small feat. Long before offshore oil rigs are ...

The Interior Department applied new standards ... in use — has risen consistently on Biden’s watch. That said, oil rig counts have not quite caught up to the number in use prior to the pandemic.

An oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico ... Under the U.S. Department of Interior’s Rigs-to-Reef program, almost 600 wells have been converted to reefs since the 1980s. But not every rig is suited ...