“THE FIRST OFFSHORE OIL WELL: First producing offshore oil well out of sight of land was completed Nov. 14, 1947 in the Gulf of Mexico forty-three miles South of Morgan City, Louisiana,” it says.

HOUSTON – A late-season hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico could slash U.S. oil production by 4 million barrels, according to researchers. Hurricane Rafael intensified into a Category 2 storm early ...

It will be years before giant turbines spin alongside oil rigs off the coast of Louisiana, if ever. Luckily for Lofton, offshore wind jobs are already here. This segment aired on October 29, 2024.

Sheinbaum Pardo cited a map from 1607 that refers to the body of water as the Gulf of Mexico in a press conference pushing back on Trump’s name change. The map also dubs North America as ...

China Oilfield Services Limited has entered into agreements with GOIMAR S.A de C.V for the construction works and subsequent provision of services for four module rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.

President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would move to try to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” a name he said has a “beautiful ring to it.” ...

Most of the offshore oil platforms that have ever been built were installed in the Gulf of Mexico—more than 7,000 since 1947. More than 5,000 of those have since been removed.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum responded sarcastically on Wednesday to Trump’s proposal to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico. Standing before a global map at her daily press briefing ...

The gulf's shoreline is about 3,540 miles, more than half of it bordering Mexico's coast, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, although that does not account for the myriad bays and ...

Speckled with oil rigs, fishing boats and beach visitors year-round, the identity of the Gulf of Mexico has always been clear to those who live near it, until it underwent a swift name change ...

Two years previously, when he was on "The Colbert Report," late night host Steven Colbert created a "Gulf of America" fund to help clean up after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster dumped ...

Two years earlier, comedian Stephen Colbert had joked on his show that, following the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it should be renamed “Gulf of America” because ...