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 ...

Impressive oil rig includes a detailed interior and took only two weeks to build. A talented Minecraft player online has ...

There's no denying just what a time commitment working on an oil rig can be, nor how isolated one might feel while doing so. The latter in particular comes with the territory at times: The Perdido ...

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 ...

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.

The Department of the Interior is in the public comment period for the "Eleventh National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program." It's been met with mixed reviews in the Outer Banks.

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

In draft rules issued Tuesday, the Interior Department recommended a range of royalty rates for the extraction of oil from shale on 2 million acres of public property in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

Donation Options Search Search Search A large plume of smoke rises from fires on BP’s Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig on April 2010 ... Yet the Interior Department in late March opened ...

Lake Charles, LA (KPLC) - Oil rigs are now required to send progress reports of how shutdowns are going as tropical storms approach the Gulf of Mexico. The Bureau of Safety and Environmental ...