Offshore development meets energy demand with some of the lowest-emission barrels produced anywhere in the world. The carbon ...

As Big Oil producers start exploring again, the Gulf of Mexico is making a comeback with new projects from Chevron, Shell, and BP Jordan Blum Updated April 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM ...

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.

The Department of Interior 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.

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.

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 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 biggest U.S. oil spill in history put at least 210 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon platform, seen ablaze here in 2010.

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 ...