WASHINGTON, April 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- April 20 marks the 15 th anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which remains the worst oil spill in U.S. history. An analysis released by Oceana ...

BP has reached an $18.7 billion settlement with the federal government and five states, effectively ending litigation stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and subsequent oil spill.

President Barack Obama will host the families of the 11 workers killed in the BP oil rig explosion at the White House Thursday. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis heads to New Orelans Thursday to meet ...

Fourteen years ago, the British Petroleum (BP) Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig suffered ... of Mexico explosion took the lives of 11 people, released 134 million gallons of oil into ...

LONDON, April 14, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - British energy giant BP, which recently shelved carbon-reduction targets to focus on more ...

It's too early to determine what impact April's deadly BP oil rig explosion will have on the nation's seafood and the restaurant industry. So far, precautionary fishing closures means there are ...

However, the project for the BP oil company ... when the rig's various structural and system flaws spark a catastrophic cascade of failures that would create a massive blowout and explosion ...

Offshore drilling is a direct result of the growing global appetite for oil and gas ... giant bubble of methane caused an explosion and fire that sank the rig and claimed 11 lives.