Offshore wind energy is a major source of power in China, the UK and Germany, but there are only 19 turbines spinning off American shores. But three more projects under construction are on track ...

April 20, 2025, marked the 15th anniversary of what is known as the Deepwater Horizon disaster, when an oil rig operated by BP Exploration & Production exploded and sank in the Macondo prospect ...

An appeals court has closed the book on a case involving NOAA Fisheries’ analysis of the environmental risks of offshore oil and gas development in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Interior Department forged ahead Wednesday with the Trump administration’s offshore oil and gas agenda by announcing a planned lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico.

Two of the offshore drillers with a big exposure to Mexico's financially-troubled national oil company are encouraged that their rigs are back to work and overdue invoices are being paid. Borr ...

Early on June 29, 1942, the 8,032-ton British steam tanker HMS Empire Mica cruised east through calm waters toward Key West, Florida, where it planned to join a convoy bound for the United Kingdom.

Shell Offshore Inc. and Shell Pipeline Company (SPLC), subsidiaries of Shell plc, have signed an agreement to increase their stake in the Ursa platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

Oil output from the U.S. Gulf could reach up to 2.4 million barrels per day (bpd), up from the current level of roughly 1.8 million bpd, said Erik Milito, head of the U.S. National Ocean ...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster on April 20, 2010, was the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, releasing an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over nearly three ...